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Old 06-25-2001, 10:42 AM   #1
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Compaq Transfers Alpha to Intel


Intel has aquired the rights to the Alpha processor. This is kinda sad - I liked the Alpha. It will probably be absorbed into the Itanium processor family now. The deal also includes porting Tru64 UNIX to the Itanium.

http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archi...010625corp.htm
 
Old 06-30-2001, 11:59 AM   #2
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there goes the best power desktop line of chips ever built.Now Intel will use the technology in I64 and then say what a great cpu it is.Oh well that still leaves Power PC and Sparc if you need a high end box.
 
Old 07-16-2001, 08:29 AM   #3
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As a Compaq employee, I will try to give you some insight on this action. Here is an excerpt from some inside company info:

"What we have done

· Alpha license rights have been sold to Intel [You’ll remember that several years ago, Digital sold Alpha fabrication facilities to Intel and cross-licensed several patents with them. The license rights were not sold at that time.]
· Post-EV7 Alpha development work has been discontinued
· Several hundred engineers will transfer to Intel over the next few years -- including compiler experts (one of the most beneficial aspects of the deal for Intel) and the EV8 development team

Why we did it

· Margins on hardware sales continue to head toward zero; the days of giving away service and software to leverage hardware sales are gone - in fact the situation has reversed. Alpha development continued to be very costly.
· Alpha no longer enjoys the two-fold performance advantage it once held. In fact, the performance of the Intel Itanium family is projected to equal Alpha within 4 years. Even with a huge performance advantage, Alpha did not monopolize the processor market and Alpha market share would have plummeted as the performance advantage dropped.
· The Itanium processor was poised to dominate the enterprise server market - with or without the Alpha sale.
"



Also, as of right now.. the only OS that boots and runs stable on the I-64 processor is Linux. Heh heh.
 
  


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