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To: tejek who wrote (82731)	12/12/1999 11:41:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr	Read Replies (1) of 1572887

Did we miss this article? I got this link from AMD's site ____________________________________________________________ Samsung plans Athlon/Alpha chipset Jon Cassell Dec 07, 1999 --- In a boost for Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s Athlon microprocessor, Samsung Semiconductor plans to manufacture a server-oriented chipset that will support the Athlon. Samsung will begin producing the Caspian chipset, which will be capable of working with both the Ahtlon as well as the Alpha microprocessors, in March 2000. The company will make the Caspian on a foundry basis for Alpha Processor Inc., a fabless semiconductor firm that is jointly owned by Samsung and Compaq Computer Corp. The chipset could pave the way for widespread use of the Athlon by Compaq in its lucrative high-end servers. Compaq boasts a multi-billion dollar business selling Alpha-based servers. Alpha-based designs could easily be modified to use the Athlon. AMD has pinned its hopes on the Athlon to penetrate the high-end computer market. The company's success has been limited to the low-end PC market until now. Samsung and API plan to sell the Caspian on the merchant market. The Caspian will support up to two microprocessors and will work with DDR memory exclusively. In addition to giving a boost to Athlon, Caspian could help to popularize DDR in high end computers at the expense of Rambus. API and Samsung in 2001 will release another Alpha/Athlon chipset called Tasman. Tasman will support up to eight CPUs. Caspian and Tasman arose out of an agreement between Compaq and AMD over the development of high-speed bus designed to link the microprocessor to the system logic. The bus is designed to supports both microprocessor architectures. ednmag.com ____________________________________________________________ This means the Athlon will have 2 way Athlon-compatible chipsets from AMD and Samsung next year. Combine either with DDR SDRAM and Athlons with on-chip cache and the Athlon platform will probably offer awesome performance for high-end workstations and non-high-end servers. And then come the 8-way chipsets from Hotrail and and some time after from Samsung. And after that comes Sledgehammer... It should be interesting to see if AMD can hit the multiple targets they have set up for themselves during these upcoming times. The Alpha version of Win NT is dead right? I wonder if the Athlon (Sledgehammer?) has anything to do with this.

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