Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!eecae!netnews.upenn.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!oakhill!hunter From: hunter@oakhill.UUCP (Hunter Scales) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: 68070 board Message-ID: <1802@oakhill.UUCP> Date: 29 Jan 89 00:10:26 GMT References: <4213@imag.imag.fr> <11986@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Reply-To: hunter@oakhill.UUCP (Hunter Scales) Organization: Motorola Inc., Austin Tx. Lines: 30 In article jac@paul.rutgers.edu (Jonathan A. Chandross) writes: >stevel@eleazar.dartmouth.edu >> Does anyone know when Motorola will announce their [68070-like highly >> integrated cpu] > >Never. I spoke with the designer of the 68070 and he told me that Motorola >is totally uninterested in the 68000 market now, and prefers to concentrate >on the 68030/88000 style ultra-high performance CPU's. They just aren't >interested in 68k style controllers for toasters and microwave ovens. > > >Jonathan A. Chandross >ARPA: jac@paul.rutgers.edu >UUCP: rutgers!jac@paul.rutgers.edu This is not true. We have a very large design program that we call CORES which is basically a CMOS 68000 surrounded by various standard functions: DMAC, DRAM controller, timers, chip selects/ interrupt controllers *and* ASIC gates. We fully intend to explore the higer end controller market (from low end laser printers to VCRs etc -- not toasters). the 68070 was not picked up by Moto because it does not have the performance needed for some of these applications. The 68070 is not a 68k inside, it only has one 32-bit ALU that is double pumped. Take a look at the instruction timing versus the real 68k. -- Motorola Semiconductor Inc. Hunter Scales Austin, Texas {harvard,utah-cs,gatech}!cs.utexas.edu!oakhill!hunter (I am responsible for myself and my dog and no-one else)