Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!emory!ogicse!verdix!bit!jayl From: jayl@bit.UUCP (Jay Lessert) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Misc. comments about MIPSCo Summary: BIT fully committed to R6000 development Message-ID: <135@bit.UUCP> Date: 29 Oct 90 20:29:46 GMT References: <1536@ftc.framentec.fr> <1990Oct19.120218.9450@canterbury.ac.nz> <15497@hydra.gatech.EDU> <2176@lupine.NCD.COM> <42310@mips.mips.COM> Reply-To: jayl@bit.UUCP (Jay Lessert) Organization: BIT Portland, OR Lines: 22 In article pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes: >mash> As is well-known, we are working hard with our colleagues at >mash> B.I.T. to improve yields on the ECL chips. > >In the latest issue of Byte I read that BIT have *dumped* the R6000 >development. Am I hallucinating? The justification given was that it is >expected that CMOS chips will soon reach the same speeds, and the window >of opportunity for an ECL based CPU has been reestimated from half a >dozen years to one or two, which is too little. Too bad, because I love >ECL. BIT remains fully committed to the success of the R6000 chipset, MIPS, and MIPS OEM's. I haven't read the item in Byte you reference (what issue?) but personally, I place Byte's reliability on such matters somewhere much lower than EE Times and somewhat above the National Enquirer... :-) We love ECL, too! -- Jay Lessert {ogicse,sun,decwrl}!bit!jayl Bipolar Integrated Technology, Inc. 503-629-5490 (fax)503-690-1498