[Info-vax] Did Ken Olsen kill Alpha?

[Michael S]

On Oct 18, 2:45 am, Michael Kraemer <M.Krae... at gsi.de> wrote:
> Kenneth Fairfield schrieb:
>
>
> > Unfortunately, while Intel and IBM do support fabbing
> > other companies' products, they rarely do so on their
> > latest technology.  That put Alpha at a permanent
> > technology disadvantage.
>
> When the last bunch of Alpha's were produced in IBM's fab
> I think they used the latest technology (SOI,Copper),
> the same as for POWER.
>

"Last  bunch of Alphas"=EV7z. 180nm SOI. Copper interconnects, of
course.
According to Wikipeadia "The EV7z was introduced on 16 August 2004".
IBM Power4+ (130 nm) was shipping since May 2003.
So, despite being SOI and Copper,  last bunch of Alphas was not
produced on the latest IBM silicon technology.

But what you said is true for "before last bunch of Alphas" i.e.
original EV7, which was introduced in Jan 2002, i.e. just 3 months
after IBM's own 180nm Power4.