Apple Computer Inc may have eschewed the Motorola Inc 68060 microprocessor for the Macintosh line, but for those that despite all evidence mistrust Macs driven by these new-fangled PowerPC RISCs, it seems there will be a 68060 upgrade option. According to MacWeek, a company based in exotically-named Flowery Branch, Georgia, DayStar Digital Inc, is working on a line of Maccelerator boards that will use the 68060 and go into both 68040- and 68030-based Macs, with ships planned for the summer. The 68060 is a low power consumption 3.3V part claimed to deliver three times the performance of the 25MHz 68040. Motorola describes the 68060 as a superscalar, superpipelined part and rates it at 100 MIPS, 15 MFLOPS; it is fabricated in 0.8 micron CMOS, includes two 8Kb caches on chip and is initially offered in 66MHz and 50MHz versions (CI No 2,153).
