November 1995 / Cover Story

Heart Throbs	CPU designers beg, borrow, and steal for every ounce of performance they can get - by Alan Joch, Senior Editor
Chip Fashion	Multimedia chips will dominate the technical talk at this year's Microprocessor Forum - by Tom R. Halfhill and John Montgomery
CPU Scorecards Intel P6 Plumbing Cyrix The M1rx Foundation AMD AMD K5 Nexgen A Hint of Things to Come? Digital Equipment Inside the World's Fastest RISC CPU Mips Mips R10000 Sun Microsystems Sun UltraSparc-II Hewlett-Packard Hewlett-Packard PA-8000 PowerPC Alliance 620 Building Blocks	A look at how tomorrow's next-generation chips stack up - by Dick Pountain and Tom R. Halfhill
Why The 615 Matters We Build a 615 Building a 615 Alternate Views of the 615 Pentium-Pin-Ou t PowerPC	Even though it's not in the British Museum's collection, emulation is RISC's Rosetta stone - by Linley Gwennap

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