| >Rumors start to spread over here (through some WS channels)
>that EV6 will be substantially delayed, ie. we will not see any
>EV6 based HW before Q1FY99.
I do not think your rumor is correct. I would try and find product
managers for EV6 based products to get real dates.
>Same sources also say that to bridge this delay we plan to
>buld a EV57, ie. a .25u EV5 which can be clocked to 800+Mhz.
I don't think we have a design team working on a shrink of EV56.
-Bruce
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| I doubt you are going to get anyone to comment publically on
schedules that are over 6 months away, particularly when your
"source" is anonymous.
Product managers can give you any of the information you
need. Don't forget that the product manager that you want
to talk to will vary depending on whether your business need
is for information on chips, motherboards, workstations,
servers, embedded real-time systems, etc.
Even with the current EV6 schedule, whatever that might be,
I would have thought that there'd be plenty of room in
the roadmap to continue to extend the EV5x family while
introducing the first members of the EV6 family. Rather
than listening to Bruce (.1) or I speculate though, you
should contact the product managers and get the real story
from them.
Tom
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| if EV6 *were* much delayed (and I don't know either), then wouldn't we
go straight to EV67 (with either our or SomeoneSung else's .25u) ?
Maybe this make sense anyways, if by synching up a processor and a
newer process, we can crank things further.
re EV57 (my hobbyhorse) - remember the much larger I cache that any '7'
process could allow... several hundred K would do nicely. take a trip
to HP's announco re PA-8500, and ponder that one of our key
'weaknesses' right now appears to be getting enough/fast enough SRAMS
to keep up with our faster and faster clocks. PA-8500 seems to
de-couple HP from the same issue..
whatever, I need faster kit to compete... Where are my 622s ?
AW
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