RELIABLE SOURCES tell me that EV7, the Alpha CPU that uses the Marvel platform is expected to debut within a week or so.
It will use the GS 1280 cognomen and its benchmarks, as expected, are very good. Very good indeed.
So good, in fact, that our friend Jenny tells us the following: "If HP still believed the Alpha chip was worth the candle, rather than being cosy with its friends at the Intel Corporation, and marketed it properly, it might render all other server platforms into carbonised bread, otherwise known as toast".
But that will never happen. My sources claim that HP realises the EV7 is a fantastic chip and wants to stop potential buyers of the HP Itanium servers from buying EV7 instead.
And, we understand, the HP suits have now laid down a diktat saying that not one Alpha benchmark will be released until the Itanium platform(s) is/are faster.
Jenny told us that her friends at HP who understand such things, think this could be a very long time coming.
And she also said that quite a lot of people inside the corporation wondered why the senior execs wanted to "shoot itself in the foot" by driving potential Alpha customers to the competition.
Mind you, there's many a slip betwixt cup and lip, and here's a presentation that HP made at an Open VMS, Alpha presentation late last year. If you turn to slides starting after page 24 of the PDF, you will find some EV7 performance graphs which, Jenny understands, might be real benchmarks rather than just projections...
Source: The Inquirer
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