RISC systems pioneer Pyramid Technology Corp, Mountain View, California has boosted the power of its lower-end office and departmental MIServer line for a nominal increase in system price. The new systems – MIS-1T, MIS-2T and MIS-4T are claimed to be 40% more powerful than the existing models, and follow the launch earlier this year of the MIS-12T. Better performance comes from the addition of Pyramid’s 1Mb MegaCache, which the company claims improves transaction processing speed with a better system cache hit rate. MegaCache provides 512Kb of data and 512Kb instruction cache for each processor. Pyramid has also expanded main memory on the 4T and 12T models to 512Mb, using 128Mb memory arrays implemented using 4M-bit memory chips.
