jsgray@watmath.UUCP (Jan Gray) (09/19/86)
From Sept. 19, 1986 Globe and Mail: " MOTOROLA PLANS 32-BIT PROCESSOR [sigh] Motorola, Inc. has struck back in the microprocessor wars, announcing plans for a new chip that packs 300,000 transistors on a sliver of silicon. The company's announcement of its MC68030 chips comes the week after a buzz of publicity over a rival 32-bit microprocessor, the 80386 from Intel, Corp, which was introduced last year and will power Compaq Computer's fast new personal computer. Microprocessors are the brains of electronic devices [sigh]. Motorola, based in Schaumburg, Ill., said it expects to begin making its MC68030 chip in silicon next March. It said the chip would offer twice the performance of its MC68020, which was introduced in June, 1984. The new chip will perform at an average speed of eight million instructions a second. " Any comments from oakhill? Jan Gray jsgray@watmath University of Waterloo 519-885-5921
petel@tekig5.UUCP (Pete Lancashire) (09/21/86)
It's hard keeping mum about such a device. Pete Lancashire ..!tektronix!teksce!petel (new mail path)
DMB@PSUVMA.BITNET (09/29/86)
As per INfoworld,
68030 is structured around the Harvard Parallel Architecture.
Test Chips at $350, productions at $200
dave