lamaster@pioneer.UUCP (01/31/87)
I call to your attention that Weitek has announced a new chip set which includes several versions of a basic microprocessor, and two floating point units. The processors are described in the Feb. 87 UNIX World magazine in the Inside Edge column. Time will tell, but a 5 MIPS basic processor, with a 64 bit bus option, and 2 MFLOPS scalar floating point performance on the LINPACK benchmark (full precision) (with the 8064), tell me that Weitek deserves a very careful look. The floating point processors (IEEE compatible) also have vector instructions which run at 12.5MFLOPS. Very nice. In fact, very much what a lot of people around here need. The article summary says: "Weitek is going to make it ridiculously easy and inexpensive to build desktop and midrange machines with high speed arithmetic and vector capabilities." I hope so. Hugh LaMaster, m/s 233-9, UUCP {seismo,topaz,lll-crg}!ames!pioneer!lamaster NASA Ames Research Center ARPA lamaster@ames-pioneer.arpa Moffett Field, CA 94035 ARPA lamaster@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov Phone: (415)694-6117 ARPA lamaster@ames.arc.nasa.gov ("Any opinions expressed herein are solely the responsibility of the author and do not represent the opinions of NASA or the U.S. Government")