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From: wilkes@mips.com (John Wilkes)
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Subject: Re: Three-Level Metal
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Date: 22 Jun 91 00:54:01 GMT
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In article <13560@pt.cs.cmu.edu> lindsay@gandalf.cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay) writes:
>
>So, is the i860 really the first? And how many of the upcoming
>superscalars will be three layer?

The MIPS R6000 ECL processor, R6010 floating point controller and R6020
system bus chip are all three layer metal.

-wilkes  <wilkes@mips.com>