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