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To: Scumbria who wrote (47829)	1/29/1999 3:24:00 PM
From: Gary Ng	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1583389

Scumbria, Re: I understand that Xeon makes a lot of money for Intel. However, if Compaq can get a low cost, high volume supply of Alphas, they will do the smart thing with them. That is in fact true. The same can be said for K6, K7 or whatever. This is a very competitive business(MP) and only the vendor that can delivery the product in volume, on time , with the right price and competitive in performance can win. So far, the only company that can do this seems to be Intel. Gary

To: Scumbria who wrote (47829)	1/29/1999 3:26:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1583389

Re: "Compaq has to buy Xeons from Intel. If they can buy higher performance Alpha microprocessors from Samsung at a lower cost than they pay for Xeon, and then sell the systems at a higher price than they they sell their Xeon systems, isn't that a better value proposition for Compaq? Isn't that one of the main reasons they bought DEC? I understand that Xeon makes a lot of money for Intel. However, if Compaq can get a low cost, high volume supply of Alphas, they will do the smart thing with them." The point is that the Alphas aren't significantly higher performance, if at all, when you put them in SMP systems and run SMP transaction based applications. Sure they scream at pure integer and FP applications but they are really feeling the pressure from the superior Intel based designs and bus architecture when it comes to transaction processing. When you add cost of the total system into the equation you can see why the Xeon is taking the world by storm. EP