Scumby - CHEAPM ALphas are on their way - IN VOLUME !
Check this out - a 500 MHz Alpha (Same as Pentium III !) plus a motherboard are going for the unbelievably cheap price of ONLY....$5,350 each .......If you order 1000 of them !
This really ought to knock Intel out of business !
Paul
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Story posted 11 a.m./8 a.m., PST, 2/2/99
Alpha Processor begins volume
production of 64-bit MPU
CONCORD, Mass. -- Alpha Processor Inc. here has begun full
production of its third-generation Alpha 21264 microprocessor. Rated at
speeds of 500 and 600 megahertz, the 64-bit 21264 is aimed at
performance-driven applications such as digital media creation,
transaction processing, computer-aided design (CAD), and enterprise
servers running on the Microsoft Windows NT and Linux operating
systems.
"This introduction represents a significant milestone for Alpha
Processor Inc. and our customers. The general availability of the Alpha
21264 sets a new standard for departmental server performance," said
Gerry Talbot, chief technology officer of Alpha Processor, which was
formed last year out of Compaq Computer Corp.'s acquisition of Digital
Equipment Corp. and also counts Samsung Electronics as a backer.
"Users of this technology will recognize a tremendous increase in
speed, power and throughput."
"Our company supplies products to the CAD market that rely heavily on
a solution that combines leading-edge software with state-of-the art
hardware," said Shawn Harty, president of New Technology Solutions
Inc., a CAD system OEM in Tewksbury, Mass. "An organization like
Alpha Processor, dedicated to providing fast, reliable microprocessors
and platforms is essential to meeting the performance demands our
customers require."
Alpha Processor also announced its first AlphaPC 264DP
dual-processor-capable motherboard, which can accept two Alpha
21264 microprocessor daughter cards, supports 4 gigabytes of main
memory, and utilizes Compaq Computer Corp.'s 21272
high-performance chip set. According to SPECint95 and SPECfp95
benchmarks, the 500-MHz uniprocessor system doubles the
performance of the previous generation Alpha 21164.
In quantities of 1,000, Alpha Processor's motherboards, with 500-MHz
21264 chip, are priced at $5,350 and $5,757 for configurations with 2 or
4 Mbytes of L2 cache, respectively. CPU daughter cards with the same
configuration are $2,643 and $3,050, respectively. |
