76 million transistor chip

From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Wed Mar 15 2000 - 20:08:39 MST


Holy schlaMOLY here it comes:

PixelFusion Verifies 76 Million-Transistor Chip Using Mentor Graphics
Deep Submicron Tools

    BRISTOL, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 15, 2000--Mentor Graphics
Corp. today
announced that PixelFusion, Ltd., has adopted and successfully deployed
a comprehensive set of
deep submicron (DSM) Mentor Graphics tools to design and verify the
computer industry's most
complex general-purpose chip design to date -- the FUZION 150

About FUZION 150

    PixelFusion's FUZION 150 is a 0.25 micron, single-chip, massively
parallel SIMD
(Single Instruction Multiple Data) processor with 24 megabits of on-chip
embedded
DRAM. This ultra high-performance chip delivers more than 1.5 trillion
operations
or 3 billion floating-point operations per second, along with 600
gigabytes per second
of on-chip memory bandwidth. As a programmable, general-purpose
computing device,
the FUZION 150 offers maximum performance, features and flexibility to
markets ranging
from graphics and video to network processing.PixelFusion's breakthrough
FUZION
architecture is bringing supercomputer-like performance to today's
high-end computing.

About PixelFusion

    PixelFusion, a fabless semiconductor company, has developed FUZION,
a breakthrough
chip architecture that the company will use to achieve
performanceleadership and create a
sustainable business through several generations of silicon processes.
The company was founded
in 1997 by leaders in massively parallel computing and high-performance
graphics. PixelFusion's
headquarters and R&D facilities are located in Bristol, England, with a
sales and marketing operation
in Silicon Valley and an R&D center in North Carolina. For additional
information, contact
PixelFusion in the UK at +44 (0) 1454 878740, email , or visit

http://www.pixelfusion.com



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