Intergraph Corp’s Advanced Processor Division in Palo Alto, California says that the second generation Clipper C300 32-bit RISC microprocessor is now generally available, with 40MHz versions in production now, with 50MHz samples to follow in the second quarter: the company says it shipped more than 300 of the C300 modules in 1988; the C300 is accompanied by price cuts of up to 37% on the original C100, over 20,000 modules of which have been shopped since the first quarter of 1987; the complete C300 module is $745 for 40MHz, $945 for 50MHz, with the four chip CPU, two cache controllers and clock – set unmounted at $545 and $745, and the C311 central processor – which includes on-chip floating point unit – alone costing $295 and $445; the reduced prices for the 25MHz and 33MHz versions of the C100, for the same combinations are $345 and $545; $245 and $395; and $145 and $195.
