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To: BEACHCOMBER who wrote (4495)	3/12/1998 10:56:00 PM
From: Urlman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8581

RISC CPU Our fast RISC CPU microprocessors are based on the MIPS architecture. MIPS Technologies, Inc. designs and licenses the MIPS RISC microprocessor family that is used in computer systems, consumer electronics and embedded control applications. The MIPS processor technology is available on the open market from six semiconductor partners: Integrated Device Technology, Inc., LSI Logic Corporation, NEC Corporation, NKK Corporation, Philips Semiconductors, Quantum Effect Design, Inc., and Toshiba Corporation. These partners participate in the design and development of MIPS processors and software and then produce, market, sell and support the processors. MIPS itself does not fabricate or sell products. I wonder when we will have the ability to imbed graphics in our posts? www-europe.sgi.com SOURCE: www-europe.sgi.com vMicroprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages <processor> (MIPS) A project at Stanford University intended to simplify processor design by eliminating hardware interlocks between the five pipeline stages. This means that only single execution cycle instructions can access the thirty two 32 bit general registers, so that the compiler can schedule them to avoid conflicts. This also means that LOAD/STORE and branch instructions have a one-cycle delay to account for. However, because of the importance of multiply and divide instructions, a special HI/LO pair of multiply/divide registers exist which do have hardware interlocks, since these take several cycles to execute and complicate instruction scheduling. The project eventually lead to the commercial MIPS R2000 processor. (09 Feb 1995) realtime-info.be

To: BEACHCOMBER who wrote (4495)	3/13/1998 12:29:00 AM
From: bob	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8581

BEACHCOMBER, I share some of your concern with regards to Patriot being able to gain market share with PSC1000. However after reading Urlman's post from Multimedia Week I have to be a bit skeptical about some of the information regarding picoJava. Since IBM just licensed the picoJava core last week, how can they begin "offering" them this month when they don't even have a chip yet. Also, since the price isn't known, we can't tell if they will be competitive on this level or not. All of the accounts I have heard to date give a much higher price to pico, and I would assume price/performance will matter. Nevertheless, it is a bit disconcerting to not even be included in the discussion even though I continue to believe we have a great chip for these types of applications. Remember though that articles in magazines are not always accurate and are usually the work of PR departments. Cap