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

To: Ali Chen who wrote (32137)	4/23/1998 6:52:00 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583523

Alpha is a formidable competitor for the non-existent and delayed HP/Intel "Merced" chip. Notice the quote from Ali's reference: The 21264 is also slot compatible with the K7 microprocessor from AMD, giving OEMs a single motherboard solution to cover a range of price points. "We're pleased to be part of this new open industry standard platform where OEMs and end-users can choose any price and performance on the same motherboard whether their applications are PC applications based on AMD K7 processor or high-end workstation and enterprise server applications based on Alpha 21264 processors. This platform is two years ahead of IA-64 and is a very cost-effective one from which the industry will benefit. This is the only true scalable and cost effective Implementation for Ultimate Visual and Enterprise Computing," said Atiq Raza, executive vice president and chief technical officer of Advanced Micro Devices. Whereas Intel is trying to cover both the x86 and Unix markets with one dual-mode chip (Merced), AMD will have the Alpha for Unix and the K7 for the x86 market. IMHO, the Intel one-chip tradeoff will fail as an x86 chip and as a Unix chip because of all the wasted silicon for the "other" mode. I'm hoping that AMD can learn from DEC, a.k.a. CPQ, how to make an FPU section that really smokes like the Alpha, which is 3x faster than Pentium II. Petz