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To: Scumbria who wrote (48179)	2/2/1999 11:45:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1572157

Scumby - CHEAPM ALphas are on their way - IN VOLUME ! Check this out - a 500 MHz Alpha (Same as Pentium III !) plus a motherboard are going for the unbelievably cheap price of ONLY....$5,350 each .......If you order 1000 of them ! This really ought to knock Intel out of business ! Paul {=========================} semibiznews.com A service of Semiconductor Business News, CMP Media Inc. Story posted 11 a.m./8 a.m., PST, 2/2/99 Alpha Processor begins volume production of 64-bit MPU CONCORD, Mass. -- Alpha Processor Inc. here has begun full production of its third-generation Alpha 21264 microprocessor. Rated at speeds of 500 and 600 megahertz, the 64-bit 21264 is aimed at performance-driven applications such as digital media creation, transaction processing, computer-aided design (CAD), and enterprise servers running on the Microsoft Windows NT and Linux operating systems. "This introduction represents a significant milestone for Alpha Processor Inc. and our customers. The general availability of the Alpha 21264 sets a new standard for departmental server performance," said Gerry Talbot, chief technology officer of Alpha Processor, which was formed last year out of Compaq Computer Corp.'s acquisition of Digital Equipment Corp. and also counts Samsung Electronics as a backer. "Users of this technology will recognize a tremendous increase in speed, power and throughput." "Our company supplies products to the CAD market that rely heavily on a solution that combines leading-edge software with state-of-the art hardware," said Shawn Harty, president of New Technology Solutions Inc., a CAD system OEM in Tewksbury, Mass. "An organization like Alpha Processor, dedicated to providing fast, reliable microprocessors and platforms is essential to meeting the performance demands our customers require." Alpha Processor also announced its first AlphaPC 264DP dual-processor-capable motherboard, which can accept two Alpha 21264 microprocessor daughter cards, supports 4 gigabytes of main memory, and utilizes Compaq Computer Corp.'s 21272 high-performance chip set. According to SPECint95 and SPECfp95 benchmarks, the 500-MHz uniprocessor system doubles the performance of the previous generation Alpha 21164. In quantities of 1,000, Alpha Processor's motherboards, with 500-MHz 21264 chip, are priced at $5,350 and $5,757 for configurations with 2 or 4 Mbytes of L2 cache, respectively. CPU daughter cards with the same configuration are $2,643 and $3,050, respectively.