Editing Processor design (section)

====High-end processor economics====
In 1984, most high-performance CPUs required four to five years to develop.<ref>
"New system manages hundreds of transactions per second" article
by Robert Horst and Sandra Metz, of Tandem Computers Inc.,
"Electronics" magazine, 1984 April 19:
"While most high-performance CPUs require four to five years to develop,
The [[NonStop (server computers)|NonStop]] TXP processor took just 2+1/2 years --
six months to develop a complete written specification,
one year to construct a working prototype,
and another year to reach volume production."
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