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Article #12117Re: Sales Figures
From: Donald Lindsay
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1991 19:02
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1991 19:02
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In article <16586@ganymede.inmos.co.uk> steved@inmos.co.uk (Stephen Doyle) writes: >RISC Processor Unit Shipments (000s) >Processor 1989 1990 cum. >transputer 190 240 540 These numbers certainly re-emphasize the idea that RISC isn't a product, per se. The i386 has actually sold quite badly - if the comparison is by part count, against 4-bit microcontrollers. Speaking of controllers, Ford just made an interesting choice: they are committing to the 88300 family. For those not familiar, Motorola's 300 family contains either a 68K or 88K CPU, RAM, ROM, and specialized options, tied together by a 16-bit onchip bus. I'm pleased to see the family succeed: Ford will eventually be buying 6,000,000 of them annually. -- Don D.C.Lindsay Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!gandalf.cs.cmu.edu!lindsay From: lindsay@gandalf.cs.cmu.edu (Donald Lindsay) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Sales Figures Message-ID: <13468@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Date: 15 Jun 91 19:02:09 GMT References: <16586@ganymede.inmos.co.uk> Organization: Carnegie Mellon Lines: 18