Better late than never, the Financial Times has picked up on our November story that Thorn EMI’s Inmos unit has a large order from IBM for its Colour Look-Up Table chips (CI No 561), so we’d better repeat it: the story has not actually moved on since last time, because there is still no formal confirmation that the customer is IBM, but the company is expected to use the $20m of Inmos CLUTs in the graphics subsystem for the next generation of Personal Computer.
IBM EXPECTED TO USE INMOS CLUTs IN GRAPHICS SUBSYSTEM FOR NEXT GENERATION OF PERSONAL COMPUTER
