carmel_andrews #1 Posted December 13, 2011 Like it says on the tin....Any news of WDC's Terbium/Terium Processor (or the 32bit version of the 6502/65816 etc) As I seem to remember a thread or two here about it Sounded like an interesting processor, combined with the various and all A8 hardware upgrades it could make the centrepiece of an A8 cum 32bit system Bearing in mind ofcourse that the various and all '816' upgrades have been with us since 1987/8 and are looking a bit long in the tooth and it seemed that the terbium/terium or whatever they were going to call it sounded like the next logical upgrade Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rybags #2 Posted December 13, 2011 It's coming out next year. Apparently they settled on the name "Dertibum". An A8 upgrade is in the works... stay tuned for "Project TeePee". 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bryan #3 Posted December 13, 2011 Dertibum? As in "Dirty Bum"? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+Stephen #4 Posted December 13, 2011 Dertibum? As in "Dirty Bum"? Wow - that's worse than Wii Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
oky2000 #5 Posted December 13, 2011 Dertibum? As in "Dirty Bum"? Wow - that's worse than Wii What if you had both? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bryan #6 Posted December 13, 2011 Dertibum? As in "Dirty Bum"? Wow - that's worse than Wii What if you had both? Ah, the Irish version, A wee dirty bum! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+remowilliams #7 Posted December 13, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svwGRJA28lY 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
flashjazzcat #8 Posted December 13, 2011 :rolling: :rolling: :rolling: :rolling: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
flashjazzcat #9 Posted December 13, 2011 (edited) I just did a forum search for "Terium" [sic] and all the forum posts mentioning the chip appear to have been posted by Carmel. Edited December 13, 2011 by flashjazzcat Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+CyranoJ #10 Posted December 14, 2011 I just did a forum search for "Terium" [sic] and all the forum posts mentioning the chip appear to have been posted by Carmel. There you go then, must be true! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
andym00 #11 Posted December 14, 2011 There are development kits for the Terbium family available on the WDC site.. http://www.westerndesigncenter.com/wdc/tdk.cfm (null) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ANTIQ #12 Posted December 14, 2011 16-bit @ 42MHz Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jetboot Jack #13 Posted December 14, 2011 As I seem to remember a thread or two here about it Why "seem to remember" when you can search and ask the posters directly? sTeVE Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+remowilliams #14 Posted December 14, 2011 Why "seem to remember" when you can search and ask the posters directly? I just did a forum search for "Terium" [sic] and all the forum posts mentioning the chip appear to have been posted by Carmel. Or why not make a hand puppet and ask yourself? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
www.atarimania.com #15 Posted December 14, 2011 Actually, it was called the Delirium. -- Atari Frog http://www.atarimania.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bryan #16 Posted December 15, 2011 Remo is right. I am a retard. I just got Gary's joke. I think I read the forum too fast when I'm at work. Yeah, that's it... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fibrewire #17 Posted December 15, 2011 I contacted the developer of the Turbinan chip. Here's a helpful video. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JamesD #18 Posted December 18, 2011 As I said before, I downloaded literature talking about the planned CPU a long time ago. A short while later their developer tool gets renamed what the CPU code name had been and all Terbium CPU info disappears from the website. That was what? 10 years ago? And the CPU was originally planned 15 years ago? Face it, the project got canned. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rybags #19 Posted December 18, 2011 The 6502 has done well to survive as far as it has. It quite possibly is the most common CPU in existence when you count the successors and imbedded applications. But there's stiff competition from the likes of PICs, Propeller, AVRs and these other doodads that have onboard Java processing. It wasn't so long ago that Intel discontinued it's imbedded version of the '286 (or was it '386 ?) - so the 6502 will outlive that by a good 15 years or more. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+GroovyBee #20 Posted December 18, 2011 It quite possibly is the most common CPU in existence when you count the successors and imbedded applications. I think that honour goes to the 8051 which has shipped several billion units since it came out in 1980. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
andym00 #21 Posted December 18, 2011 It quite possibly is the most common CPU in existence when you count the successors and imbedded applications. I think that honour goes to the 8051 which has shipped several billion units since it came out in 1980. Surely ARM gets that with their January 2011 report that they'd shipped 15 Billion processors.. Which is a staggering number quite frankly! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+GroovyBee #22 Posted December 18, 2011 Surely ARM gets that with their January 2011 report that they'd shipped 15 Billion processors.. Which is a staggering number quite frankly! Thats an impressive number. However I was trying to compare 8 bitters . Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fibrewire #23 Posted August 20, 2013 Any update on this CPU? I noticed earlier in this thread the availability of a development kit, but I can't seem to find it now. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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