On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Roman Black wrote:

>Alexandre Guimar=E3es wrote:
>
>>     I wish I had some good money to spare. His way of doing processors
>> really has the potential to revolutionize many markets. The problem is=
 that
>> he does not have the money and has some ideas that are really not
>> mainstream. Someone would have to guide his genius to make marketable =
parts
>> before he goes to the top of speed things. I still have hope he will s=
uceed
>> and get us some very nice toys to play with.
>
>
>This thread has been interesting, i'm wondering if
>a number of us (piclisters) got together and put
>say $500 USD in each, could we get a "super-pic"
>made at one of the custom chip plants?? A chip that
>will be able to run our existing legacy PIC RISC
>code, but at super-high speeds??
>
>Strikes me that the PIC processor itself is a simple
>enough device, why can't we get them made to do
>1GHz etc?? They are much simpler than something like
>a Pentium, shorter distances from processor to ram
>etc, surely we can get them made with similar
>speeds? I'm sincerely curious as to how much
>that would cost total, and per unit, and the lead
>time before the group actually get the chips.

I want a PIC with a real stack and accessible stack pointer and NO PAGES
OR BANKS. Make the word as wide as you wish, make gotos and calls whateve=
r
you wish, NO MORE PAGING AND BANKING. The PIC has grown too big for this
ancient kludge imho.

Peter

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