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

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (42685)	12/3/1998 12:52:00 PM
From: Ed Sammons	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578652

First of all, it's not clear whether the Alpha 21264 can be built in a Slot A form factor. It probably could, but there may be problems that none of us would know about. Physically and electrically, there is no problem. The biggest challenge (IMHO) is heat dissipation. When the Alpha migrates to .25um, heat dissipation will also decrease. Second, if the K7 is interchangeable with the Alpha, this is a very dumb business move in my opinion. Unless AMD has some sort of deal with Compaq, or AMD wants to move away from the x86 architecture in the far future, I can't see how the option to change from K7 to Alpha would benefit AMD. Lower costs for both Compaq and AMD. K7 will have higher volume than Alpha in 2000. Compaq wants to use Alpha in all segments of their product line, from workstations, low end servers, and highend servers. Take a few K7 systems / Alpha chips, interconnect them w/ their System Area Network, and you a highly reliable screaming machine ideal for mid to high range server applications.