The super-cooled 702MHz Pentium II that Intel showed at last month’s CeBit show could make it into products within 18 months. The chip is cooled using KryoTech Inc technology. Meantime, DEC and KryoTech yesterday introduced an Alpha workstation using a chilled 767MHz performing 23 SPECint95 and 25 SPECfp95. NCR spin- off KryoTech has been showing the KryoTech/Digital 767 Personal Supercomputer system since Comdex 1996 when it also demonstrated a CoolStation PC using a cooled Pentium Pro (CI No 3,051). The Alpha workstation uses a 600MHz 21164 which KryoTech cools to minus 40 degrees centigrade to improve performance. It has 4Mb Level 3 Cache up to 1.5Gb RAM, DEC PowerStorm graphics and runs Digital Unix 4.0B or Windows NT 4.0. It costs from $25,200 with Unix or $22,000 with NT in a basic configuration with 256Mb RAM and 4Gb disk. Kyrotech recently won investment from superconducting company Intermagnetics General Corp (CI No 3,377).
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