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From: andy@topologix.UUCP (Andy Pfiffer)
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Subject: Re: i960
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Date: 13 Sep 89 19:14:32 GMT
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Excerpted from the 9/11/89 edition of EE Times (without permission):

	Intel Samples 80960CA by Loring Wirbel:

	Intel Corp. tomorrow is announcing engineering samples of the
	80960CA, the first member of its second generation 960 family
	of 32-bit embedded processors.

	The company has been talking about the chip and its architecture
	for at least a year.  The chip is aimed at embedded-controller
	applications and can run through two or more instructions per
	clock cycle, giving it a theoretical peak performance of 66 Mips
	(33 Vax Mips) at 33 MHz.

	The new 960CA will take an aggressive price/performance stab at
	competitors, carrying a tag of $325 for the processor in large
	OEM quantities.

	...

	Wind River Systems and Ready Systems will be major participants
	in the unveiling, announcing ports of their real-time operating
	systems, VXWorks and VRTX32.

Also in the same issue:

	Marked Down Transputer

	SGS-Thomson has decided to slash the going price of its 32-bit
	Transputer to a mere $2 per 1 Mips - one-third that of its former
	basement-level entry.

	...

	The move also demonstrates just how serious the company is about
	driving its microprocessor, still being sold under the Inmos name,
	into high-volume embedded control applications.

	...

	The strategy hopes to attract the attention of potential users who,
	believing the part is suited only to real-time computations in
	parallel-processing environments, have been reluctant to consider
	the Transputer for high-voulme embedded control applications.


Spelling errors, paragraphing, etc. are mine.

The new 860 and the newer 960 were developed about the same time and
share many of the wins/tradeoffs found in each (dual instruction mode,
etc.).

There was also mention of a 2 link T425/T800 compatible 32-bit Transputer
with 2K of on-chip RAM in the Transputer-related article.

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