In the US, Hewlett-Packard Co has already got a 100 SPECmark-plus Precision Architecture 7100 engine up and running in the labs with a big fan blowing on it. The thing is just waiting for a home. Apparently Hewlett-Packard’s marketing people are still thrashing out packaging for the finished product – plus a positioning strategy – while engineers are working on a cooling system for the power-hungry part which can be accommodated in existing box designs. Technology based on the 7100 in the labs is known as PCXT, according to US sources. PCXT will eventually find its way into new Snake workstations: expect a Coral II, possibly as the 740 (Coral is the 750) and a King Cobra II which could emerge as the 725 (King Cobra came out as the 730).
