At $179 in large lots, Texas Instruments Inc’s new MicroSparc chip (see front) costs no more than an Intel Corp 80486 and threatens to trigger a new price war in the RISC Unix market to match the one in personal computers: with Sun Microsystems Inc waiting in the wings with ultra-cheap Sparcstations using the new […]
At $179 in large lots, Texas Instruments Inc’s new MicroSparc chip (see front) costs no more than an Intel Corp 80486 and threatens to trigger a new price war in the RISC Unix market to match the one in personal computers: with Sun Microsystems Inc waiting in the wings with ultra-cheap Sparcstations using the new chip, the pressure is on the likes of Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp to get ultra-cheap versions of their RISCs ready so that they can rush out systems that will match the rock-bottom pricing.
