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Title:	Hudson VLSI
Notice:	For Digital Chip Data - CHIPBZ::PRODUCTION$:[DS_INFO...]
Moderator:	RICKS::PHIPPS

Created:	Wed Feb 12 1986
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	701
Total number of notes:	4658

660.0. "21164PC: who manufactures today?" by RTOMS::dhcp-203-80-56.suo.dec.com::Wagenblast (This brain intentionally left blank) Thu Mar 20 1997 09:49

>> The Alpha 21164PC, co-designed with Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, 
>> will be marketed and sold by Digital
>> Semiconductor, Mitsubishi and Samsung Electronics.

Customer questions: 
- who MANUFACTURES this chip TODAY?
	() Digital
	() Samsung
	() Mitsubishi
- of the ones who don't today, who PLANS to manufacture this chip in the   
  future, and WHEN?
	() Digital
	() Samsung
	() Mitsubishi

Thank you,
Thomas Wagenblast

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
660.1		YIELD::HARRIS		`Thu Mar 20 1997 10:52`	23
	>Customer questions: >- who MANUFACTURES this chip TODAY? > () Digital > () Samsung > () Mitsubishi Digital and Mitsubishi are manufacturing 21164PC aka PCA56. For now Samsung will market the 21164PC, sourcing it from Digital or Mitsubishi. >- of the ones who don't today, who PLANS to manufacture this chip in the > future, and WHEN? > () Digital > () Samsung > () Mitsubishi We are working with Samsung on a next generation 21164PC that will be available in the first half 1998. At that time Samsung, Digital and Mitsubishi will all be manufacturing PCA parts. Samsung will also be manufacturing EV6. -Bruce
660.2	exi	ROM01::OLD_CIPOLLA	Bruno Cipolla	`Fri Mar 21 1997 06:43`	30
	+ DEC CHALLENGES THE INTEL P6 KLAMATH WITH NEW 21164PC CHIP Fleshing out the details of its St Patrick's Day announcement (CI No 3,122) concerning the cheap 21164PC processor, Digital Equipment Corp said that it had the part running at up to at least 625MHz in the lab, but it will come in 400MHz, 466MHz and 533MHz versions. Mother-boards with chip and memory will be a $1,000 and DEC is also talking about producing boxes with a 466MHz 21164PC that go for $2,600, hoping to make Intel Corp's forthcoming 233MHz Klamath P6 eat its dust. Such a configuration would include 32Mb of memory, a 2.4Gb drive, a 15-inch screen, eight speed CD drives, 2Mb of graphics memory, along with NT and Office software. The 21164PC is the first Alpha to incorporate DEC's MMX-matching Motion Video Instructions. Unfortunately volumes of the new chip are not supposed to be available until the third quarter, when 21164PC-based boxes, should start appearing. By then, DEC should have the second of the part's two chipsets, Koala, ready. The other one is Pyxis. Our sister publication, ClieNT Server News understands that there are two stripped down boards: the PC164sx for around $500 with cache but no CPU and the PC164zx for around $350. The full motherboard should probably cost around $850 from alternate sources. Against Klamath, DEC will claim a 1.5 times improvement in SPECint, two times SPECfp, two times Softimage and 1.8 times AutoCAD. Meanwhile, ClieNT Server News, has heard of an Alpha chip running in the Maynard labs at 900MHz but is not sure which part it is.