Rumors on new L & N processors

[Dave Wherry]

Currently the L3000 and the top N4000 systems run PA8600 550MHx processors. A couple of months ago I heard out of HP that some new processors were on the horizon. Something in the 6xxMHz range.
Anyone heard any gossip on this?

Dave

[Denver Osborn · Accepted solution]

Not until now ;)

It was recently announced that PA-RISC 8700 processors would start shipping with newer systems the first half of 2001. PA-8700 is designed to run at +800MHz, woo-hoo!

Maybe this is what you heard floating around.

I found the info at http://www.cpus.hp.com/technical_references/8700pr.shtml

-denver

[Vincenzo Restuccia]

See http://www.cpus.hp.com/technical_references/parisc.shtml

[Dave Wherry]

Thanks for these links. 800MHz is better news than I hoped for. Now if these systems would just hit the streets so I can finished some upgrade plans.