Yield problems on the PA-8200 ?

[Joseph Sirosh]

HP's PA-8200 workstations, long promised, seem to be well-behind schedule.
It was supposed to be the fastest processor, beating alpha, and delivering
a SPEC-FP95 of 25.0. But DEC announced their 600 MHz alpha one month ago, and
it does a cool 27.0 on the SPEC FP benchmarks. And HP is still silent.
The PA-8200 was supposed to be a 220 MHz processor, but all I have seen
so far is an announcement of the V-class server that uses a 200MHz PA-8200.
Are they having yield problems on their fab or what? Does anybody know when
the PA-8200 workstations might actually ship? Any guesses on the price?

Joseph

[Doug Siebert]

sir...@cs.utexas.edu (Joseph Sirosh) writes:

They are shipping the C200 in September, your local rep should be able to
take an order now. Dunno the exact price, probably 50% higher than the C180
if I had to guess. There's also a K480 or somesuch that uses these things.

Yield problems wouldn't be unreasonable considering they are doing this on a
.5 micron process and everyone else is well entrenched in .35 micron.

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