Anyone heard anything about the EV7 or EV8?

[hobbes2112]

Were they scrapped? Someone told me that project was being canceled, truth?

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[mathius grey]

i think there still on, but they will be the end of the line for alpha

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[Moridin]

The EV7, which is basicailly an EV6 with large on die cache and an integrated memory controler is still on, but the EV8 is dead AFAIK.

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[Arcanum]

Eh? DEC are dead - Comaq basically sold the architecture to Intel and I believe a lot of the engineers went there as well.

We aren't going to see any more Alphas AFAIK - unless I've totally miss-read things.

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Ah, I see. I fell into a quasi parallel world where I was simultaneously right and wrong.

As Moridin said, they are going to produce the 7 and then it is dead.
http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20010625S0105

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[elimc]

Fome what I understand, The EV7 is still on and will be supported till the year 2004. Intel has had an almost 100% success rate in grabbing the Alpha engineers.

Edit=Another thing that I heard about the EV7 is that is will use quad RDRAM for a bus speed of 12.8GBs.
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[Arcadian]

Originally posted by Moridin:
The EV7, which is basicailly an EV6 with large on die cache and an integrated memory controler is still on, but the EV8 is dead AFAIK.

Don't forget the Integrated Network Interface. These four 6.4GB/s per link lines will allow 21364 chips to easily scale to multiple way SMP. It's the biggest feature of the new micro-architecture.

Arcadian

[Arcadian]

Originally posted by elimc:
Edit=Another thing that I heard about the EV7 is that is will use quad RDRAM for a bus speed of 12.8GBs.

Actually, the EV7 has FIVE RDRAM channels. The fifth one is for added parity.

Arcadian