Cypress Semiconductor Corp, based in San Jose, California, is claiming that its new 40MHz 7C601 version of Sun Microsystems’ Sparc microprocessor is the fastest version of the RISC currently available, and rates the part at 29 MIPS. The 7C601 includes a large windowed register file of 136 general-purpose 32-bit registers to reduce the number of load and store operations needed and reducing traffic on the bus. The part costs $900 when you order 1,000 or more of the things.
