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- From: dave.haynie@scala.com (Dave Haynie)
- Subject: Re: FWD: Fate of 68080
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- Message-ID: <1996Jan15.222923.19893@scala.scala.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 22:29:23 GMT
- Reply-To: dave.haynie@scala.com (Dave Haynie)
- References: <4ctbjv$js6@bcrkh13.bnr.ca> <867.6583T1061T1835@norconnect.no> <4d3c27$n6c@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
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- In <4d3c27$n6c@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>, kraemer@clri6a.gsi.de (Michael Kraemer) writes:
- >In article <867.6583T1061T1835@norconnect.no>, kenneth@norconnect.no (Kenneth C. Nilsen) writes:
-
- >> >Maybe Amiga Technologies should still have a look at using HP, DEC or
- >> >possibly ARM.
-
- Fairly pointless; these are either workstation or specialty chips, not
- really on target for personal computers. And there's no volume
- infrastructure for anything but possible the ARM (or maybe StrongARM),
- and that's only if PDAs become more than a niche product, and the ARM
- is successful in that market. Neither is a certainty. What is certain
- is that the PowerPC has the best chance at competing against the 80x86
- for the desktop.
-
- >> I heard some rumours about a 700MHz PowerPC. This has very little backing,
- >> but is it true or not? I know there have been difficulties to get more than
- >> 300MHz so this sounds not too probable. Anyone?
-
- >The current/near future top-of-the-line is the PPC 604@150 MHz.
-
- That's from Motorola and/or IBM. This is an independent project, from
- a startup company (their name escapes me at the moment). I think
- Motorola and IBM may be shooting for 200MHz with the 604e, possibly
- one of the reasons the 620 has been deemed too slow.
-
- >Anyway the race for MHz sounds silly to me, since the memory can't keep pace
- >with it, except for large (and expensive) caches. 700 MHz is science fiction
- >I'd say.
-
- They're shooting for around 400MHz for the first generation chips,
- according to what I've read (EE Times). The technology is a new BiCMOS
- process, which they claim is unique. They do appear to have several
- patents on it, anyway. Intel uses BiCMOS in a very limited way in
- Pentium and PentiumPro chips, but this will be using a whole lot more
- Bipolar logic. If it works, of course. One of the claimed advances is
- a way of dealing with the heat problems generally associated with
- Bipolar logic.
-
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