The next Microprocessor Forum is set for October 13 to 15 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel near San Francisco Airport: the not-to-be-missed event promises to have the goods on the first IBM Corp and Apple Computer Inc PowerPC chip, previews on Intel Corp’s P5, Motorola Inc’s 68060 and Tsunami, and the first embracing discussion of Hobbit, ARM, the next-generation Intel SL and pocket electronics in general; Larry Tesler, head of Apple’s Newton line is the keynote speaker and presentations will include Sparc Version 9, potential Alpha implementations and a low-cost Hewlett-Packard Co single-chip Precision Architecture RISC; the Forum kicks off with two all-day seminars on RISC and the Intel iAPX-86 family.
