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- From: jmason@dynanet.com
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.programmer,no.amiga
- Subject: Re: FWD: Fate of 68080
- Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 03:47:56 GMT
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- kraemer@clri6a.gsi.de (Michael Kraemer) wrote:
-
- >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.
-
-
- The possibility of a 700Mhz processor is not impossible.
- Infact, in theory, using gallium arsenide it could be possible to
- produce processor reaching 1Ghz. That's what Cray Research (? or was
- it another Cray?) were working on before they went under.
-