Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 23rd Jan 2006 19:15 UTC
"To the outside observer, improvements in PC architecture are evolutionary but logical. Processors advance inevitably in speed and performance, in happy accordance with Moore's Law. For Nebojsa Novakovic, a consultant in high-end computing systems, that's hardly the case. The demise of the DEC Alpha processor is a case in point. A performance leader was killed off by corporate whim."
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2006-01-23
I was a contract employee for Intel and was there the night DEC Fab 5 became Intel Fab 17. As part of the FTC agreement, Alpha was to manufactured for seven years. The failure of Alpha was not in its technology; it was the ability of DEC to manufacture it in volume at a profit. You cannot look at the history of DEC without taking into account the history of the Alpha.
Its a shame really; for its time, indeed even today, the Alpha was/is an amazing product.