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Good News

Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2018 9:25 am
by pjw
It appears a relatively unknown Chinese company, Xi Xong Gong, bought the rights to the MC68 design some years ago. It is claimed they have produced a 1.8 GHz single core MC68k compatible CPU complete with an on-chip MMU and FPU!!! Details are sketchy as of now, but a sample batch of 10,000 units is expected to become available to developers within "the next few months". I have not been able to verify any of this, but my Chinese "Deep Throat", an engineer at Xi Xong Gong, assures me that an offical announcement will be made shortly, so I thought Id give y'all a heads up! :)

Happy Easter!

Re: Good News

Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2018 9:54 am
by tofro
Per,

I have one sample here. But I must correct you - It runs at 1.4GHz.

Tobias

Re: Good News

Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2018 11:03 am
by pjw
tofro wrote:I have one sample here. But I must correct you - It runs at 1.4GHz.
Lucky you! But I believe that must be an early prototype :D

Re: Good News

Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2018 2:24 pm
by martyn_hill
Now, being April 1st, might this be just a bit of fun? :-)

Re: Good News

Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2018 10:30 pm
by Peter
Hint regarding "bought the rights": The MC68k was released in 1979. When do patents expire? ;)

Re: Good News

Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2018 9:18 pm
by Giorgio Garabello
8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-)