Big John, you are way off regarding "What can they do" point 1.
PPC is nothing like Alpha, because it has ancillary markets that
drive it beyond desktop computing. MOT and IBM expect to make
more $$$ in the embedded market than desktop, and IBM also uses
the chips for the midline parallel processing technology. Alpha
is an older technology, pushed to its limits, with only the
workstation market. PPC is an evergrowing family of processors.
In fact, I word argue INTL is in a tough spot, because Merced will
only be manufactured like Alpha, as a high end chip, and INTL will
be pushing two different family of chips for some time. Didn't
work for MOT... Once PPC came out, 68xxx line died pretty quickly.
SGI is history. They have knuckled under to MSFT and will eventually
go the way of DEC. |
