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To: soup who wrote (2051)4/4/1997 8:54:00 AM
From: David Kuspa   of 213186
 
"Motorola Hits 300 MHz With PowerPC 603e Microprocessor Through Leadership Technology

Motorola Announces Pricing and Immediate Availability for 300-, 275- and 250 MHz PowerPC 603e Microprocessors

AUSTIN, Texas, April 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Motorola RISC Microprocessor Division announced today that it is shipping the industry's first 300 MHz volume desktop and portable microprocessor. Motorola's aggressive manufacturing process technology has produced this high-speed milestone with its PowerPC 603e microprocessor family. Also today, at a press event at Walt Disney World in Florida, Apple Computer announced it is shipping its newest family of mainstream computers, the Power Macintosh 6500 series, based on these new Motorola PowerPC 603e microprocessors running at speeds from 225- to 300 MHz."

read the entire release at: biz.yahoo.com

I think I remember reading somewhere that the 300 Mhz 603e approached or maybe surpassed the performance of a 200 Mhz 604e. I did a search of MacWeek, MacWorld & MacUser and couldn't find a reference to the real-world speed of this latest 603e. Can anyone provide a benchmark reference? The release states that "The 300 MHz PowerPC 603e microprocessor has an estimated SPECint95 of 7.4 and an estimated SPECfp95 of 6.1", but I don't know how that compares to the 604e line.

D. Kuspa
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