FOR RELEASE:
January 5, 1999

  Motorola's PowerPC(tm) 750 Microprocessor Gets Boost to 400 MHz

          Customers Benefit from Speed Enhancement and 
                   Significant Price Reductions  

AUSTIN, Texas - Jan. 5, 1999 - Motorola today announced the availability of
the latest edition to the PowerPC 750(tm) family, introducing a 400 MHz
version of the award winning microprocessor.

Designed to maximize system level performance, this newest PowerPC 750
microprocessor gives customers the flexibility to build products such as
high-end desktop solutions and networking and communications devices. 
Motorola has also reduced respective prices of the existing  PowerPC 750
microprocessor family by as much as 26%.

Benefits to Customers
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The jump in performance and simultaneous price reduction of Motorola's PowerPC
750 product line is a winning combination for systems manufacturers.  As
demand on equipment manufacturers to provide improved performance at
competitive prices for their products continues to grow, the Motorola PowerPC
750 microprocessor family price/performance value also continues to meet these
demands.  

"By understanding the needs of our customers, Motorola can best apply its
design and manufacturing technologies to produce microprocessors that enable
customers to deliver exciting and compelling products to the marketplace,"
said Will Swearingen, PowerPC strategic marketing manager for the Motorola
Networking and Computing Systems Group.  "The new 400 MHz version of our
PowerPC 750 processor, designed to meet both the performance and power needs
of our customers, is a good example of the benefits of this approach."

"Today Apple launched the new Power Macintosh G3, forever changing what
customers should expect from a desktop personal computer," said Jon
Rubinstein, Apple's senior vice president of hardware engineering. "Motorola's
400 MHz PowerPC microprocessor delivers Pentium-crushing power, a perfect fit
for the most expandable, beautiful,  and accessible Macintosh we've ever made."

The new 400 MHz PowerPC 750 microprocessors are available today at a suggested
unit list price of $495 in quantities of 1000.  Also, the suggested unit list
price (1000 quantity) of the 366 MHz and the 333 MHz versions of the PowerPC
750 processors have been reduced to $381 and $286 respectively.  This
represents a reduction in price of 26% for the 366 MHz part and 25% for the
333 MHz part compared to fourth quarter 1998 prices.  

Operating at a 3.4 to 5.8 watt typical power dissipation range, the  PowerPC
750 microprocessors have 3.3v I/Os, a 32KB instruction cache, a 32KB data
cache, 6.35 million transistors, and are in 360-pin CBGA (ceramic ball grid
array) packaging.  The 400 MHz PowerPC 750 microprocessor achieves a
performance level on the industry standard SPEC benchmark of 18.8 SPECint95
and 12.2 SPECfp95. 
Motorola 

As the world's #1 producer of embedded processors, Motorola's Semiconductor
Products Sector offers multiple DigitalDNA(tm) solutions which enable its
customers in the consumer, networking and computing, transportation, and
wireless communications markets, to create new business opportunities.
Motorola's semiconductor sales were US $7.3 billion in l998.  

Motorola is a global leader in advanced electronic systems and services.  It
creates software-driven products that provide integrated customer solutions
and Internet access via wireless and satellite communications, as well as
computing, networking, and automotive electronics.  Motorola also liberates
the power of technology by providing essential digital building blocks in the
form of embedded semiconductors, controls and systems. Sales in 1998 were US
$29.4 billion.

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