EETimes schrijft dat Samsung een 1,6GHz Alpha processor in ontwikkeling heeft. De eerste 1,4 en 1,6GHz samples moeten dit jaar geleverd worden. Verder denkt Samsung in het tweede kwartaal van dit jaar met een 1GHz 21264 op de markt te komen:
Samsung will launch samples of a 1.4-to-1.6-GHz processor this year, Changkyu Hwang, vice president of Samsung Electronics, revealed during a Korean semiconductor industry strategy symposium. The announcement quells rumors that Samsung was withdrawing from the 64-bit CPU business because its efforts with the Alpha processor were trailing the respective efforts of Intel and AMD to commercialize 1-GHz processors."We are planning to launch chips with 0.13-micron process technology in the same period as the other competitors," said Hwang.