Re: Rocket Chip Info

["Bryan Parkoff" <spam>]

    It is not new since we have discussed in the newsgroups couple years
ago.

Bryan Parkoff

"Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote in message
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>  The Rocketchip was another accelerator on
> a chip that went head to head for a while with
> the ZipChip.  Instead of 4 and 8 mhz, they
> offered 5 and 9 mhz. However, it turned out that
> the people who were developing the Rocketchip
> once worked for Zip Technologies, and Zip sued
> them and won for patent infringement, so the
> Rocketchip was removed from the market.  Zip was
> the only one who had one of these types of
> accelerators out then. Both Zip and Applied
> Engineering had a GS Accelerator on a card-
> -you can find both still around.
> Interestingly, Zip originally announcedd a GS
> accelerator that was supposed to be another
> accelerator-in-a-chip, but it turned out to be
> too complicated to do so they went with the card
> format.
>
> Interesting side point: At one time Applied
> Engineering started to develop an accelerator
> card that incorporated a rocketchip on the card.
> They were just about to release it (or did with
> very few units sold) when they had to stop selling
> it when the above lawsuit was settled. They had
> started to advertise it in all the A2 magazines,
> too.
>
> Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprises };-)
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