Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!isis!kreme From: kreme@isis.cs.du.edu (Dave Sim's Ugly Brother) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: ASIC-65816 News Message-ID: <1991Feb19.215410.26629@isis.cs.du.edu> Date: 19 Feb 91 21:54:10 GMT References: Reply-To: kreme@isis.UUCP (Dave Sim's Ugly Brother) Organization: Pseudo-Dragon Protection League Lines: 28 In article whitewolf@gnh-starport.cts.com (Tae Song) writes: >About 100Mhz 486s... I think it's suppose to COME OUT in '92... the chip it >self... there were no mention when systems built around would come out. No. Intel is only going to release the chip as a performance/test/whatever. According to Intel, they will market a 50 Mhz chip sometime late this year for clone machines, but the 100Mhz will not be produced in that quantity. >There is some slight good news for the 65816 and CMOS chips... IBM has comeup >with a process to boost CMOS performance by placing a insulator layer under the >CMOS... it was mentioned in a recent BYTE article. Speed improvements were >3 times faster and just silicon CMOS chips... the process involves growing the >silicon on top of the insulator and then etching the circuit. It looks very >promising... I think if similar types of processes done for the 65816 we could >see some vast improvements... most other CPUs ddon't use CMOS so maybe they >won't benefit as much. Another thing is the the insulator also reduces power >comsumption... and CMOS is pretty low power drawing type of circuits as it >is... more as they come availible. That does sound interesting. Howeverm I would think that this type of process would be hellaciously expensive. Expensive enough to preclude any development in this area for the 65C816. -- | kreme@nyx.cs.du.edu |The Coven BBS (303) 777 2911 PCP via CODEN Stalr*nk too| |---------------------|100 Megs of storage. Areas for IBM/MAC/Apple. Games. | | If, several years from now you find me in an airport selling petunias and | | looking lobotomized, I'd appreciate your strangling me. |