Motorola 88000 family

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RISC microprocessor architecture cache and memory management unit microprocessor microprocessor family

The Motorola 88000 family is a RISC-based microprocessor line developed by Motorola as a high-performance follow-up to its earlier 68000 series, aimed primarily at workstations and embedded systems.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Motorola 88000	7
Motorola 88000 family canonical	1
Motorola 88000-family processors	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T300029 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Motorola 88000 family
Context triple: [Motorola 68000 family, successor, Motorola 88000 family]

A. Motorola 68000 family
The Motorola 68000 family is a line of 16/32-bit CISC microprocessors widely used in early personal computers, workstations, and game consoles during the 1980s and early 1990s.
B. PowerPC
PowerPC is a RISC-based microprocessor architecture developed in the early 1990s by the AIM alliance (Apple, IBM, and Motorola) and used in a wide range of computers, embedded systems, and game consoles.
C. Motorola VMEbus systems
Motorola VMEbus systems are modular, high-performance embedded computer platforms based on the VMEbus standard, widely used in industrial, military, and telecommunications applications.
D. AltiVec
AltiVec is a vector processing extension for the PowerPC architecture that accelerates multimedia, signal processing, and other parallelizable computations.
E. Sharp X68000
The Sharp X68000 is a Japanese home computer and gaming system from the late 1980s and early 1990s, renowned for its advanced graphics and sound capabilities that made it a premier platform for high-quality arcade game ports.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Motorola 88000 family
Target entity description: The Motorola 88000 family is a RISC-based microprocessor line developed by Motorola as a high-performance follow-up to its earlier 68000 series, aimed primarily at workstations and embedded systems.

A. Motorola 68000 family
The Motorola 68000 family is a line of 16/32-bit CISC microprocessors widely used in early personal computers, workstations, and game consoles during the 1980s and early 1990s.
B. PowerPC
PowerPC is a RISC-based microprocessor architecture developed in the early 1990s by the AIM alliance (Apple, IBM, and Motorola) and used in a wide range of computers, embedded systems, and game consoles.
C. Motorola VMEbus systems
Motorola VMEbus systems are modular, high-performance embedded computer platforms based on the VMEbus standard, widely used in industrial, military, and telecommunications applications.
D. AltiVec
AltiVec is a vector processing extension for the PowerPC architecture that accelerates multimedia, signal processing, and other parallelizable computations.
E. Sharp X68000
The Sharp X68000 is a Japanese home computer and gaming system from the late 1980s and early 1990s, renowned for its advanced graphics and sound capabilities that made it a premier platform for high-quality arcade game ports.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	RISC microprocessor architecture ⓘ cache and memory management unit ⓘ microprocessor ⓘ microprocessor ⓘ microprocessor family ⓘ
addressSpace	32-bit linear address space ⓘ
architecture	Motorola 88000 family self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Motorola 88000 Motorola 88000 family self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Motorola 88000
architectureType	RISC ⓘ
competedWith	IBM RS/6000 systems ⓘ surface form: IBM POWER architecture Intel i860 ⓘ MIPS ⓘ surface form: MIPS architecture SPARC microprocessor architecture ⓘ surface form: SPARC architecture
designedFor	MC88100 ⓘ
developer	Motorola ⓘ
endianness	big-endian ⓘ
endOfMainCommercialUseDecade	1990s ⓘ
hasMember	MC88100 ⓘ MC88110 ⓘ MC88200 ⓘ
hasSeparateUnit	floating-point unit ⓘ integer unit ⓘ
influenced	PowerPC ⓘ surface form: PowerPC architecture
instructionSetDesign	load-store architecture ⓘ
integrates	cache ⓘ floating-point unit ⓘ integer unit ⓘ
intendedSuccessorOf	Motorola 68000 family ⓘ surface form: Motorola 68000 Motorola 68020 microprocessor ⓘ surface form: Motorola 68020 Motorola 68030 microprocessor ⓘ surface form: Motorola 68030
introducedInDecade	1980s ⓘ
marketedAs	high-performance RISC processor ⓘ
pipelineDepth	multiple-stage pipeline ⓘ
provides	memory management ⓘ on-chip cache ⓘ
status	discontinued ⓘ
supports	hardware floating-point (with appropriate unit) ⓘ superscalar execution ⓘ superscalar execution (limited) ⓘ virtual memory (with MMU) ⓘ
targetMarket	UNIX workstations ⓘ embedded control ⓘ telecommunications equipment ⓘ
usedIn	embedded systems ⓘ workstations ⓘ
wordSize	32-bit ⓘ 32-bit ⓘ 32-bit ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Motorola 68000 family → successor → Motorola 88000 family ⓘ

Motorola 88000 family → architecture → Motorola 88000 family self-linksurface differs ⓘ

subject surface form: MC88100