Weitek reduces price for SPARC POWER UP; award-winning chip from Weitek offers high-performance upgrade and a new lower price.SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 6, 1995--Weitek Corp. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :WWTK WWTK Who Wants to Know? ) announced today that prices for the award-winning SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill POWER UP upgrade chip will be reduced by as much as 20%. The retail price of the chip, which was $995, is now $795, a reduction of 20%. The price of the upgrade kit, which includes the processor upgrade, plus all the tools required to install the new processor, is now $995. This represents a 17% reduction over the old kit price of $1,200. Discounts are available for volume purchasers. The new prices are effective April 15, 1995. SPARC POWER UP gives users of Sun Microsystems' IPX (Internetwork Packet EXchange) The network layer protocol in the NetWare operating system. Similar to the IP layer in TCP/IP, it contains a network address and allows messages to be routed to a different network or subnet. or SPARCstation 2 workstations twice the CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. performance of the original system at a fraction of the cost of a new workstation. It is certified SPARC Compliant by SPARC International See SPARC. and is backed by all the benefits of SunService's SunSpectrum Maintenance. The latest price reductions are a result of manufacturing economies created by high volumes. "Demand has been high, and we've been able to pass on to our customers the benefits of large-scale, long-run product production," commented John Vidal, Weitek's director of marketing. Product excellence was also recognized with prestigious industry awards such as the "1993 Product of the Year" and "Best Product of 1993" by Advanced Systems Magazine. Products were chosen based on test ratings from the Advanced Systems test center. Weitek Corp. is a leading supplier of integrated circuits Integrated circuits Miniature electronic circuits produced within and upon a single semiconductor crystal, usually silicon. Integrated circuits range in complexity from simple logic circuits and amplifiers, about 1/20 in. (1. that enhance the performance and value of industry standard computers and software. The company's innovative products combine state-of-the-art levels of integration and functionality. Founded in 1981, Weitek is traded on NASDAQ under the symbol WWTK. -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: This news release and other materials about Weitek Corp. and its products can be accessed on the Internet at http://www.oakridge.com. SPARC is a registered trademark of SPARC International Inc. All SPARC trademarks, including SPARC International and SPARC Compliant are registered trademarks of SPARC International. SPARCstation is a trademark of SPARC International licensed exclusively to Sun Microsystems Inc. SPARC POWER is a trademark of SPARC International licensed exclusively to Weitek Corp. Products bearing the SPARC trademark are based on an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems Inc. Sun and Sun Microsystems are registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems Inc. IPX is a trademark of Sun Microsystems Inc. Weitek is a registered trademark of Weitek Corp. CONTACT: Weitek Corp. John Vidal, 408/738-8400 or Oak Ridge Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most Inc. Frankie Borison or Kathy Keenan, 408/253-5042 |
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