[Info-vax] Chinese Alpha?

[Michael Kraemer]

JF Mezei schrieb:

> Had EV7 work not be stretched and delayed over many years, it would have
> come out before power consumtion was a big issue, and my guess is that
> any shrinks and EV8 would have then dealt with it.

I don't get it what magical design features the Alpha has, which
would make it still attractive, even if it had been developed further.
It's a design more than twenty years old, patents would have expired,
and even by DEC's exaggerated claims it would reach its predicted
lifetime in five years from now.

> Had Digital and Alpha survived, I am pretty sure that they would have
> lead the market with power efficient Alpha, especially once they would
> have gone multi core.

I don't know what feeds your pipe dreams,
but the Alpha never had a good track record in power efficiency.
In fact, its inability to adapt to the needs of embedded devices
(with the exception of AXPvme, which failed miserably)
was one reason for its demise.