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Ok rendering freaks looks like you
will  want  a 68060 card for X-mas
next  year!   The  060  will begin
production  in  the  beginning  of
1994   and  sport  >46  specmarks.
Versions   running  on  50mhz  and
66mhz will be available!  Read the
following text:

Intel  P5,  Motorola  68060 In MPU
Forum   Limelight.    By  Jonathan
Cassell Burlingame, Calif.  -

Intel  and Motorola engineers last
week   detailed  the  superscalar,
pipelined   architectures  of  the
respective     P5     and    68060
microprocessors   at   the  annual
Microprocessor Forum here.

Motorola's   060   is   a   32-bit
processor   with   a  superscalar,
pipelined  architecture.   It  has
more  than  2  million transitors,
using  a  0.5-micron, triple-layer
metal,   3.3  volt  process  in  a
static  design.   Performance will
be 3.5 times the 25MHz 68040, 100+
MIPS,  25-40  MFLOPS  or  about 46
Specmarks,    according   to   Joe
Circello,      68000      advanced
microprocessor    architect    for
Motorola.

Separated    in    the   060   are
instruction    caches   and   data
caches;      instruction     fetch
pipelines     (with     four-stage
instruction      processor,      a
physically-mapped           8Kbyte
instruction  cache  with  four-way
self   associative,   a  virtually
mapped, 256-entry branch cache and
a  FIFO  instruction  buffer), and
operand  execution pipelines (with
four-stage  operand  processor,  a
physically   mapped   8Kbyte  data
cache  with 4-way interleaving and
a 4-entry, 32-bit write buffer).

The    floating   point   unit   -
implemented in the execution stage
of  the operand execution pipeline
-  is  compatible with the 040 FPU
programming model.  Floating point
execution  times  range  from 1-24
cycles.    The   060   superscalar
dispatch  algorithm can execute 50
to  60  percent  of  integer  code
instructions    as    pairs   with
existing compilers.

The  060  will  come  in 040-style
packaging,    with    a   similiar
external  bus.  The first versions
will  sample in the second half of
1993,  go  into full production in
Q1  1994,  and  run  at  50MHz and
66MHz.

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