A new contender in the microprocessor stakes clocked at a blinding 90MHz is on the way from Integrated Digital Products Corp, Anaheim, California. Called the 10486 – no relation to the Intel product family – it is not described as a RISC, but has a very simple instruction set. It is designed to drive up to 1Mb of high-speed static RAM to give 60Mbytes per second of available memory bandwidth. To be fabricated in ECL with TTL levels off chip, the part is aimed at computer-aided design and manufacturing, test, graphics, artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, embedded control and robotics as well as high performance general purpose computers. Languages supported are Basic, C, Cobol, Forth, Fortran and Pascal. The part is rated at up to 30 MIPS; no price or availability.
