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Subject: Re: 700 MHZ Alpha chip; superfast Alphas

Author: Chris Carson

Date: 06:48:05 10/31/97

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On October 31, 1997 at 03:53:30, Ingo Althofer wrote:

>On October 30, 1997 at 16:06:35, Chris Carson wrote:
>>It might be interesting to see how Crafty performs on
>>this new chip.
>>
>>See: http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,15842,00.html
>>
>>Might be worth exploring for next years WMCCC.
>>
>>Best Regards,
>>Chris Carson
>
>In June 97 in a DEC laboratory super-cooled Alpha chips had been tested
>with 2 GHz ( = 2,000 MHz ! ) frequenz.
>
>Ingo Althoefer.

  I'm impressed!  Wonder why Dec did not supply any any
of these?  Not commercial perhaps?  Will be interesting
to see how fast Merceed is (now with the Intel/Alpha
settlement).  Last reports say 1GHz, but not until 1999.
Seems like a long time to wait and low horsepower?  :)

Best Regards,
Chris Carson



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