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[William H. Magill]

On Aug 25, 2010, at 3:32 PM, Will L Givens wrote:

> 
> Q) Whatever happened to Alliance Semiconductor's license to manufacture the
> Alpha? Did they ever go anywhere with that?  I've never had a chance to fool
> with military hardware. 
> 
> A) I don't know what ever happened to Alliance Semiconductor but PA Semi
> ended up releasing a processor. You may have heard of them, they were hired
> a lot of Alpha engineers and designers. You can find PA Semi cpus in the new
> Amiga's! 
> 
> http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=880

PA Semi was bought by Apple in April of 2008.

Rumor has it that the custom chips in ti iPod, iPhone, iPad and etc were designed by Alpha Engineers....

.... So not only is Intel "Alpha Inside" but so is Apple!!! ...

And, for what it's worth, OSX is so much like OSF/1 that aside from my C2 activities on the Alpha, "it's all quite familiar."



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