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Motorola 68060

Motorola 68060

Motorola 68060 microprocessor technical specifications

Developed by: Motorola
Launched: 1994
ALU bits: 32
Clock: 50 MHz until 75 MHz
Family: 68k
Bus: 32 bits
Mem. Address: 32 bits
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).

It was used in some late-model Amiga machines, but Apple abandoned the 680X0 family in favor of PowerPC chips, and the Unix world had moved on to other RISC platforms.

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Motorola 68060 contemporary microprocessors


Manufacturer: Intel
Launched: 1993
Bits: 32
Clock: 60 MHz
Transistors: 3 100 000
Technology: 0.8 nanometers

The Pentium microprocessor had an architecture capable of executing two operations at once.
The Pentium's introduction was intended to eliminate competitors producing clone microprocessors, such as AMD (Advanced Micro Devices), which created the K5, or Cyrix, which produced very good 486s.

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Other microprocessors in the family of Motorola 68060


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: 1990
Bits: 32
Clock: 25 MHz
Transistors: 1 200 000

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

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