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- MOTOROLA HAS PRICING AND AVAILABILITY OF 603 - NOTHING FROM IBM YET
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- Motorola's RISC Microprocessor Division has announced pricing and
- sampling of the PowerPC 603 processor. There was no word from IBM as to
- when it would make its announcement. Compared to the 601, the 603 is
- being aggressively priced. In lots of 20,000 each the 66MHz 603 cost
- $160; the 80MHz parts cost $199 each. Thus, they are approximately half
- the price of the PowerPC 601 processors which sell for $318 and $425
- respectively. In quantities of 1,000, the 66MHz device will be priced
- at under $240, and the 80 MHz chip at under $290.
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- Motorola is manufacturing the processor in its MOS-11 facility in
- Austin, Texas. It is available in sample quantities now, with volume
- production scheduled for the fourth quarter this year. The company says
- that its pricing will allow manufacturers to build entry-level desktop
- machines, retailing at less than $2,000 and certainly the bangs-per-buck
- ratio looks impressive. The 80MHz processor produces better than 75
- SPECint92 and 85 SPECfp92. The price is equivalent to a low-end i486
- processor, with at least twice the performance.
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- The only mystery is where IBM has got to in all this. Usually the two
- make PowerPC announcements of this nature within a couple of days of
- each other, but a week after the Motorola announcement, IBM is still not
- being forthcoming, other than to say that it will announce its own
- princing and availability details "soon". The 603 is the first of the
- family to be manufactured by both companies separately, so one
- possibility is Motorola's aggressive pricing has caught IBM on the hop.
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- (see also story 2035)
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