Joseph A. Sgro, chief executive officer of Alacron (Nashua, NH), examined the impact of future

Joseph A. Sgro, chief executive officer of Alacron, examined the impact of future microprocessors on machine-vision technology. He presented the tabulated performances of the latest microprocessors from Analog Devices, Intel Corp., Philips Semiconductor, and Texas Instruments functioning in a high-input/output application, a balanced input/output and computational application, and a demanding input/output and computational application. These applications illustrated how memory bandwidth and proc