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- From: kraemer@clri6a.gsi.de (Michael Kraemer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.programmer,no.amiga
- Subject: Re: FWD: Fate of 68080
- Date: 11 Jan 1996 15:57:59 GMT
- Organization: Technische Hochschule Darmstadt
- Message-ID: <4d3c27$n6c@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
- References: <4ctbjv$js6@bcrkh13.bnr.ca> <867.6583T1061T1835@norconnect.no>
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- In article <867.6583T1061T1835@norconnect.no>, kenneth@norconnect.no (Kenneth C. Nilsen) writes:
- > >>I know.. there'll soon be a PPC, but..
- > >The 680X0 line is a dying line anyway. The only computers that use
- > >Motorolla 680X0 chips are the Amiga and Macintosh. Oh, some game
- > >consoles use the 680X0 as well.
- >
- > Yes, and some laser printers just to add it all :-)
- >
- > >Maybe Amiga Technologies should still have a look at using HP, DEC or
- > >possibly ARM. Then again, Amiga Tech could join Apple and benefit from
- > >helping to design PowerPC chips...
- >
- > 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.
- The 300 MHz was foreseen for the 64-bit PPC 620, but the situation about this
- beast is unclear since the projected performance gain is not enough these days.
- Instead a design rework will be done, maybe they call it 630 or so.
- 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.
-