Current Status
Because of its high performance in calculating XOR values, the Intel 960 processor family is often used to control higher-end, RAID capable SCSI disk array host adapter cards as well as Digital Equipment/Compaq/HP's high end SCSI and DSSI and eventually Fibre Channel HSx series standalone raid controllers
An i960RS chip also powers Adaptec's AAR-2400A controller, which uses four commodity parallel ATA drives to build an affordable RAID-5 protected fault tolerant storage system for small PC servers and workstations.
The Intel 960 was also used in some Brocade Fibre Channel switches to run Fabric OS.
The Intel 960 architecture is also used in slot machines. Currently they are found in IGT's Stepper S2000 family and i960 video family. It was also used as the main CPU of Sega's famous Model 2 series of arcade boards.
The Indian HAL Tejas light combat aircraft's MMR (multi-mode radar) is said to use the i960. Full adoption of the HAL Tejas into Indian Air Force service might only occur around 2010.
The Indian Space Research Organisation is said to use the chip in its on board computers in its launch vehicles.
Intel 960 processor is also used in Automatic Radar Plotting Aid (ARPA) interfacing boards of radars from Kelvin Hughes.
It was also used on some HP X-Terminals.
Some SATA RAID controllers use Intel 80303 IOP (Intelligent I/O Processor) which integrates PCI-to-PCI bridge, memory controller and 80960JT-100 CPU core.
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