Eagle, Elite Microelectronics’ debut product offers computer OEMs 8.3 MIPS system performance with an upgrade path to higher speeds at a lower cost than previously available says the newcomer breathlessly and almost completely incomprehensibly: once it has calmed down and got its breath back, Elite Microelectronics Inc goes on to explain that it was founded in San Jose last year to provide manufacturers of personal computers with building block chip sets, and that its first product is a two-chip set that is designed to provide the core logic functions required by board and system manufacturers to build 33MHz cache-based 80386 AT-alikes with minimum chip count; the set, samples of which are available now, costs $168 for 1,000-up, and the company claims that system motherboard can be built with as few as 25 components including CPU, Eagle chip set, BIOS, keyboard controller, integrated peripheral controller and a few discrete TTI devices; Eagle provides CPU bus control, DRAM control, and data conversion between the various buses as well as an integrated cache controller.
