![]() Meanwhile, the MIPS T5 Terminator CPU, the single-chip successor to the R3000, R4000 and R4400, will tape out around a year from now, with production systems expected some 10 or 11 months thereafter. Single-chip Terminator tapes in 12 months It should register between 85 and 90 on the SPECint92 scale and thereby put the raw power of 18 Cray Y-MP supercomputers on a single chip set. The chip is called TFP for what the MIPS-Silicon Graphics combine trusts will be a monster floating point performance that is currently estimated at 200 SPECfp92. Silicon Graphics is looking to produce a box to take it up against Convex Computer Corp, Cray Research Inc and IBM Corp at its high end and 200MHz Digital Equipment Corp Alphas when they become commercial. ![]() #Silicon graphics windows#Despite MIPS’ Windows NT proclivities, the cost structure on the TFP will likely make it a Unix-only affair. A second fab will be added soon – in view of MIPS’ disastrous Emitter-Coupled Logic flirtation in the R6000, which was manufactured solely by the now-defunct Bipolar Integrated Technology, MIPS says it will now always have at least two sources, for its products. Toshiba Corp will be making the part, which will probably cost just under $2,000 and the boards it will plug into are all ready for it. MIPS Technologies Inc says its multi-part 4m-transistor streaming superscalar TFP chip, the one that’s supposed to go into the high-end Silicon Graphics Inc Power Challenge shared-memory symmetric multiprocessing box by the end of the year, has made it to tape-out after some delays. The name “Silicon Graphics” is printed above the words “Computer Systems” in the upper left-hand section of the system’s front face.Multi-part 4m transistor TFP is taped out The Silicon Graphics Onyx system includes the name “Onyx” in capital letters in the upper right-hand corner of the system’s front face. Some third parties are licensed to manufacture these memory modules, which are available in 16 MB, 64 MB, and 256 MB sizes. The Onyx system uses proprietary memory modules, which are patented by Silicon Graphics. A deskside Onyx system can hold one CPU board (up to four CPUs) while a rackmount Onyx system can hold up to six boards for a total of 24 CPUs. One CPU board can hold up to four R4400 or R10000 processors, and up to two R8000 processors. The system was sold with four processor families, the R4400, R8000, and R10000. The SGI Onyx remains a powerful graphics server that can have up to four CPUs and four raster managers. ![]() The SGI Onyx was succeeded by the SGI Onyx2 in 1996 and was discontinued in March 1999. Because the technology was so new at the time, the Onyx was noted as the main factor for the high price for such development kits (USD $100,000 to USD $250,000). ![]() #Silicon graphics software#The Onyx system was employed in 1995 for development kits used to produce software for the Nintendo 64. The Onyx’s system architecture is based on the SGI Challenge servers, but also includes graphics hardware. The SGI Onyx was introduced in 1993 and sold in two models, deskside and rackmount. (SGI), an American high-performance computing manufacturer that produces computer hardware and software. #Silicon graphics series#The SGI Onyx (or Silicon Graphics Onyx) is a series of visualization systems designed and produced by Silicon Graphics, Inc. ![]()
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