Alliant Computer Systems Inc, Littleton, Massachusetts, retained by Intel Corp to help with software for the 80860 RISC processor, is to launch its first 80860 machine this month, Electronic News reports. The machine is expected to have up to 32 80860 processors packed four to a board, with each board having 2Mb of static RAM cache for a CPU-to-cache memory bandwidth of 1.6G-bytes per second – implying peak throughput of 400 MFLOPS. Ships are not expected before next June.
