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To: K. M. Strickler who wrote (17128)	2/9/1998 9:04:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

Intel got manufacturing rights to the Alpha in the agreement. Which hasn't been approved yet. Jim

To: K. M. Strickler who wrote (17128)	2/9/1998 9:38:00 PM
From: Charles Skeen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

Let me repeat, once again, some of the specifics of the INTC-DEC deal. Intel gets the manufacturing plant and a licensing agreement to use certain DEC technology. DEC gets $700 million, licensing fees, discounts on future chip purchases, and an agreement by Intel to manufacture the Alpha chip. DEC keeps the rights to the Alpha and the design team. Incidently, how's this for speed? See the following excerpts from a news item released today: <<< MAYNARD, MASSACHUSETTS, U.S.A., 1998 FEB 9 (Newsbytes) . . After nailing down an $11 million contract from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Digital Equipment Corp. [NYSE:DEC] is looking at providing government as well as commercial customers with Alpha-based systems offering 10 to 30 times as much processing power as today's supercomputers by early in the 21st century. Digital won the $11 million bid from the DOE's Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI) PathForward program over competing proposals from IBM, Sun, and Silicon Graphics (SGI), said Bill Blake, director of high performance technical computing, in an interview with Newsbytes. Blake told Newsbytes that ASCI offered the contract to find a way of testing the nation's nuclear stockpile . . . computer systems available today do not offer nearly the processing power or throughput needed for this sort of . . simulation . .. Targeted for . . the year 2003 or 2004, the system is . . able to tie together 256 AlphaServer SMP (symmetric multiprocessing) nodes, for processing speeds of 100 teraflops per second. . . Digital intends to use a future version of its just announced 21264 third-generation Alpha processor in the . . configuration for the DOE.>>> Hope this helps, Charlie.