IBM unveils high-end computer server

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IBM introduced its new server, the p690, and claimed that it will outperform competing products from Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard. The system utilitizes the Power4 microprocessor which places two processors on a single piece of silicon and operates in a Unix environment. The units will be priced from $450,000 to $1.8 million depending on configuration and features.

Dedicated Computers, Servers (Computers), IBM Regatta (PowerPC-based system)

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Hands full? Just keep talking and this computer types for you

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IBM's new Speech Server voice-recognition computer requires the speaker to pause briefly between each word and to speak 257 sentences into it. The computer them spends three hours breaking those sentences into phonemes, or short sound chunks. The Speech Server has only a 20,000 world vocabulary; new additions must be typed in. Speech Server copes with homonyms by statistically analyzing the probability of a certain sequence of words; as a result, it flawlessly handles such phrases as 'an aisle on the Isle of Man.' Speech Server costs about $40,000 and can be shared by nine people simultaneously. By the year 2000, voice-recognition equipment may have replaced the keyboard.

Prepackaged software, Equipment and supplies, Voice recognition, Speech recognition, New Product, Computer systems, IBM Speech Server (Voice response software)

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Cray Research to unveil 2nd-generation parallel processor for technical market

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Cray Research introduced its Cray T3E parallel processing supercomputer in an effort to recapture high-end scientific supercomputing market share. The new parallel processor is distinguished by its ability to operate independent of Cray's vector supercomputers. The T3E supercomputer can run at a theoretical speed of one teraflop, one trillion operations a second, and will start at well under $1 million. The T3E is also highly scalable allowing users to increase power by adding processors incrementally to a total of up to 2,048 processors. Orders for the new supercomputer already total $100 million and the company currently has a total backlog of $355 million, despite setbacks in the late 1980s due to Japanese competition and declining demand for supercomputers by the military. The market has rebounded, however, as emphasis shifts to commercial markets.

Digital Computers, Super, Supercomputers, Supercomputer, Cray Research Inc., CYR, Cray Research Cray T3E (Supercomputer)

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