[H-GEN] News Item on Alpha chips

[Frank Brand]

Thought this snip from Yahoo Business News might interest you guys.



Samsung Starts Alpha Chip Production

SEOUL - South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co said today it has begun
producing Alpha microprocessors developed in an alliance with Digital
Equipment. 

The 533-megahertz central processing unit will operate on workstations
and servers with Microsoft Windows NT and Unix systems, a Samsung
statement said. 

It also said the chip would embody functions such as 3D graphics,
computer-aided design, moving pictures and virtual reality to capture
the visual computing market. 

The company plans to begin mass-producing the 600-megahertz chips by the
end of this year and chips for personal computers by the first quarter
of next year, the statement said. 

Samsung plans to expand production to one million units in 1999 from
4,000 this year and 110,000 next year, it said. 
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Frank Brand
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