Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!iuvax!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uiucdcsm!grunwald From: grunwald@uiucdcsm.cs.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Gemini Message-ID: <3300030@uiucdcsm> Date: 27 Jun 88 02:45:00 GMT Lines: 16 Nf-ID: #N:uiucdcsm:3300030:000:715 Nf-From: uiucdcsm.cs.uiuc.edu!grunwald Jun 26 21:45:00 1988 So, Electronic News and some other rag had articles on the P7 (aka gemini) project at Intel, and the formation of BiiN (right name?), a jointly owned Siemans and Intel company. Any news about this? Speculations? I'll start the ball rolling: why do the articles mention iSC, the people that make the iPSC/2? Admittedly, the article said that iSC would *not* be a Biin group; however, the Siemans effort is towards fault tolerent computing, using multiprocessor systems. This would seem to coincide with the charter of iSC. Also, what's the group going to produce? If the latest Intel RISC ``micro controller'' is an early spin-off, what else are they planning on releasing? How can RISC & the 432 group coincide?