Volgens speurwerk van The Register heeft Compaq al werkende samples van koper-interconnect Alpha's:
Conversations in newsgroup COMP.ARCH have revealed that samples of Alphas using copper and SOI technology are already up and running.The reports come after yesterday's claim by Intel's John Miner that its IA-64 processors will outperform any Risc platform.
According to a user on the thread, he is already achieving clock speeds of 833MHz using Tru64 Unix on a UP2000 motherboard.
He said: "So what would you expect from a sped-up 0.18 um copper SOI part with much faster cache bandwidth than today (a 667 MHz EV-67 used in recent XP1000 SPEC results runs a 1/3 speed 222 MHz cache; what do you get when you increase the clock rat 2.2 times, and cache throughput 4.5 times - and double the cache size (and improve main mem bus speed?"
API demoed a 1GHz Alpha at PC Expo in summer running at 1GHz at room temperature. Compaq has also recently received SOI .18 micron parts from IBM.
