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To: Paul Engel who wrote (65838)	10/5/1998 11:33:00 PM
From: rbarsom	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

the next big thing, i think that was radio in 1929

To: Paul Engel who wrote (65838)	10/6/1998 12:04:00 AM
From: gnuman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Elmer/Paul, re: <Alpha> Just posting information, have no idea of what the pricing or original schedule should be. On the other hand, what was the original schedule for Merced? According to Barrett, it won't be out till mid 2000. That's almost two years away! From C/Net: <"The computer industry as a whole is increasingly segmented into different classes of computers," Barrett said. "It just multiplies the complexity for all of us." With its commitment to StrongARM, Intel will be coming to market with five families of microprocessors: a Xeon line for servers; the Pentium II line for performance PCs; the Celeron line for basic PCs; a mobile Pentium II line; and StrongARM. By mid-2000, the picture expands again with the release of Merced, the 64-bit processor for high-end computing systems.>

To: Paul Engel who wrote (65838)	10/6/1998 7:44:00 AM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul - RE: does that mean the 21264 EV6 Alpha has now slipped ANOTHER YEAR ? I don't think there has been any slip in the 21264 chip. This announcement is referring to the crossbar technology known internally as 'wildfire' which was targeted at the 'big machine' category. CPQ is getting such good performance internally on 4-way clusters of 4P Xeon machines that the 'wildfire' machine is looking like an expensive solution to the same problem. Tandem has run a 16-way Xeon cluster (64P) using VI technology and fibre storage that shows better than 90% scaling. That would give virtually the same performance as the biggest 'wildfire' machine at a small fraction of the cost. My suspicion is that this announcement is a prelude to the 'wildfire' machines just disappearing. Remember that the DECUS meeting is this week, CPQ needs to reassure the DEC base that all is well. But why bring a big, expensive, low volume product to market if they have a better, cheaper solution already on the launch pad using high volume components?