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To: Yousef who wrote (55578)4/15/1999 8:52:00 AM
From: Scumbria  Respond to of 1574098
 
Yousef,

Why don't you ask a "workstation" system designer about the problems with the Motorolo 68040 CPU. This part had serious design/process issues that slipped the promised release date by about a year.

The 68040 had a lot of bugs in it. This was a reflection of Motorola's design methodology, not their manufacturing. The PowerPC alliance brought the IBM design methodology and their process technology to Motorola. By 1996 Motorola was manufacturing PowerPC parts quite successfully.

Can we restrict the discussion to modern history, and make an honest distinction between logic issues and manufacturing issues please?

Scumbria



To: Yousef who wrote (55578)4/15/1999 5:37:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr  Respond to of 1574098
 
Yousef - RE: "Why don't you ask a "workstation" system designer about the
problems
with the Motorolo 68040 CPU. This part had serious
design/process
issues that slipped the promised release date by about a year. This
was back about 10-12 years ago when Motorolo was a serious
CPU manufacturer.
That CPU cost them "dearly"."

10-12 years ago? Not bad. Only 1 problem in the past 10-12 years is a pretty good track record.

Thanks for the info.


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