What with Compaq Computer Corp now squarely in the MIPS Computer Systems Inc camp for workstations, the only other high-volume design-win worth getting is Apple Computer Inc, which for all its recent talk of abandoning its proprietary stance is unlikely to join either with MIPS or with Sparc International. The betting is it’ll stick with Motorola’s 88000 for its RISC system but probably tweak the chip in such a way that it differs from what other Motorola customers are using.
