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Motorola Ships First 1 GHz Processor
Implementing the PowerPC Instruction Set Architecture
Manufactured using
silicon-on-insulator technology, shipment of MPC7455 achieves PowerPC
instruction set architecture
milestone
AUSTIN, Texas – 28 Jan.
2002 – Networking and computing product manufacturers can now take
advantage of the most powerful processor implementing the PowerPC instruction
set architecture on the market today. With the shipment of the
silicon-on-insulator (SOI) fabricated MPC7455 and MPC7445 processors, Motorola,
Inc. (NYSE: MOT), the market share leader in integrated circuits for
communications systems, today announced that the MPC7455 is the first processor
implementing the PowerPC instruction set architecture to ship at 1 GHz
speeds.
Delivering a high level of performance
in combination with very efficient power consumption across virtually all
speeds, these innovative processors provide networking and computing product
OEMs with a best-in-class solution for a wide range of host processor
applications—including high performance network infrastructure and
telecommunications equipment, computing products and embedded systems.
"Motorola has achieved two significant
milestones for the industry with these new products," stated Tony Massimini,
chief of technology with Semico Research Corporation. "The MPC7455 shipping at
1 GHz speeds means that Motorola delivers the most powerful PowerPC architecture
host processor on the market. As the first to ship PowerPC architecture-based
SOI fabricated processors at 1 GHz speeds, Motorola demonstrates mastery of
needs in the high performance computing, portable and wireless
arenas."
One significant adopter of the MPC7445
is Ericsson, a leading supplier of wireless infrastructure equipment, who has
chosen the product for a part of their GPRS backbone system. The MPC7445 is
allowing Ericsson to meet the highly demanding solution criteria and
time-to-market needs that their customer base demands from
them.
"In our first generation product, Pirus
has currently designed in the Motorola 7450 and we have selected Motorola's
powerful MPC7455 for our next generation storage networking platform," stated
Rich Corley, founder and executive vice president of technology at Pirus
Networks. “The Motorola MPC7455's unsurpassed performance, unprecedented
level of vendor support, along with the comprehensive suite of software and
development tools available for the PowerPC instruction set architecture,
further enables Pirus to offer higher performing intelligent services as part of
our industry leading storage networking platform, the
PSX-1000.”
"We are excited at the
prospect of this new addition to the Motorola’s G4 family, as it will
further enhance the performance of our COTS processor products," said Richard
Kirk, product manager with Radstone Technology’s Processor Group. "This
extra processing power will be particularly useful to our customers who require
sonar, radar, navigation and terrain mapping applications. It will not only meet
their current requirements but also enable them to future-proof their systems
against the increasing performance demands of this marketplace." He added,
"Radstone has been successfully designing with the leading edge of Motorola's
PowerPC processor roadmap since 1995 and have been supplying products powered by
the G4 since its launch."
EEMBC
Benchmarks
Motorola also announced the Embedded
Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC) certified benchmark scores for the
MPC7455. Demonstrating the capability of the MPC7455 to serve the processing
needs of a variety of market segments, Motorola has benchmarked its 1 GHz
MPC7455 processor in five different application areas using EEMBC’s
out-of-the-box certification type: automotive/industrial, consumer, networking,
office automation, and telecommunications.
Motorola has achieved the highest benchmark
scores certified by EEMBC to date in all five application areas.
Automotive/Industrial: 889.3
Consumer: 122.6
Networking: 30.4
Office Automation: 1238.6
Telecommunications:
27.2
"The performance of Motorola's
MPC7455 is tremendous, with data to prove it in all 5 application areas," said
Markus Levy, EEMBC president. "But it is equally significant that this
performance has been certified according to objective, unbiased benchmarks that
the majority of the microprocessor vendors in the world have agreed upon. In
publicizing these scores, Motorola is helping to raise standards both for
measuring processor performance and for the way embedded processors are
marketed."
Features Designed to Optimize
Functionality
Designed to be pin-compatible
with Motorola’s MPC7451/MPC7450 in a 484-pin CBGA package, the MPC7455
reaches speeds of 1 GHz with a core voltage of 1.6V and includes 256KB of
on-chip L2 cache with support of up to 2MB of backside L3 cache. The MPC7445,
pin-compatible with Motorola’s MPC7441 in a 360-pin CBGA package, is
designed to deliver lower power consumption at speeds up to 800 MHz with a core
voltage of 1.3V and 256KB of integrated L2 Cache. Both devices benefit from
Motorola’s HiPerMOS silicon-on-insulator process technology, enabling the
processor to deliver increased performance over bulk CMOS technology. In
addition to increased performance, SOI technology offers excellent low power
capability, making the devices ideal for applications in the wireless and
portable arenas.
In addition to the speed
milestones, the MPC7455/7445 offer the following features designed to further
optimize the processors’ functionality in embedded
applications:
Full symmetric multiprocessing (SMP)
support – Allows customers to easily scale their designs with multiple
processors to deliver much higher system performance
More block address translation (BAT) registers
– increased from 8 to 16 to support efficient embedded operating systems
through high speed mapping of additional large blocks of data.
Cache Locking – Cache way locking has been
added to the L1 caches, allowing key performance algorithms and code to be
locked in the L1 cache.
Continued support of the L3 cache on the MPC7455
helps assure system compatibility for customers of Motorola’s MPC745x
products.
As with other Motorola
processors implementing the PowerPC instruction set architecture, the MPC7455
and MPC7445 enjoy support from an extensive suite of software and development
tools from Motorola’s Smart Networks Alliance
members.
Pricing and
Availability
The MPC7455 is shipping today, and
the MPC7445 is currently sampling. Suggested retail pricing for the MPC7445 at
800 MHz is $125 in 10k quantities. Suggested retail pricing for the MPC7455 at
1 GHz is $295 in 10k quantities.
About Motorola
As the world's #1 producer of embedded processors,
Motorola’s Semiconductor Products Sector creates DigitalDNA™
system-on-chip solutions for a connected world. Our strong focus on
communications and networking enables customers to develop smarter, simpler,
faster and synchronized products for the person, work team, home and automobile.
Motorola's worldwide semiconductor sales were $4.9 billion (USD) in 2001.
http://www.motorola.com/semiconductors.
Motorola,
Inc. (NYSE:MOT) is a global leader in providing integrated communications and
embedded electronic solutions. Sales in 2001 were $29.5 billion.
http://www.motorola.com
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