Fujitsu Ltd May 11 announced two types of servers in the DS/90 7000 series, which are based on the hyperSparc chip from its Ross Technologies unit earlier this week – Ross and Fujitsu jointly announced 0.5 micron triple-layer CMOS microprocessor on Monday. They expect to have 80MHz, 90MHz and 100MHz samples shipping in June and entering volume production from the third quarter. The high-performance desktop server models 7450H and 7550H have performance of 98SPECint92 and 122.5SPECfp92, the world’s highest performance desktop servers, claims Fujitsu. A 110MHz hyperSparc due for release soon will also be incorporated in a new model in the range. The DS/90 7960 high-end server can incorporate up to 20 CPUs and achieves (again!) the world’s highest performance transaction processing speed of 2,000 tps. New software additions included improvements such as easier installation, the ability to start up from a personal computer and the linking to data in a personal computer local network. In addition, a new version of Fujitsu’s relational database, RDB/7000 was announced to provide an even simpler database for small and medium-sized companies, and Sybase was added to the existing list of Oracle and Informix available for the DS/90 series. PowerMedia, a software package that supports connections to facsimile, telephone, images and voice, is supported via the ODBII object database. The operating system on the DS/90 series, UXP/DS, is compliant with the Sparc Compliance Definition version 2, enabling use of common binaries between Japanese applications running on the DS/90 7000 series and those for Solaris. The DS/90 7450H is from $15,480, while the DS/90 7960, with eight CPUs is priced from $564,800. Fujitsu and its affiliate PFU expect to sell 35,000 of the units in the next two years. To date sales of the DS/90 series total 11,000 machines, most of them sold by Fujitsu.