not sure if Alpha is dead or no .. still alot of cluster solutions using them .. I guess its application area is rather narrow but i would'nt read the Alpha its last rights yet Nige ----- Original Message ----- From: "Trent Shipley" To: Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 12:40 AM Subject: Re: flame-bait contra Re: anti dot-net spew > What does a bargain-basement fab that produces competitive 64-bit CPUs cost > anyway? > > On Tuesday 05 March 2002 00:04, you wrote: > > TI is going to be producing the Sparc Ultra III for Sun. Alpha is Dead or > > dying. AMD is about to (or has) release the Sledgehammer, their competitor > > for the 64-bit world. Wouldn't surprise me if Motorola got out of the > > Desktop world, but probably not while Apple is selling the systems. It's > > gonna be fun to watch AMD and Intel going head-to-head in the 64-bit world. > > As long as AMD stays in the market, Intel has nothing to fear from Big Bad > > Uncle Sam coming after it for being a Monopoly, but of course Intel hasn't > > done the things that Microsoft did to get their monopoly (or am I wrong?). > > > > > I'm not certain the "only runs on Intel" is much of a distinction. As > > > far as I know Itanium will be the only chip in its league. > > > > > > Cost of development and building a fab is getting just to high for there > > > to be more than one producer. IBM, HP, and Compaq are getting out of the > > > CPU biz. Motorolla probably will too. Don't know about SUN. > > > > > > As for having to upgrade every three years, aren't you the one who says > > > the cost of hardware and the OS is "irrelevant"? > > > > > > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >