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To: Richard Forsythe who wrote (6412)12/14/1996 12:31:00 PM
From: Mark Brophy   of 186894
 
Re: "That leaves DEC and Intel"

This situation reminds me of the Agatha Christie novel, "And Then
There Were None".

On Oct. 28, I posted a competitive analysis between Alpha and PPro
at techstocks.com and
reached the following conclusion:

It looks to me like DEC needs to drop their prices 15% and improve
their integer performance. They're not currently competitive, but
they're close enough to bear watching.

The new price for the Alpha-366 drops to $495 from $950 and the
Alpha-433 MHz falls to $750 from $1,492. If we assume that the MB
vendor doubles the CPU price and passes the reduction on to the
customer, the Alpha-366 MB price falls from $3530 to $2630 and the
Alpha-433 MB falls from $4430 to $2930. Here's the updated table of
price/performance:

System Price SPECint SPECfp $/int $/fp
200 MHz PPro $1,710 8.1 6.7 211 255
300 MHz PPro 12.1 10.0
Alpha-366 $2,630 10.1 14.2 260 185
Alpha-433 $2,930 13.6 16.2 215 211

The benchmarks are from www.specbench.org, except the 300 MHz PPro,
which I assumed is 150% of the 200MHz PPro. It will probably be higher
with a larger L1 cache. The integer performance will probably be
similar to a Alpha-433 and the floating point performance will be
similar to an Alpha-266. DEC has to worry about Intel's price, not
performance.

The Alpha-433 is currently the price/performance leader for people
who need high performance systems. This could change in Feb. after
Intel cuts prices.
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