Comments on: End of the line for HP's Alpha
The last processor of the chip family is due Monday, signaling the end of a dynasty that never was.
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- This is sad news.
- by Dachi August 18, 2004 6:45 PM PDT
- I hate to see the Alpha go :(
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- More competition than you think
- by Tex Murphy PI August 19, 2004 9:36 AM PDT
- You make it sound as if Intel has the lock on the market. In reality, it is the ARCHITECTURE that has the lock - the x86 architecture.
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- Alpha the lord of the chips...
- by August 22, 2004 10:57 AM PDT
- Without a doubt some sad news...but nothing that was expected since the HP Compaq merger!
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(3 Comments)I guess unless the PowerPC takes up more we are going to see Intel become even more dominant.
Intel being the driving force of the industry is on a serious decline since AMD beat them to the 64bit-x86 market.
Still, Alpha can be called the Betamax of CPUs, advanced architecture that many emulated (even on hte x86 level) - but it just lost out due to a myriad of reasons.
HP interess in Itanium doomed the future of the Alpha chip....Time as proven that the itanium was/is simply a bad choise!
Today I still prefer my Alpha chip running at 600Mhz than Pentium or K7 chips running at similar speeds! I hat hopes that IBM would aquire the Alpha chip and integrate it with the Power PC. With this event now we are left with Power PC, Itanium and x86 a poor choise indeed....