On Sun, Nov 4, 2001 7:59 AM, Dieter Schmitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Gareth Randell wrote: > >> Some SMT news that I know of: >> Alpha EV8 will have SMT with 4 simultaneous execution paths. >> Alpha recently got canned by compaq, so the above may never happen. > >..... and Intel bought Alpha from Compaq recently.
More precisely, Intel bought non-exclusive rights to all the alpha technology, as well as the right to hire a lot of the Compaq Alpha people. The EV8 designers are going/have gone to Intel. Compaq is still developing the Alpha EV7 family. In a few years, the EV7 people may migrate to Intel also. At this point, Compaq still owns all the Alpha intellectual property, and could continue EV8 development if they wanted to (though they would have to start over with new people). Intel could complete the Alpha EV8 and ship it as an Intel-branded chip if they wanted to. Or (far more likely) they will incorporate what features they can in their current CPU families, mainly Itanium. Many of Compaq's compiler people will be migrating to Intel also. --------------------------- Robert Deininger [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
