[Info-vax] HP Securities Analyst Meeting 2012

[Michael Kraemer]

David Froble schrieb:

> I seem to recall from discussions about Alpha that there were claims 
> that chip development, maybe testing, was rather labor intensive. 

Compaq claimed annual costs of $300M,
even in fabless mode:

http://web.archive.org/web/20010701002951/http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/zd/20010627/tc/alpha_proved_costly_for_compaq_1.html

this would be about half the cost DEC had.