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
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