As you were – it doesn’t look as if Computer Consoles will be launching that 68020 model in its Power5 line after all (CI No 762). The company announced Friday that it was restructuring and refocusing its Computer Products Division, based in Irvine, California to achieve profits in the division sooner, with a major cut in operating expenses that will lower break-even levels. The division will now concentrate its development and distribution activities on the Power6 Unix mini line and Officepower software. The move by the $60m-a-year division will mean a reduction in development of systems around standard microprocessors, but full funding for the high-performance RISC processor project to do a next-generation Unix family doing 25 to 40 MIPS will continue. The staff cut, combined with projected increased sales in 1988 from its indirect outlets will allow the division to near break-even next year. The charge to be taken for the restructuring means that the company will not now meet its projected profit goals for 1987 – but it will still be profitable.
