Hewlett-Packard Co’s Precision Architecture RISC won a 32.7% share of RISC system revenue last year, worth some $9,600m, according to Andrew Allison’s Inside the New Computer Industry. That’s down a shade on 1993’s 33.7% share, but significantly up on its $7,500m revenue last time. Sparc is in second place with $5,800m from a 19.7% share, down from 1993’s 22.5% share, but up on the $5,000m system revenues the architecture commanded last year. Power RISC and PowerPC hit 18.4% and $5,400m in 1994, up significantly from 1993’s 10.8% and $2,400m numbers. MIPS R-series is at 17.7% and $5,200m, from 20.2% and $4,500m last time. Alpha is at 5.1% and $1,500m from $300m in 1993. Other RISC system architecture revenues are down at $1,800m and a 6.1% share from $2,550m and 12.8% in 1993. Meantime Intel Corp’s embedded 80960 RISC continues to lead the merchant microprocessor market, according to Allison, with 5.2m shipped in 1994 compared with 4.6m last year for a cumulative total of 12.2m since 1989. The Power-PowerPC camp shipped 1.8m processors in 1994, and 290,000 in 1993, for a total of 2.09m. Advanced Micro Devices Inc has shipped 3.7m Am29000 RISCs since 1989 – 1.5m in 1994. 1.5m MIPS RX000s shipped last year for a total of 2.94m since 1988. The ARM RISC scored 1.2m in 1994 – 2.17m since 1988. There were 560,000 Sparcs shipped in 1994 compared with 430,000 in 1993, with 1.88m shifted since 1988. There were 400,000 Transputers shipped in 1994 for a total of 1.67m since 1988. Other RISC ships were 220,000 in 1994 for a total of 840,000 since 1988. Total number of RISC processor ships to date since 1988 stands at 27.5m according to the newsletter, with 12.4m in 1994 and 8.2m in 1993.
