November 1994 / State Of The Art

The New CPUS	Can AMD top the Pentium? Can SPARC catch fire? And can Intel remain king of the mountain? In the world of microprocessors, the excitement never ends. - by Bob Ryan, Senior Editor
AMD Vs. Superman AMD'S K5: What's New	The quad-issue K5 series is AMD's long-awaited answer to Intel's Pentiums. Its RISC-like core and innovative approach to x86 decoding may prop el it past the Pentiums of today, but Intel isn't standing still. - by Tom R. Halfhill
x86 Wars Update	It appears 1995 will be the year when fifth-generation x86 microprocessors come into their own.
SPARC Strikes Back UltraSPARC Highlights	UltraSparc moves SPARC to 64 bits while providing a host of video and graphics capabilities - by Peter Wayner
PowerPC 620 Soars Features of the PowerPC 620	Its faster logic, shorter pipelines, and high-speed interface endow it with processing power that raises it to workstation and server caliber - by Tom Thompson and Bob Ryan
T5: Brute Force MIPS T5: What's New	Mips Technologies' T5 chip takes an aggressive approach to superscalar dispatch that shows how far today's engineers must go to deliver cutting-edge performance - by Tom R. Halfhill

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