Are the Alpha processers still being developed

[MustPost]

I was reading an old article at ACEs hardware. It said tis

Year Process Die size Max. freq. Spec Spec
Shipped µm mm² MHz Int 95 Fp 95

DEC Alpha 21164a 97 0,35 209 600 18,4 21,4
DEC Alpha 21264 98 0,25 302 667 40 60

i know it doesn't line up right, but what it says is the Alpha 21264 shipped in 98 and was clocked at 667 MHz.

Then I went tho the Compaq site, and on their high end Alphas the proccesers were 21264A's clocked at 1001 MHz.
Thats only like a 50 percent increase in 3 years.
I know there using like 16 proccessers but should new chips/clockspeeds be ramped up a little faster than that.

So I was wondering, is Compaq still really working on Alpha chips or are they just keeping the same old designs, or do they have a brand new procceser coming out soon

 

[Sohcan]

<< So I was wondering, is Compaq still really working on Alpha chips or are they just keeping the same old designs, or do they have a brand new procceser coming out soon >>

Umm, no, Compaq sold Alpha to Intel about a month ago.



<< Thats only like a 50 percent increase in 3 years. I know there using like 16 proccessers but should new chips/clockspeeds be ramped up a little faster than that. >>

Hehe, that's not a wild observation. The .25um Alpha EV68, which was to be released at around 1GHz, suffered long delays...I think it was originally supposed to have been released in '99.

 

[MustPost]

Ahh ok.
But Compaq still makes Servers using those chips right. Or are the chips gone for good

 

[gopunk]

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=27&amp;threadid=509711&amp;highlight_key=y&amp;keyword1=alpha

 

[Sohcan]

The Alpha platform still has a lot of demand, so it won't disappear just yet. I think under the purchase agreement Intel will be producing Alphas for the near future. The EV68 and possibly the EV7 will see the light of day, but the EV8 will be scrapped. Eventually Compaq will switch to Itanium for their servers.

 

[rudder]

I may be wrong but I thought the engineers that used to work on the alpha risc processors went over to AMD to work develop the athlon.

 

[BigNeko]

http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5093197,00.html