Info on Clipper chip and fabrication of it
Graham Toal
gtoal at an-teallach.com
Wed Nov 10 05:33:56 PST 1993
In article <9311092013.AA09822 at vangogh.VIS.ColoState.EDU> nate at vis.colostate.edu writes:
> Last I heard, hte model of the ARM series used in the Newton (the
> ARM 610 processor) cranked out about 30,000 Drystones and used
> _very_ little power.
Oh boy, wait till the guys on comp.sys.acorn hear about this!
I can tell why the arm was chosen: it comes as a drop-in circuit that
manufacturers can use in their own designs. Not many of the other
low-power fast CPUs are available like this. And its very small,
and blindingly fast.
G
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