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On Sunday, May 23, 1993 at 6:17:06 AM UTC-7, GRUBB wrote:

ro...@forsythe.stanford.edu (Mark Rogowsky) writes:

The Pentium is slated to ship 10,000 total units in 1993. By the time it's Sorry Mark but this is for second QUARTER; the TOTAL production for 1993

will be 100,000 (PC Week 5/24/93). No one company will have more than
8,000 chips.

really shipping, the PowerPC will be shipping -- in volume. By the end of >1994, total shipments of machines based on PowerPC will be virtually equal >to those based on Pentium (a prediction based on projections of Intel and >Apple/IBM).

Yep and PC Week 5/24/93 gave some of the details
The 80 MHz PowerPC that resulted from the work of Motorola/IBM on the MPC610/66 also gives an edge. Here is the PowerPC time table along
with some other info:
PowerPC ALU Registers External bus CPU Features/
CPU data address cache Notes
MPC601 32 int 32 64 32 32K 66 MHz: SPECint92: 50;
[98601] fp 64 combined SPECfp92: 80. 6.5 {50 MHz} -
I/D 9 {66 MHz} watts*
MPC603: low power MPC601 for desktop & portable systems. Out by end of 1993. [603]
MPC604: high performance MPC601 for high end machines. Out by 1st Q 1994. [604]
MPC620 64 64 64 64 32K Out by mid 1994.
[620] combined
I/D
*(PC Week 04/12/93; PC Mag 4/27/93:138) The SPECint92: 60 (MacWeek 4/26/93) was a typo. Old name MC98601. Some NuBus boards containing early samples of PowerPC 601 were given to Apple's "A-list" developers (PC Week 12/7/92; MacWeek 12/14/92), and select venders were sent sample MPC601 chips by Motorola (PC Week 2/08/93). MPC601/50 MHz-$280; MPC601/66 MHz-$374 (PC Week 4/12/93). A MPC601/80 MHz was used in a PowerPC Mac prototype (MacWeek 5/10/93). Rumor-there are plans to produce MPC601/80 chips in several months (MacWeek 5/17/93). Systems: see Hardware, PowerPC rumors.
PowerPC Rumors
IBM PowerPC: fall {September or October rumored} 1993 (PC Week 5/24/93); ~$3000- MicroChannel bus, XGA video, 8 MB RAM, 200 MB hard-drive (Computer Reseller News, 3/22/93). Will run native version AIX and Mac apps (PC Week 3/15/93) and support DOS; no comments on Windows app compatablity.
Apple PowerPC {Tesseract}: Jan 24, 1994; near LC line prices {~$2000, down from ~$3000 projection (MacUser 9/92:146)}- MPC601/50 MHz, 4/8 MB RAM, a
2.8 MB floppy drive (MacWeek 3/22/93). The Centris 610 and 650, Mac IIvx
and IIvi, and Quadra 800 products are all planned to have PowerPC upgrades (PC Week 5/10/93; Apple Computer).
So Mark was almost right about the number Pentium machines out before the PowerPC machines begin shipping. Depending on when the IBM PowerPC is
out there will be only 10,000 to 50,000 Pentium machines with most of
them in the $4000 price range.

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