Whatever happened with the Elbrus E2K processor?

[Idontcare]

Remember back some 2 years when the big hubub was the Russian startup seeking venture capital for their Alpha killer chip the Elbrus E2K? Does anyone know what the heck happened with all that hardware stuff?

edit: misspelling

 

[lambasa]

Seemed to me it was all hype. They were in the preliminary stages of design and were making some extraordinary claims to get some capital funding. Does anyone know how close they were to producing a part?

 

[WilsonTung]

The chip sounded too good to be true. I haven't heard or seen anything in awhile.

 

[Idontcare]

yah, they and transmeta came out with outrageous promises about the same time. Transmeta actually had a chip make it to market, but their 1 GHz chip is something like over 1 year delayed with no release date in sight. I was just curious if I had missed something with Elbrus like them getting bought by bitboys or something. oh well, thanks everyone.

 

[WilsonTung]

http://www.realworldtech.com/page.cfm?AID=RWT081300000000

There was a lot of skepticism surrounding the E2K - apparently it only existed in hardware descriptor langauge (Verilog I beleive).

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

<< Whatever happened with the Elbrus E2K processor? >>


Same thing that happened with BitBoys' Glaze3d

-Ice

 

[WildDreamer]

This article over at the Inquirer mentions that a few of the Elbrus chips were spotted over in Malaysia. But their website (www.el2000.ru) seems to be down..

 

[Rand]

Yep, I just checked both their websites.... both are evidently done.