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Ehhhh the MAJC 5200 was generally available in 1999 and I am sure even older designs could be found if we were to dig deep enough. Their market share would also
by chx 2y ago
Ehhhh the MAJC 5200 was generally available in 1999 and I am sure even older designs could be found if we were to dig deep enough. Their market share would also need some digging too.
To quote the announcement: "two VLIW (very long instruction word) microprocessors on a single piece of silicon"
- formerly_proven 2y agoPower and PA-RISC shipped servers, though. MAJC on the other hand > Sun built a single model of the MAJC, the two-core MAJC 5200, which was the heart of Sun's XVR-1000 and XVR-4000 workstation graphics boards.
- kristianp 2y agoMAJC: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAJC https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAJC Why have I not heard of those before?
- p_l 2y agoBy the time of XVR GPUs Sun was pretty much exiting the workstation market, and unlike Elite3D and Creator3D the competition has widened for "good enough" PC alternatives using Nvidia and similar chips