ICL Plc has been wavering for the last five months over which Sparcs to use in future SuperServers. Now the 84% Fujitsu Ltd-owned company says it has come down on the side of stablemate Ross Technology Inc’s HyperSparc (CI No 2,735). ICL will move its SuperSparc-based Superserver range over to the Ross chip from the first half of 1996, starting with the 150MHz version, offering it in single, dual and quad-processor configurations. At 150MHz, the HyperSparc reaches 180 SPECint92 and 245 SPECfp92. As well as the HyperSparc makeover, ICL will introduce a line of systems in the first quarter of next year.
