Artifact Details

Title

Silicon Graphics TFP micro-supercomputer chipset

Catalog Number

102624794

Type

Moving Image

Description

From University Video Communications' catalog:

"The Silicon Graphics TFP microprocessor is a superscalar implementation of the MIPS instruction set architecture targeted at floating point intensive applications. Highlights include a four-issue instruction unit with branch prediction, a split-level interleaved cache that sustains two loads or stores per cycle, and a 300 mflops floating point unit."

Date

1993

Credits

Hsu, Tek

Publisher

University Video Communications

Duration

00:35:00

Format

Betacam SP

Copyright Holder

Computer History Museum

Category

Lecture

Series Title

University Video Communications: Hot Chips Conference

Credit

Gift of University Video Communications

Lot Number

X6636.2013