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To: William Sheppard who wrote (3560)8/27/1998 8:27:00 AM
From: bob   of 10309
 
Bill,


They normalize to 20 Mhz. The benchmarks compare "computational efficiency" and not speed. That means, they compare something like execution time per megahertz, or effectively how many clock cycles it takes to get the job done. Not very meaningful except in an academic sense. What counts are not clock speed related items, but work completed per second at the desired system price point. If one were to factor in cost, one of the other chips would probably beat the PSC1000 because some were 8 bit chips that are real cheap. If you only need X amount of work for the task, then a processor that can do 3X at 2 times the price would have a better price performance, but would still be too expensive and 2/3 of the processing power would be going to waste.

BTW, the PSC1000 sells for about $10 in volume.

Bob
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