🚀 go-pugleaf

I call to your attention that Weitek has announced a new chip 
set which includes several versions of a basic microprocessor,
and two floating point units.  The processors are described in the
Feb. 87 UNIX World magazine in the Inside Edge column.  Time
will tell, but a 5 MIPS basic processor, with a 64 bit bus
option, and 2 MFLOPS scalar floating point performance on the
LINPACK benchmark (full precision) (with the 8064), tell me that
Weitek deserves a very careful look.  

The floating point processors (IEEE compatible) also have vector
instructions which run at 12.5MFLOPS.  Very nice.  In fact, very
much what a lot of people around here need.

The article summary says:

"Weitek is going to make it ridiculously easy and inexpensive to
build desktop and midrange machines with high speed arithmetic
and vector capabilities."

I hope so.

  Hugh LaMaster, m/s 233-9,  UUCP {seismo,topaz,lll-crg}!ames!pioneer!lamaster 
  NASA Ames Research Center  ARPA lamaster@ames-pioneer.arpa
  Moffett Field, CA 94035    ARPA lamaster@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov
  Phone:  (415)694-6117      ARPA lamaster@ames.arc.nasa.gov

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