Motorola's 68HC12 line boosts performance up to 10 times. Hitachi SH-4 gets graphically superscalar. LSI's TinyRisc core shrinks code size. Mitsubishi mixes microprocessor, memory. Sun reveals first Java processor core.
Embedded vendors seek differentiation.
Hitachi SH7750 shines for Sega. ARM7, ARM9 cores to include cache. Biggest PowerPC drives auto engine. MMC2001 launches M.Core odyssey. Motorola adds midrange network chips.