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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Paul Engel who wrote (75894)	10/18/1999 4:47:00 PM
From: Rob Young	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572953

<At least Merced is OUT, functional and running 64 bit Operating Systems !> Alpha has been out and about and running 64-bit OSes since 1992. <And now Alpha is DELAYED and requires a bail-out from some exotic process improvements which are sure to INCREASE the schedule slippages and DRAMATICALLY DRIVE UP the costs.> Alpha 21264 in various forms has been delayed. I thought I said a while ago we expect to see 833 MHz parts in a November/December timeframe. Publically, I believe Compaq is committed to 1 GHz 1Q 2000, that would have to be .18 micron 21264. Who is fabbing that? I don't know. Maybe IBM, maybe Samsung. Samsung according to an Alpha OEM is talking up 1.5 GHz copper-SOI parts for 3rd quarter 2000. Given that is a year off , maybe that slips and slides. Schedule slipping and what not shouldn't effect price. Remember, Samsung is flush with cash now. Besides, what should a 110 mm2 part cost to manufacture? Sure, testing and all that but you can squeeze quite a few on to 8-inch wafers and if you aren't as aggressive with the GHz... quite a few will easily bin at 1 GHz. Rob....Alpha is a sink hole . We shall see won't we? We'll see just how cheap Samsung is willing to go too, won't we? Rob