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

To: Rob Young who wrote (56688)	4/28/1999 2:19:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575538

<Point is from a processor prospective, the cost of EV68 (not 21364, your entire post goes back to 21364.. yes that is a more expensive part) is on par with EV56 (21164 533 MHz).> Rob, maybe we're talking about two totally different things. You're arguing about the cost of a processor; I'm arguing about the cost of an entire server. When I said that "21364 isn't going to be cheap," I mean that Compaq isn't going to be selling that thing for real cheap. The cost to actually make an Alpha is irrelevant; for an analogy, take a look at the huge discrepancy between the cost to make a Xeon and the prices they actually go for. And the rest of your post is confusing. The Compaq/Digital slide that you told me to click on really doesn't tell me much, since the slide is rather vague and not meant to show exact release dates. <At that, we do know more about 21364 than we do Merced.> Speak for yourself. ;-) So let's compare apples-to-apples here. How much do you think the top-of-the-line dual-21264 workstation will sell for by mid-2000, the timeframe of Merced's release? How fast will that 21264 run? And when is 21364 going to be released? Tenchusatsu