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The chip sounds terrific. But… >General samples will be available for both the 50- MHz and 66-MHz 68060 by 3Q94. OK, that's samples only. >Production for the 50-MHz 68060 is slated to start in late 3Q94. With it being this far away, the ONLY vendor who might use this in a desktop computer is Commodore. PowerPC, Pentium, R4x00, Alpha etc. will have swamped the market and be in a fierce price war by then. I note that Motorola talks about embedded applications a couple of times, i.e., things like printers, cars, etc. This makes sense since many companies already have tons of money invested in 680×0 code, embedded real time kernels, etc., and this provides a terrific migration path. Even if Commodore doesn't use it I'm certain a third party will do an 060 accelerator card anyway, which will no doubt provide terrific performance. 3D folks are going to be ecstatic. Thanks for the post.