Digital Equipment Corp’s 15m-transistor 21264 Alpha RISC, also known as the EV6, will be described at next month’s 1996 Microprocessor Forum and is expected to deliver 30 SPECint, twice the performance of the current high-end, its 500MHz 21164 (CI No 2,949). The EV67 shrink is expected to reach 50 SPECint and the EV7 for 100 SPECint. The $400 part dubbed 21164PC that DEC is working on with engineers from Mitsubishi Electric Corp will also be announced at the Forum and could turn up in personal computers costing as little as $2,500. It is also expected to include multimedia extensions to compete with Intel Corp’s Klamath MMX remake of Pentium Pro. The cheapest Alpha is now $700. DEC is also said to be working with LSI Logic Corp on a chip set called Koala.
