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Re: I would/wouldn't like a production run of 060's
« on: August 18, 2013, 10:11:07 PM »
I am a tech at Intel in Arizona and work on a series of tool sets in the fab that produces modern CPUs. I can tell you 100% without a doubt that you will not get a FAB to produce a small run of chips. For one thing the wafers in use now are 12" and the old 8" wafers are hard to come by and not cheap. The lithography tools that produce the die are million dollar tools alone and are no longer in use to produce the chip. You would have to get a new set of die made and those are hundreds of thousands for a complete set to make a chip. The man power to run the tool sets, the routes for automation and the cutters, packagers and assembly is all out of production. This would all have to be set back up again and thats not going to happen for a small run.

Just buy a used one, its the best your ever going to get. Get creative in looking for them. The AMiga is far from the only thing that used an 060. LOTS of older embedded systems used them. Heck while I was in the Navy I found a ton of old single board computers that had 040 and 060 chips in them. If you look, you will find them.

Some examples:
http://mediaserver.voxtechnologies.com/FileCache/BVME6000.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Single_Board_Computers

http://www.cpuboards.com/01b005-03

Also here is a nice set of auctions for some single bare processors.
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=motorola+VME&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.Xmotorola+MC68060&_nkw=motorola+MC68060&_sacat=0
« Last Edit: August 18, 2013, 10:29:21 PM by Acill »
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