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From: tim@crackle.amd.com (Tim Olson)
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Subject: Re: The NeXT Problem
Summary: RISC is less expensive, too
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Date: 19 Oct 88 01:24:19 GMT
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In article <5024@cbmvax.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes:
| >>1) Outdated Processor Technology: NeXT just missed the wave of fast RISC 
| >>   processors.  The 5 MIPS 68030 is completely out performed by the currently
| >>   available RISC chips (Motorola, MIPS, Sparc) that run at approximately
| >>   20 VAX (they claim) MIPS.  In a year or two, ECL versions of some of these
| >>   RISC chips will be running at 40 to 50 MIPS.
| 
| Priced the ~8 MIPS Sun 4 lately?  Or the ~14 MIPS 88K chipset.  How about
| an Apollo 10K?  RISC machines are starting to get fast, and they're even
| starting to get down in price, but these two directions haven't met yet.

It seems to me that most RISC processors are less expensive then their
CISC counterparts.  The Am29000 pricing for 100 piece quantities is

	16MHz	$174
	20MHz	$230
	25MHz	$349

I'm sure that LSI Logic could also show you very low prices on their
RISC chips.  Last I heard, the 68030 was in the $300+ price range.


	-- Tim Olson
	Advanced Micro Devices
	(tim@crackle.amd.com)