MP6
- TSMC[1]
00000521 (Lynx)[2]
- 1
- BGA-387
- CGPA-296
- Super Socket 7
- Kirin
- Lynx
The Rise mP6 was a superpipelined and superscalar[3] microprocessor designed by Rise Technology to compete with the Intel Pentium line.
History
Rise Technology had spent 5 years developing a x86 compatible microprocessor,[4] and finally introduced it in November 1998 as a low-cost, low-power alternative for the Super Socket 7 platform, that allowed for higher Front-side bus speeds than the previous Socket 7 and that made it possible for other CPU manufacturers to keep competing against Intel, that had moved to the Slot 1 platform.
Design
The mP6 made use of the MMX instruction set and had three MMX pipelines which allowed the CPU to execute up to three MMX instructions in a single cycle. Its three integer units made it possible to execute three integer instructions in a single cycle as well and the fully pipelined floating point unit could execute up to two floating-point instructions per cycle. To further improve the performance the core utilized branch prediction and a number of techniques to resolve data dependency conflicts.[3] According to Rise, the mP6 should perform almost as fast as Intel Pentium II at the same frequencies.[5]
Performance
Despite its innovative features, the real-life performance of the mP6 proved disappointing. This was mainly due to the small L1 Cache.[5] Another reason was that the Rise mP6's PR 266 rating was based upon the old Intel Pentium MMX,[5] while its main competitors were the Intel Celeron 266, the IDT WinChip 2-266 and the AMD K6-2 266, that all delivered more performance in most benchmarks and applications.[5] The Celeron and the K6-2 actually worked at 266 MHz, and the WinChip 2's PR rating was based upon the performance of its AMD opponent.[5]
Use
Announced in 1998, the chip never achieved widespread use,[citation needed] and Rise quietly exited the market in December of the following year.
Like competitors Cyrix and IDT, Rise found it was unable to compete with Intel and AMD.
Legacy
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/DM%26P_Vortex86DX.jpg/110px-DM%26P_Vortex86DX.jpg)
Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) licensed the mP6 technology, and used it in the SiS 550, a system-on-a-chip (SoC) that integrated the mP6 CPU, the north and south bridges, and sound and video on a single chip. The SiS 550 saw use in some compact PCs and in consumer devices, such as DVD players. The SiS 551 chip was also marketed by DM&P as Vortex86 (M6127D).
Later DM&P took over mP6 design from SiS and continues development under Vortex86 SoC product line.
DM&P further signed an agreement with Xcore to allow them to rebrand the chip as Xcore86.[6]
mP6 data
Model number | Frequency | L1 Cache | FSB | Mult. | Voltage | TDP | Socket | Release date | Part number(s) | Introduction price |
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PR 166 | 166 MHz | 8 (data) + 8 (instructions) KB | 83 Mhz | 2× | 2.75–2.85 V | 7.28 W | Super Socket 7 BGA 387 PPGA 296 | 13 October 1998 | MP6441RPFE4-Q | $50 |
PR 233 | 190 MHz | 8 (data) + 8 (instructions) KB | 95 Mhz | 2× | 2.75–2.85 V | 8.11 W | Super Socket 7 BGA 387 PPGA 296 | 13 October 1998 | ||
PR 266 | 200 MHz | 8 (data) + 8 (instructions) KB | 100 Mhz | 2× | 2.75–2.85 V] | 8.54 W] | Super Socket 7 BGA 387 PPGA 296 | 13 October 1998 | MP6441DPFH4-Q MP6441RPFH4-Q | $70 |
PR 333 | 240 MHz | 8 (data) + 8 (instructions) KB | 95 Mhz | 2.5× | 2 V | 10.18 W | Super Socket 7 BGA 387 PPGA 296 | 26 May 1999 Samples only | MP65RPAPG5-ES | |
PR 366[7] | 250 MHz | 8 (data) + 8 (instructions) KB | 100 Mhz | 2.5× | V | 10.72 W | Super Socket 7 BGA 387 PPGA 296 | 26 May 1999 Samples only | MP65RPAPH5-DS |
References
- ^ "32 BITS: SUPERSCALAR: 4.26. Rise iDragon mP6". Archived from the original on 21 April 2012. Retrieved 3 November 2011.
- ^ "x86, x64 Instruction Latency, Memory Latency and CPUID dumps". 22 October 2011. Retrieved 3 November 2011.
- ^ a b c Shvets, Gennadiy (8 October 2011). "Rise Technology MP6 family". CPU World. Retrieved 1 November 2011.
- ^ "Rise mP6". CPU-collection.de. Retrieved 1 November 2011.
- ^ a b c d e f Gravrichenkov, Ilya (15 May 1999). "Rise mP6 266 Review". X-bit Laboratories. Archived from the original on 7 May 2009. Retrieved 1 November 2011.
- ^ Xcore Corporation Ltd. has entered into an agreement with DMP Electronics Inc. Archived 2009-04-04 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Shvets, Gennadiy (8 October 2011). "Rise Technology MP6 PR 366". CPU World. Retrieved 1 November 2011.
External links
- CPU-INFO: Rise MP6, indepth processor history
- mP6
- The Rise of the Vortex86: Embedded x86 Processors