Sparcsystems builder Tatung Science & Technology Inc is in final negotiations with Sun Microsystems Inc’s Sparc Technology Business for UltraSparc boards it hopes to have in its possession by the third quarter at the latest. Its aim is to have UltraSparc workstations out before year-end. It still cannot get Sparc Technology Business to license the chip set it needs to build its own version of Sun’s high-end ZX graphics subsystem, neither will Sun license its chip sets for the low-end 24-bit three-dimensional colour graphics system. Tatung’s PowerPC boxes are due out in the second half of the year.
