lindsay@gandalf.cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay) (06/16/91)
In article <16586@ganymede.inmos.co.uk> steved@inmos.co.uk (Stephen Doyle) writes: >RISC Processor Unit Shipments (000s) >Processor 1989 1990 cum. >transputer 190 240 540 These numbers certainly re-emphasize the idea that RISC isn't a product, per se. The i386 has actually sold quite badly - if the comparison is by part count, against 4-bit microcontrollers. Speaking of controllers, Ford just made an interesting choice: they are committing to the 88300 family. For those not familiar, Motorola's 300 family contains either a 68K or 88K CPU, RAM, ROM, and specialized options, tied together by a 16-bit onchip bus. I'm pleased to see the family succeed: Ford will eventually be buying 6,000,000 of them annually. -- Don D.C.Lindsay Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute