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They state that the chip was 50% cache memory, so possibly the speedup would come from a simple RISC plus the boost from cache. 1987 was SPARC v7 chips (v8 cam
by shrubble 3y ago
They state that the chip was 50% cache memory, so possibly the speedup would come from a simple RISC plus the boost from cache. 1987 was SPARC v7 chips (v8 came out in 1990), which has 110K transistors or so depending on CPU.
However the strategy of "retreat to the high end" rather than producing something in volume might have contributed to the rejection; they had no strategy for a volume system that would have gotten them more desktop / technical workstation sales.