jaro@utecfa.UUCP (Jaro A Pristupa) (09/11/86)
I've got some good news and some bad news. First, the good : I've received news from CMC (the Canadian Microelectronics Corporation). They say that they have received the components from MPC8603 (the CMOS3 implementation in May) from Northern Telecom, and the chips will be shipped within a few days. Now the bad news : Things are not going well with the CMOS1B (5-micron) implementation in May ... the initial batch of wafers did not pass quality control standards at Northern Telecom so the batch has been resubmitted for fabrication. The earliest estimate of availability of this submission is six weeks from now -- somewhere near the end of October. Jaro Pristupa VLSI Research Group Dept of Electrical Engineering