P. Prazeres - Re:"TI announcing a new
processing chip "
I'm not sure what you are referring to.
I do remember that TI made a BIG SPLASH in preannouncing a 0.18 micron process for ASIC manufacturing that WAS NOT a 0.18 micron process. Instead it was a 0.25 micron process with an Leffective ("effective" gate channel width) of 0.18 microns. It was to be manufacturable in 1997, not 1996.
They neglected to educate the average reader that everybody else, including that technical slow poke Intel, is also madly at work on developing the same process capability.
Lastly, the process is for ASICs - chips designed BY THEIR CUSTOMERS FOR THEIR CUSTOMERS. I don't recollect TI ever saying they had their own processor to run on this.
TI does, however, have a good stable of DSP chips which I am sure will be migrated over to the 0.25 micron process. But, these are DSP chips and not general purpose CPU chips.
Cyrix, AMD, MIPS/SGI, Sun/Sparc, DEC/Alpha, IBM/PowerPC are all living examples that making a CPU and selling a CPU "ain't the same thing".
Paul |
