Motorola 68040

processor A microprocessor from Motorola. It was the

successor to the Motorola 68030 and was followed by the

Motorola 68060.

The 68040 (but not the 680EC40) was the first 680x0 family

member with an on-chip FPU. It also had split instruction

and data caches of 4 kilobytes(?) each. It was fully

pipelined, with six stages.

The 68040 was used in the Apple Macintosh Quadra series of

personal computers.

(2001-03-11)