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Title: Motorola Unveils Next Generation Family of 32-Bit Microcontrollers
Post by: System on October 21, 2002, 02:47:36 PM

And another VERY interesting news article about Motorola.
Follow this link (http://www.motorola.com/mediacenter/news/detail/0,1958,1875_1498_23,00.html).

Title: Re: Motorola Unveils Next Generation Family of 32-Bit Microc
Post by: blubbe on October 21, 2002, 03:56:53 PM

Yeah, sici, VERY interesting. VERY interesting.

Title: Re: Motorola Unveils Next Generation Family of 32-Bit Microc
Post by: olegil on October 21, 2002, 04:03:36 PM

Totally uninteresting unless you're doing something embedded, I would say (hint, only 7-series and possibly 8-series chips are any good for desktops. 8 because that's where the G5 is surfacing...)

Title: Re: Motorola Unveils Next Generation Family of 32-Bit Microc
Post by: System on October 21, 2002, 04:23:38 PM

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- Up to 300 MHz core speed

And people were complaining about the G3 @ 600MHz :lol:

Title: Re: Motorola Unveils Next Generation Family of 32-Bit Microc
Post by: olegil on October 21, 2002, 05:15:55 PM

Well, to be fair:
It's an embedded chip with SIMD and a few other nifty things. 300MHz core is plenty for a LOT of applications (hey, I'm running an embedded 486 here, stop laughing :-) )

Title: Re: Motorola Unveils Next Generation Family of 32-Bit Microc
Post by: asian1 on October 21, 2002, 10:18:01 PM

Hi
I wonder about the benchmark result of the new CPU (SPEC, Mips, MFlops etc). Also the price and power consumption.

There is a FPGA with Quad IBM PowerPC 405D cores (Virtex II). Perhaps similar FPGA can be build using this new CPU.

Title: Re: Motorola Unveils Next Generation Family of 32-Bit Microc
Post by: olegil on October 22, 2002, 04:40:44 AM

Hmm, I hadn't seen that FPGA before. That's one awesome beast. Guess who'se surfing through the user manual right now :-)

Title: Re: Motorola Unveils Next Generation Family of 32-Bit Microc
Post by: Kermito on October 22, 2002, 07:54:46 AM

DEJA VU!!!

I think I just saw this news before  :-o

where is the moderator!  :destroy: