DIGITAL'S ALPHA 21164 MICROPROCESSOR DELIVERS TOP PERFORMANCE AS OTHERS
DELIVER ONLY PROMISES

the highest performance RISC chip shipping in systems now...

MAYNARD, Mass. -- October 10, 1995 -- A full year after major RISC vendors
announced new generations of their microprocessors at the industry's 1994
Microprocessor Forum, only the Alpha 21164-300MHz processor from Digital
Equipment Corporation is available in systems today. Known as "the BIPS
chip" because it is the industry's first chip to exceed one billion
instructions per second, the Alpha 21164-300MHz microprocessor zooms by at
341 SPECint92, exceeding initial performance estimates.*

Not Vaporware

"Digital Semiconductor announcements are not vaporware," said William N.
Johnson, vice president of marketing and sales, Digital Semiconductor, a
Digital Equipment Corporation business. "Unlike our competitors, we
consistently deliver silicon with the promised performance soon after
initial announcement."

"Part of Digital's success in maintaining performance leadership for three
years running has been its ability to consistently meet or exceed
performance targets," said Linley Gwennap, editor-in-chief of the
Microprocessor Report. "By avoiding unnecessary complexity, Digital has
not fallen prey to the major schedule problems encountered by other
next-generation processors."

RISC CHIPS PRESENTED AT 1994 MICROPROCESSOR FORUM

     Product                  SPECint92       Shipping in Systems

     Alpha 21164-300          341 (actual)    Since May 1995
     Alpha 21164-333**        400 (est)       No
     Hewlett-Packard PA-8000  360 (est)       No
     MIPS R10000              300 (est)       No
     PowerPC 620              225 (est)       No
     Sun UltraSPARC           240 (est)       No

     ** The 333 MHz version of the Alpha 21164 chip was
     announced by Digital on Oct.2; samples are available
     now, with volume shipments expected in December.

Alpha Continues to Raise the Bar

At this year's Microprocessor Forum, Digital Semiconductor again raised the
bar by revealing technical details of the Alpha 21164A microprocessor. A
higher performance version of the 21164 processor, produced in .35 micron
process technology, the 21164A chip is projected to break the 500
SPECint92 barrier in 1996.

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 graphics/multimedia, as well
as low-power StrongARM microprocessors under license from Advanced RISC
Machines Ltd. Digital Semiconductor operates design centers in Hudson;
Palo Alto, California; Austin, Texas; and Jerusalem, Israel. A new,
$450-million fabrication facility in Hudson will begin revenue production
in 1996. Mitsubishi Electric Company is a second source for Alpha
microprocessors.

Digital Equipment Corporation is the world's leader in open client/server
solutions from personal computing to integrated worldwide information
systems. Digital's scalable Alpha platforms, storage, networking, software
and services, together with industry- focused solutions from business
partners, help organizations compete and win in today's global
marketplace.

* SPECint92 is a set of industry benchmarks generally used to indicate
relative performance in typical PC applications.
 
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