Santa Barbara, California-based Superconductor Technologies Inc, which last year announced that it was working with Sun Microsystems Inc, Ross Technology Corp and nChip Corp to build the world’s first high-speed cryogenically-cooled workstation (CI No 2,514), says it is now negotiating with a company that is interested in retrofitting slower, older-version workstations with the cooling technology in order to increase their speed without losing software compatibility, and that a major computer manufacturer is discussing a deal that would lead to implementation of the cooling technology in new workstations as early as 1997. Superconductor Technologies reckons that there are currently no other companies working on cryogenically-cooled workstations and says it is on schedule to ramp up production of the workstation cooling systems next year.
