Instantaneous Rendering?
Could instantaneous rendering be on the horizon? Anyway, thought the readers
might be interested in this article.
Sounds like a good chip for The Screamer II!
* NEC Develops 500 MHz RISC Chip
TOKYO, JAPAN, 1994 FEB 16 (NB) — NEC says it has developed a powerful
RISC (reduced instruction-set computing) chip, which operates at 500
megahertz (MHz) and a very low-energy consumption rate.
NEC claims that it is the world's fastest RISC chip. The firm has
also developed a super-fast SRAM (static random access memory). NEC
will announce the details of these chips at the International Solid
State Circuit Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco this week.
NEC's latest RISC chip is a 32-bit processor, which is based on CMOS
(complimentary metal oxide semiconductor) and eight-tiered pipeline
technologies. The two technologies reportedly allow for a powerful
parallel processing feature which uses less power. The company
claims that the RISC chip consumes only one- thirtieth of the power
of existing RISC chips.
The RISC chip is still in the prototype stage. It has a cache memory
of 100 MIPS (million instructions per second). NEC says it is
possible to increase this cache memory to 300 MIPS.
Meanwhile, NEC has also developed a 16-megabit SRAM — reportedly
developed for a cache memory. NEC has applied wave-pipeline
technology and 0.4-micron BiCMOS technology in the development of the
chip. As a result, it operates at 220 MHz with a cycle speed of 4.5
nanoseconds.
The chips will be able to handle large amounts of data at high speed,
which makes them ideal for multimedia devices, which need to process
data in real time.
Source: Newsbytes, Masayuki "Massey" Miyazawa