Pinnacle Data Systems Inc has a new line of TurboSparc upgrades, which it says can raise the speed of the Sparc 3/80, 1, 1+, IPC, ELC, SLC, IPX and 2 workstations to 57 MIPS. The company, based in Columbus, Ohio, is using Sunnyvale, California-based Weitek Corp’s 80MHz Sparc Power Up chip as an entire board upgrade – and it claims that it is the only one authorised to do so. Weitek is marketing Power Up as a customer-installed chip for the Sparc 2 and IPX. TurboSparc upgrades come with one year’s warranty, and are hardware only, requiring no special drivers or operating system reconfiguration. Prices range from $1,900 to about $4,000.
