386 advance
Texas Instruments has announced technology that it says may halve the cost of microcomputers based on the 80386 microprocessor running at 33MHz.
The product is a chip set that will allow computer makers to build a 33MHz 80386 system with a total of only nine chips including the 80386 central processor. At present makers are using from 30 to 60 chips on the system board. Texas Instruments says its new TACTB3OOO chip set will make it possible to build a 386 processor on a board only about 10cm by 12.5 cm. The chip set can also be adapted for 386SX systems. It will be easy to produce subsidiary chip sets supporting Micro Channel Architecture (IBM’s standard) or the rival EISA standard, Texas Instrument says.
The company hopes to have the set running in demonstration computers at the northern-autumn Comdex exhibition.
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