The work on V60 processor began in 1982 with about 250 engineers under the leadership of Yoichi Yano, and the processor debuted in February 1986.
It had a six-stage pipeline, built-in memory-management unit, and floating-point arithmetic.
It was manufactured using a two-layer aluminum metal CMOS process technology, under a 1.5 μm design rule, to implement 375,000 transistors on a 13.9 × 13.8 mm² die.
It operates at 5 V and was initially packaged in a 68-pin PGA.
The first version ran at 16 MHz and attained 3.5 MIPS.
Its sample price at launch was set at ¥100,000 ($588.23).
It entered full-scale production in August 1986.

Sega employed this processor for the most of its arcade game sets in the 1990s; both the Sega System 32 and the Sega Model 1 architectures used V60 as their main CPU. (
The latter used the lower-cost μPD70615 variant, which doesn't implement V20/V30 emulation and FRM.)
The V60 was also used as the main CPU in the SSV arcade architecture—so named because it was developed jointly by Seta, Sammy, and Visco.
Sega originally considered using a 16 MHz V60 as the basis for its Sega Saturn console; but after receiving word that the PlayStation employed a 33.8 MHz MIPS R3000A processor, instead chose the dual-SH-2 design for the production model.

In 1988, NEC released a kit called PS98-145-HMW for Unix enthusiasts.
The kit contained a V60 processor board that could be plugged into selected models of the PC-9800 computer series and a distribution of their UNIX System V port, the PC-UX/V Rel 2.0 (V60), on 15 8-inch floppy disks.
The suggested retail price for this kit was 450,000 Yen.
NEC-group companies themselves intensively employed the V60 processor.
Their telephone circuit switcher (exchange), which was one of the first intended targets, used V60.
In 1991, they expanded their word processor products line with Bungou Mini (文豪ミニ in Japanese) series 5SX, 7SX, and 7SD, which used the V60 for fast outline font processing, while the main system processor was a 16 MHz NEC V33.
In addition, V60 microcode variants were employed in NEC's MS-4100 minicomputer series, which was the fastest one in Japan at that time.
The work on V60 processor began in 1982 with about 250 engineers under the leadership of Yoichi Yano, and the processor debuted in February 1986. It had a six-stage pipeline, built-in memory-management unit, and floating-point arithmetic. It was manufactured using a two-layer aluminum metal CMOS process technology, under a 1.5 μm design rule, to implement 375,000 transistors on a 13.9 × 13.8 mm² die. It operates at 5 V and was initially packaged in a 68-pin PGA. The first version ran at 16 MHz and attained 3.5 MIPS. Its sample price at launch was set at ¥100,000 ($588.23). It entered full-scale production in August 1986.
Sega employed this processor for the most of its arcade game sets in the 1990s; both the Sega System 32 and the Sega Model 1 architectures used V60 as their main CPU. (The latter used the lower-cost μPD70615 variant, which doesn't implement V20/V30 emulation and FRM.) The V60 was also used as the main CPU in the SSV arcade architecture—so named because it was developed jointly by Seta, Sammy, and Visco. Sega originally considered using a 16 MHz V60 as the basis for its Sega Saturn console; but after receiving word that the PlayStation employed a 33.8 MHz MIPS R3000A processor, instead chose the dual-SH-2 design for the production model.
In 1988, NEC released a kit called PS98-145-HMW for Unix enthusiasts. The kit contained a V60 processor board that could be plugged into selected models of the PC-9800 computer series and a distribution of their UNIX System V port, the PC-UX/V Rel 2.0 (V60), on 15 8-inch floppy disks. The suggested retail price for this kit was 450,000 Yen. NEC-group companies themselves intensively employed the V60 processor. Their telephone circuit switcher (exchange), which was one of the first intended targets, used V60. In 1991, they expanded their word processor products line with Bungou Mini (文豪ミニ in Japanese) series 5SX, 7SX, and 7SD, which used the V60 for fast outline font processing, while the main system processor was a 16 MHz NEC V33. In addition, V60 microcode variants were employed in NEC's MS-4100 minicomputer series, which was the fastest one in Japan at that time.
NEC V60