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Article #10664Re: New Moto chips (was Will NeXT survive?)
From: Dave Carr
Date: Tue, 07 May 1991 12:45
Date: Tue, 07 May 1991 12:45
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In <3403@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) writes: >In article <14720@encore.Encore.COM> jcallen@encore.Com (Jerry Callen) writes: >| - a 68040 with the MMU and FPU disabled >| - a 68030 with the MMU disabled > Following in Intel's footsteps, taking something functional and >reducing functionality to boost the profit margin and hurt competition. >There's a nice technical term for chips with functions disabled by bean >counters: capon. I don't know about Intels crippled chips, but the Moto EC series are different dies than their more capable forerunners. According to our Moto rep, this was done to get more dies/wafer, and higher yields which is reflected in the price of the chips.
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Newsgroups: comp.arch Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!cunews!hobbit.gandalf.ca!dcarr From: dcarr@hobbit.gandalf.ca (Dave Carr) Subject: Re: New Moto chips (was Will NeXT survive?) Message-ID: <1991May7.124504.10758@hobbit.gandalf.ca> Organization: Gandalf Data Ltd. References: <11399@uwm.edu> <JH_ABJF@xds13.ferranti.com> <1991Apr29.144421.19819@oakhill.sps.mot.com> <+=+A+N6@xds13.ferranti.com> <3397@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <14720@encore.Encore.COM> <3403@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Distribution: na Date: Tue, 7 May 1991 12:45:04 GMT Lines: 17