Beowulf in a Box

[Simon Thorpe]

>This is to correct a couple of errors in my previous post.
>
>On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Kragen wrote:
>> If I understand correctly, the ARM family is actually specced by Acorn,
>> and several companies actually produce ARMs -- is that right?  Acorn
>> seems to be refocusing on consumer electronics, so this might possibly
>> be something to worry about.
>
>Acorn spun off ARM Inc. eight years ago, and ARM is now three times as
>big as Acorn.  Acorn is a minor customer now.
>
>> Intel is announcing the next generation of ARM stuff next month; people
>> say it will be 500MHz and have hardware floating-point.
>
>It's not Intel; it's ARM Inc., which will be announcing the ARM 10.
>

Absolutely. There's nothing like a bit of stiff competition between ARM and
Intel to keep this one bubbling nicely!!
I think we should give them both a chance, don't you??  I'm sure that
Simtec would be happy to discuss pricing of chip deliveries with both ARM
and Intel ;-)

Simon


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