Sunnyvalebased Advanced Micro Devices Inc has more reason to feel pleased with itself than for a long time, having won a bluechip client for its Am29000 RISC microprocessor, and another skirmish in its court battle with Intel Corp. In yet another reverse for Motorola Inc, HewlettPackard Co yesterday announced the LaserJet IIISi, its first laser printer to use a RISC as the basis of the controller. The Am29000 RISC is claim-ed to enable the 300dpi printer to operate at up to 17 pages per minute: the IIISi is designed to format and print any document, including text, complex graphics, scalable typefaces, large fonts, PostScript and PCL 5 files, at true engine speed, or within the time it takes physically to move the page through the printer. PCL 5 features built-in HP-GL/2 vector graphics and Intellifont typeface-scaling technology for on-the-fly scaling from one-quarter to 999.75 points in quarter-point increments. Resolution Enhancement technology in combination with new microfine toner is claimed to ena-ble the printer to produce print quality comparable with that of many higher resolution printers. It is designed to be shared, does 50,000 pages a month, is $5,500.
