Hewlett-Packard Co has signed another Japanese licensee for its Precision Architecture RISC in the shape of Oki Electric Industry Co – but Intel Corp, whose 80860 RISC is used in Oki’s new workstations – need not panic yet: Oki wants to fabricate microcontroller versions of the RISC for use in embedded control applications. Hitachi Ltd’s first iteration of the Hewlett-Packard RISC is also a microcontroller (CI No 1,629); Oki plans to develop parts for use in telecommunications systems, automotive electronics and printers and says it hopes to have the first ones commercially available in 1993. The other licensee signed for the Precision Architecture RISC design is Samsung Electronics Co, Seoul, South Korea.
