Integrated Device Technology Inc, the Santa Clara, California firm that is a licensee of the MIPS Technologies Inc R-series RISC family, still sees the RISC as an attractive personal computer engine, despite the collapse of the Advanced Computing Environment initiative. It has joined forces with DeskStation Technology Inc and OPTi Inc to create the R4000PC RISCNT chip set and combine it with the OPTi 486EISAWB chip set to create a Windows NT desktop personal computer. The resulting machine is being launched by Lenexa, Kansas-based DeskStation Technology as the ARCStation 1, claimed to be the first personal computer to use the power of RISC in combination with an EISA chip set to provide a migration path for current personal computer users to high-end Windows NT applications. The machine uses a 50MHz processor and DeskStation’s ARCS-BIOS layer interface to support the R4000PC microprocessor and Windows NT, in combination with the standard AT-alike peripherals.
