| >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
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+ 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.
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