Intel Investors - Intel Helps Out Hewlett Packard -
" Hewlett-Packard executives said the company is
about four months ahead of schedule with
general availability of its next-generation RISC
processors, as they unveiled new workstations
Monday.
Barry Crume, HP's product marketing manager
for the company's workstation systems division,
said manufacturing of the chips, with on-chip
cache, has enabled the company to leapfrog its
own timetable for mass shipment of the chips for
lower-end machines.
"The 8500 will proliferate throughout the line,"
Crume said. "We've got the processors, and
we're going to put them into something.
The chip will have a clock speed of 367 MHz with
1.5 megabytes of on-chip cache in a four-way
configuration. "
Intel fabricates the PA-Risc 8500 for HP on Intel's 0.25 micron process.
Note the 1.5 Megabytes of ON-CHIP CACHE , courtesy of Intel's high yielding process.
Intel will deliver this on-chip cache to x86 customers using the new 0.18 micron process - in just a few more months.
Paul
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HP Ships Workstations, New Chips Early
By Edward F. Moltzen, Computer Reseller News
Dec 8, 1998 (1:12 PM)
URL: techweb.com
Hewlett-Packard executives said the company is about four months ahead of schedule with general availability of its next-generation RISC processors, as they unveiled new workstations Monday. The Palo
Alto, Calif., company will ship its HP Visualize Model C360 workstation early next year. The model effectively will take the place of HP models C200 and C240.
Barry Crume, HP's product marketing manager for the company's workstation systems division, said manufacturing of the chips, with on-chip cache, has enabled the company to leapfrog its own timetable
for mass shipment of the chips for lower-end machines.
"The 8500 will proliferate throughout the line," Crume said. "We've got the processors, and we're going to put them into something."
The chip will have a clock speed of 367 MHz with 1.5 megabytes of on-chip cache in a four-way configuration.
The EDA version of the workstation -- a C360 with Visualize-EG, 256 MB of RAM, a 4-gigabyte disk, and a 21-inch monitor -- will be priced at $22,400.
The MDA version -- with Visualize-fx2 graphics, 256 MB of RAM, a 4-GB disk, a 21-inch monitor, and localization kit -- will be shipped at a price of $24,500.
"Hewlett-Packard, in general, makes quality products," said Tom Cusano, sales manager for The Logical Choice, a Charlotte, N.C.-based reseller.
"I'm sure this will be very well-received in the marketplace," Cusano said. "They stack up very well [against the competition]. Their main competitor is Intergraph, but HP utilizes the HP Visualize graphics
card ... and as far as graphics resolution, they stack up very well."
In the second quarter, HP maintained a 22.3 percent share of the worldwide workstation market -- second only to competitor Sun Microsystems, also of Palo Alto, which maintained 36.2 percent share,
according to market researcher Dataquest, in San Jose, Calif. |
