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Press Release-March 1996

           WDC RE-INTRODUCES THE W65C02S FOR THE NEXT MILLENNIUM!

MESA, Arizona- The Western Design Center, Inc. introduces its .8u product
line for low power and increased performance.  This family of 8-bit data bus 
microprocessing products includes advanced ASIC modules of MPU, MCU, RAM, ROM,
and I/O (W65C22S) for embedded design.

       SUPPORT FROM THE ORIGINAL SOURCE OF PATENTED CMOS 6502 TECHNOLOGY

       LEGENDARY 8-BIT DATA BUS ARCHITECTURE

       16 MHz (8 MIPS PEAK PERFORMANCE) W65C02S AND W65C816S MICROPROCESSORS

       8 MHz (4 MIPS PEAK PERFORMANCE) W65C134S AND W65C265S MICROCONTROLLERS

       MANUALLY OPTIMIZED .8u DESIGNS FOR STANDARDIZATION AND COMPATIBILITY 

          SMALL MODULE SIZE - 66x48 mils/1.67x1.23mm for 65C02C (core module) 
          LOW GATE COUNT - 3244 gates for 65C02C 
          LOWER POWER CORES - 2mW/MIPS at 3.3V for 65C02C 
          LOW COST, ROYALTY- BASED LICENSING AVAILABLE 
          ASIC MODULES 
          RICH INSTRUCTION SET 
          WDC FOUNDRY INDEPENDENT DESIGN RULES 
          TECHNOLOGY INDEPENDENT MODELS 
          MIGRATION OF ASIC PATH COUPLED WITH FACTORY DEPENDENT EEPROM, SRAM,
          A/D, D/A, LCD, etc. MODULES 



The 65C02 architecture represents one of the world's largest installed bases
of 8-bit data bus technology, with a strongly dominated use by the Japanese
in many consumer products. Its general purpose control functions have been
proven ideal for applications in the consumer, medical, industrial, controls,
automotive, and telecommunications fields. Those who thought the 8-bit data
bus was obsolete, will be interested to know (1) the worldwide 8-bit
microcontroller shipments tripled from $588M in 1990 to $1,803M in 1995;
and (2) these 8-bit market quantities represent a sales increase from $2,077M
to $5,634M for the same period*. All WDC microprocessors and
microcontrollers have 8-bit data buses for low power and retain high
performance (8 MIPS) due to its legendary instruction set, address modes and 
pipelined architecture. The 6502 has been identified by some, including
Microprocessor Report (12/90), as the first 8-bit RISC microprocessor. The
W65C02S, W65C816S, W65C134S, and W65C265S are immediately available with 100K
price ranging from $2-10. 
* Source: WSTS & ICE - 1995

See http://www.wdesignc.com/new.html