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32-bit chip-set to be launched in late 1982
32-bit chip-set to be launched in late 1982 The launch, later in 1982, of a truly VLSI (over 100k devices on a chip) 32-bit processing system 'with mainframe-like performance' has been announced by Hewlett-Packard. The entire chip-set will consist of •
32-bit central processor unit with
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ROM with 640 kbit and similar access and cycle times clock with two nonoverlapping 18 MHz signals
To eliminate heat-related problems, Hewlett-Packard has developed a copper-core packaging technology. The chips and layered interchip connections are mounted onto this substrate and heat dissipated through it.
a 55 ns microcycle time, 450 000
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transistors with 9.2k of 38-bit words control store ROM, a 230 instruction repertiore and a 36 Mbaud transfer rate using pipelining I/O processor with 4.5k of 38-bit words resident control store, 240 000 transistors, DMA and interrupt handling memory controller controlling 256 kbyte of RAM or 512 kbyte of ROM, byte, halfword, word and semaphore operations RAM with 128 kbit, 165 ns access time and 112 ns cycle time
Compact floppy disc standard set in Japan A standard 3-in compact floppy disc has been agreed upon by three Japanese companies, Matushita Electric, Hitachi and Hitachi Maxell. The new disc is compatible with and has the same recording capacity as the 5-in minifloppy widely used as external memory for office and personal computers. As well as small size and compatibility with minifloppies, the compact
Financial automation spreads to smaller banks Smaller banks and other financial institutions having less than $500M in deposits are in the process of converting manual procedures and those handled by service bureaus to automated inhouse operations, according to a study on small business computers in retail banking by Frost and Sullivan I nc. Eighty seven per cent of institutions responding to a survey plan to install online mini/micro systems over the next three years and the study puts the market size at $7200M cumulatively over the 1980 decade. Data processing systems in banking have become a competitive tool, according to the Frost and Sullivan analysis. 'Daily compounding' and 'continuous compounding' have become powerful advertising pitches to customers in the USA. This is not the case in the UK where inefficient banking practices such as free cheques and enormous branch systems are more than subsidized by sixmonthly interest payments on deposits accounts and not on cheque (current) accounts. Competition in banking is
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a little known phenomenon in the UK though there are signs that this is changing with the arrival of money brokers, and one bank paying some interest on current accounts. There will be a rapidly expanding growth in paperless processing requiring "online realtime data processing and in credit card processing. (Frost and
Sullivan, 106 Fulton Street, New York, NY 10038, USA. Tel: (212) 233-1080 Report no. A 838)
Mini/micro computers in retail banking during the 1980s
Japanese compact floppy disc disc features a plastic case with automatic head window shutters to protect the magnetic sheet from dust and fingers, and various strengtheners and identifying tags. The compact disc can record up to 500 kbvte usin~ the MFM recording system, can transfer information at 2.50 kbaud and rotates at.300 rpm. Although there are no p!ans to market the compact disc in the UK at the moment, the companies hope that the idea will prove popular for small businesses and in the home and will become an industry standard.
Rapid Recall cut the prices of Intel systems UK Intel systems suppliers, Rapid Recall, are cutting the prices of many Intel systems products by between 10 and 35 per cent. Intellec development systems and perpheral units including the MDS 226, 741,721 and Series III systems as well as all ICE (in-circuit emulator) modules are reduced by about 10 per cent. The range of SBC products has price reductions of up to 25 per cent. Educational discounts of 15 per cent, announced some time ago by Intel and Rapid Recall still apply to the new prices which means that up to 50 per cent reduction (from the old price) is available to educational institutions for high-level language software.
(Rapid Recall, Tel." (0494) 26271)
microprocessors and microsystems
32-bit central processor unit with
• •
ROM with 640 kbit and similar access and cycle times clock with two nonoverlapping 18 MHz signals
To eliminate heat-related problems, Hewlett-Packard has developed a copper-core packaging technology. The chips and layered interchip connections are mounted onto this substrate and heat dissipated through it.
a 55 ns microcycle time, 450 000
•
•
•
transistors with 9.2k of 38-bit words control store ROM, a 230 instruction repertiore and a 36 Mbaud transfer rate using pipelining I/O processor with 4.5k of 38-bit words resident control store, 240 000 transistors, DMA and interrupt handling memory controller controlling 256 kbyte of RAM or 512 kbyte of ROM, byte, halfword, word and semaphore operations RAM with 128 kbit, 165 ns access time and 112 ns cycle time
Compact floppy disc standard set in Japan A standard 3-in compact floppy disc has been agreed upon by three Japanese companies, Matushita Electric, Hitachi and Hitachi Maxell. The new disc is compatible with and has the same recording capacity as the 5-in minifloppy widely used as external memory for office and personal computers. As well as small size and compatibility with minifloppies, the compact
Financial automation spreads to smaller banks Smaller banks and other financial institutions having less than $500M in deposits are in the process of converting manual procedures and those handled by service bureaus to automated inhouse operations, according to a study on small business computers in retail banking by Frost and Sullivan I nc. Eighty seven per cent of institutions responding to a survey plan to install online mini/micro systems over the next three years and the study puts the market size at $7200M cumulatively over the 1980 decade. Data processing systems in banking have become a competitive tool, according to the Frost and Sullivan analysis. 'Daily compounding' and 'continuous compounding' have become powerful advertising pitches to customers in the USA. This is not the case in the UK where inefficient banking practices such as free cheques and enormous branch systems are more than subsidized by sixmonthly interest payments on deposits accounts and not on cheque (current) accounts. Competition in banking is
166
a little known phenomenon in the UK though there are signs that this is changing with the arrival of money brokers, and one bank paying some interest on current accounts. There will be a rapidly expanding growth in paperless processing requiring "online realtime data processing and in credit card processing. (Frost and
Sullivan, 106 Fulton Street, New York, NY 10038, USA. Tel: (212) 233-1080 Report no. A 838)
Mini/micro computers in retail banking during the 1980s
Japanese compact floppy disc disc features a plastic case with automatic head window shutters to protect the magnetic sheet from dust and fingers, and various strengtheners and identifying tags. The compact disc can record up to 500 kbvte usin~ the MFM recording system, can transfer information at 2.50 kbaud and rotates at.300 rpm. Although there are no p!ans to market the compact disc in the UK at the moment, the companies hope that the idea will prove popular for small businesses and in the home and will become an industry standard.
Rapid Recall cut the prices of Intel systems UK Intel systems suppliers, Rapid Recall, are cutting the prices of many Intel systems products by between 10 and 35 per cent. Intellec development systems and perpheral units including the MDS 226, 741,721 and Series III systems as well as all ICE (in-circuit emulator) modules are reduced by about 10 per cent. The range of SBC products has price reductions of up to 25 per cent. Educational discounts of 15 per cent, announced some time ago by Intel and Rapid Recall still apply to the new prices which means that up to 50 per cent reduction (from the old price) is available to educational institutions for high-level language software.
(Rapid Recall, Tel." (0494) 26271)
microprocessors and microsystems