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Received: March 31, 1997 10:01am EST From: PR Newswire
New Motherboard Enables High-End Desktop Designs
MAYNARD, Mass., March 31, /PRNewswire/ -- Digital Equipment Corporation
(NYSE: DEC) today increased the performance advantage of its Alpha micro-
processor family by announcing a faster, 600MHz version of its Alpha 21164
microprocessor for workstations and servers.
The new Alpha 21164-600MHz chip, with a peak execution rate of 2.4 billion
instructions per second (BIPS), delivers an estimated 18.0 SPECint95 and
27.0 SPECfp95, the industry's top figures for both RISC and CISC processors.
Samples are available now from Digital Semiconductor, a Digital Equipment
Corporation business.
A new, ATX-form-factor motherboard, the AlphaPC 164LX, to support the
latest Alpha processors, was also announced. The AlphaPC 164LX motherboard
enables OEMs to create Alpha workstations and servers, using standard
components for high-performance Windows NT applications such as visual
computing, computer-aided design, financial analysis, and Internet servers.
The AlphaPC 164LX board will be available in the summer of 1997.
Best Performance for Servers, Desktops
"Reaching 600MHz demonstrates the performance leadership that was built
into the Alpha architecture," said Tim Miller, Digital Semiconductor's
strategic marketing manager for Alpha products. "With this month's
announcements, Digital offers the industry's top-performing microprocessor --
the Alpha 21164-600MHz -- for servers and workstations, and best price and
performance in the Windows NT desktop market with the Alpha 21164PC chip."
The Alpha 21164 product family's superior floating point performance enables
it to handle the algorithms required for graphics and motion video. These
top-performing chips push the performance envelope for visual computing
applications such as video conferencing, modeling, video editing, multimedia
authoring, image rendering, and animation.
New Motherboard for Rapid System Design
The AlphaPC 164LX motherboard enables rapid design of systems using
standard components such as synchronous DRAM memory modules, PCI option cards,
power supplies and enclosures, and the Windows NT operating system. The new
board accommodates Alpha 21164 microprocessors operating at speeds from 400MHz
to 600MHz and supports 2MB of synchronous SRAM level 3 cache memory over a
128-bit data path. Four PCI slots (two 32-bit, two 64-bit) and two ISA
expansion slots are included along with normal system support functions.
Windows NT ARC firmware supports installation of Windows NT 4.0 software.
Digital expects to announce personal workstations based on the Alpha
21164-600MHz microprocessor in the near future.
Digital Semiconductor, a Digital Equipment Corporation business
headquartered in Hudson, Massachusetts, designs, manufactures and markets
industry-leading semiconductor products including Alpha microprocessors and
PCI chips for networking, bridging, and multimedia, plus low-power StrongARM
microprocessors under license from Advanced RISC Machines Ltd. Mitsubishi
Electric Corporation and Samsung Electronics Company Ltd. are alternate
sources for Alpha microprocessors.
Web site:
http://www.digital.com/semiconductor or 800-332-2717 for more information.
Digital Equipment Corporation is a world leader in open client/server
solutions from personal computing to integrated worldwide information systems.
Digital's scalable Alpha and Intel platforms, storage, networking, software
and services, together with industry-focused solutions from business partners,
help organizations compete and win in today's global marketplace.