Word: chipping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...technological front. Sony and Sega are following 3DO's lead, using 32-bit processors and double-speed CD-ROM drives with sufficient capacity to store VHS-quality video images and CD-quality stereo sound. Nintendo, striking out on its own, is opting for a higher-powered, 64-bit chip, and will store its games on high-capacity, plug-in cartridges instead of CD-ROM discs. Nintendo says this will enable it to offer both a lower-cost system and the blistering speed demanded by its target market: adolescent boys who like the fast-paced "twitch and flinch" action games...
Microprocessors can be divided into two groups: CISC chips and RISC chips. The two architectures are fundamentally different approaches to processor performance, which is the measurement of how long it takes for the chip to perform a task using three factors: cycles per instruction, time per cycle and instructions per task...
...brand--defines the type of computer on your desk, although some brand-names are strongly linked to a microprocessor--for example, Macintosh is linked to both Motorola's 68000 and the PowerPC chip. When the computer store salesperson says that a computer conforms to the IBM PC standard or is Windows compatible, he or she is really referring to the computer's microprocessor...
Cycles per instruction and time per cycle together determine processor speed; if a chip can execute one instruction per cycle and can operate at 100 million cycles per second or 100 MHz, the computer can execute 100 million instructions per second or 100 MIPS...
...practice, CISC chips in the form of Intel's x86 family are ingrained in the marketplace and cannot be ignored. But Intel has claimed the P7, scheduled to hit the market in the year 2000, will be a combination CISC-RISC (CRISC?) chip...