1.9 ghz 68040 chips

[melott]

Has anyone heard of this ....

here....www.lowendmac.com/practical/02/0401.html

The artical is refering to the continued developement
of the Motorola 68040 chip.
Its supposed to rin at 1.9 gig and soon 2 gig.

Could this be real??

[iamaboringperson]

melott, I wonder if you've bothered to check the date of that article (I know it's an old one)

[macto]

LEM has run a couple of good April Fool Jokes.  My favourites were "Luddite Mac" and "High End Mac", the last of which did catch me off guard (since the site has been gradually covering higher end models as time goes on).  

[melott]

I realize the artical is a little old.
But reguardless, if the 040 chip was developed
to run at 1.9 gig and if its a pin-out of the
earlier version, ... well

(I know its alot of 'IFs')

[iamaboringperson]

melott wrote:
I realize the artical is a little old.
But reguardless, if the 040 chip was developed
to run at 1.9 gig and if its a pin-out of the
earlier version, ... well

(I know its alot of 'IFs')

:-D

[melott]

@Macto

Ahhh ;-) ... I didn't catch that ....

You are probably right....
It did sound to good to be true.

[minator]

The 68040 was around the same clock speed of the 486 when it appeared.

If they had continued development who knows, the 680x0 could have reached 2GHz type clock speeds by now.

My understanding is they would have run into problems trying to parallelise things internally, x86 has exactly this problem.