http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/21/unsung_heroes_dr_chris_shelton/
worth sticking with thsi article till page 4 - or indeed just advance straight to page 4. The concepts behind that PgC7000 processor were pretty revolutionary! An Ultra-RISC core, overclocking itself as much as it could, decoupled from clocked I/O Bipolar logic instead of CMOS (*) - to go faster. Low voltage operation. "Today, Shelton reckons, even fabbed using CMOS rather than bipolar, it would be barely a millimetre in size yet capable of clock speeds of many gigahertz." Wow - wish someone would do that! We need something revolutionary. (*) ps.whatever happened to my 'first love' - emitter coupled logic? I spent many happy hours as a graduate student (**) in learning about FASTBUS for (at the time) blazingly fast DAQ - because ECL goes faster. I guess no-one can fight City Hall (or commodity chips) (**) Yes - I SHOULD have been chasing girls! Later found in life that women are really UNIMPRESSED with fancy DAQ hardware. Now - red Mazda sports cars? Now you're talking.
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