Intel i960
Intel i960HA microprocessor | |
| General information | |
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| Launched | April 6, 1988 |
| Discontinued | 2007 |
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| Performance | |
| Max. CPU clock rate | 10 MHz to 100 MHz |
| Data width | 32 bits (33 bits in Extended architecture) |
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Intel's i960 (or 80960) is a RISC-based microprocessor design that became popular during the early 1990s as an embedded microcontroller. It became a best-selling CPU in that segment, along with the competing AMD 29000. In spite of its success, Intel stopped marketing the i960 in the late 1990s, as a result of a settlement with DEC whereby Intel received the rights to produce the StrongARM CPU. The processor continues to be used for a few military applications.