In the wake of the Sun Microsystems Inc-Fujitsu Ltd deal to co-ordinate their Sparc efforts and development of a single roadmap, the Microprocessor Report believes there will be no follow-ons to what it calls the HyperSparc-2, which is planned for the second quarter of 1995 at 150 SPECint92. Or for that matter to HaL Computer Ltd’s PM-1 processor – the first time we’ve ever seen the mystery chip given a name – which is now expected to deliver 225 SPECint92 in the first quarter of next year – finally. Instead, the publication expects Fujitsu design teams will probably develop follow-ons to the Sun processors. It reckons that HyperSparc originator Ross Technology and HaL have spent about $100m developing rival processors to Sun’s.
