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Motorola 68040

Motorola 68040

Motorola 68040 microprocessor technical specifications

Developed by: Motorola
Launched: 1990
ALU bits: 32
Clock: 25 MHz until 40 MHz
Family: 68k
Bus: 32 bits
Mem. Address: 32 bits
Transistors: 1 200 000

The 68040 is the first member of the 68000 family with an on-chip FPU.

In Macintosh computers, the 68040 was primarily used in the high-end Quadra. The fastest 68040, clocked at 40 MHz, was used only in the Quadra 840AV. The more expensive models in the short-lived Centris mid-range also used the 68040.
The 68040 was also used in other personal computers such as the Commodore Amiga 4000, as well as in some workstations and the latest versions of the NeXT computers.

Heat was always a problem with the 68040, but its performance is four times that of the 68020 and 68030 at the same clock.

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Motorola 68040 contemporary microprocessors


Manufacturer: Intel
Launched: 1989
Bits: 32
Clock: 16 MHz
Transistors: 1 200 000
Technology: 1 nanometers
Voltage: 5 V

The Intel 486 processor was the first to offer an integrated math coprocessor (FPU) that significantly accelerated computing operations.

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Other microprocessors in the family of Motorola 68040


Manufacturer: Motorola
Launched: 1979
Bits: 16
Clock: 2 MHz
Transistors: 68 000
Technology: 3 nanometers

It takes its name from the number of transistors it contains.
It was the first in a family of microprocessors that included the Motorola 68008, Motorola 68010, Motorola 68020, Motorola 68030, Motorola 68040, and Motorola 68060 microchips. It was also known as the 68k.
It powered the popular Commodore Amiga and Atari ST computers, and the first Macintosh computers.
It also powered the Sharp X68000 (sold only in Japan) and the first Capcom arcade video game motherboards.

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Manufacturer: Motorola
Launched: 1982
Bits: 16
Clock: 8 MHz
Transistors: 69 000

The Motorola 68010 corrected several bugs of the 68000 and added some features, which allowed it to use paged virtual memory.

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Manufacturer: Motorola
Launched: 1984
Bits: 32
Clock: 12.5 MHz
Transistors: 200 000



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Manufacturer: Motorola
Launched: 1987
Bits: 32
Clock: 16 MHz
Transistors: 273 000

The 68030 is similar to the 68020 but includes an on-chip cache.

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Manufacturer: Motorola
Launched: 1994
Bits: 32
Clock: 50 MHz
Transistors: 2 500 000
Voltage: 3.3 V

The Motorola 68060 was the last of the 68k family. It was two to three times more powerful than its predecessor, the 68040, and featured an integrated floating-point unit (FPU) and memory management unit (MMU).

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Personal computers equipping the microprocessor Motorola 68040


Manufacturer: Commodore
Launches: 1992
Manufactured in US
CPU: Motorola 68040 @ 25MHz
Memory: 2 MB ~ 18 MB
Support: Diskette 3½" DD
Support B: Diskette 3½" DD
Hard drive: None
Operating system: AmigaOS 3.0

It was the most powerful of the Amiga family.

The tower box version was called the Amiga 4000T.

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