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To: Rob Young who wrote (61873)	6/15/1999 4:33:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571830

Re: "By the way, Intel is fabbing .18 now. Intel is under contract to fab parts for Alpha. Intel will be doing the aluminum .18 Alpha parts, right? Certainly not copper as Intel's roadmap shows copper showing up in .13 micron." It is not clear what Intel's responsibilities are in regards to the DEC settlement. Intel operates the former DEC fab and it's possible their fab obligations are limited to that fab and that process. If anyone knows more please post. EP

To: Rob Young who wrote (61873)	6/16/1999 12:19:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571830

Rob - Re: "500 MHz. Now the question is how do these workstations perform as a system. What bandwidth main memory to CPU? L2 cache speed and size, SpecInt and SpecFp, AIM. In other words, things that matter at a workstation level. Your point is?" My point is that the 21264 ALpha seems to be a might crippled - with $7500 workstations being too expensive with only a 500 MHz Alpha. Who's buying these "down-binned" WS's anyhow ? Re: "So what is your point re: copper?" If Compaq is rapidly trying to get "copper" for the Alpha, they must know something that you don't know. Paul