With no firm customers for its HyperSparc, Cypress Semiconductor Corp is sending out semaphores about ICL Plc being interested in HyperSparc, but more interestingly it seems Meiko Scientific Ltd, the UK, Bristol-based manufacturer of Intel Corp 80860, Inmos International Ltd Transputer and Sparc-based multiple instruction-multiple data parallel systems will likely move to incorporate HyperSparc in the summer. It currently uses Sparc 2 parts in its Computing Surface, which comes in scientific and commercial versions, running SunOS. Meiko also had a hand in developing Sun’s low-end Tsunami Sparc, which it says it’ll also be using when the thing arrives.
