DIGITAL EXTENDS ALPHA PERFORMANCE LEAD WITH SPEED UPGRADES TO ALPHA
MICROPROCESSORS

Alpha 21164 Up to 333MHz...

MAYNARD, Mass., October 2, 1995 -- The world's fastest micro- processors
just got faster with the announcement today of speed upgrades to the Alpha
21164 (the BIPS chip) and Alpha 21064A microprocessors. Digital Equipment
Corporation will now offer the Alpha 21164-333MHz chip, with estimated
SPECint92 performance of 400 and SPECfp92 of 570, and the Alpha
21064A-300MHz chip, with estimated SPECint92 of 220 and SPECfp92 of 300.
These high- performance chips, targeted initially at the high performance
workstation and server markets, significantly outpace the competition.

"Alpha microprocessors have consistently hit and often exceeded performance
targets and delivery times since their introduction more than three years
ago," stated Ed Caldwell, vice president, Digital Semiconductor, a Digital
Equipment Corporation business. "The Alpha architecture is designed to
deliver high performance in every generation and design upgrade. Today's
announcement by Digital is an example of how we are able to push each
successive Alpha generation to ever greater performance levels."

Setting Industry Records

Today's announcement shows the significant performance advantage of Alpha
microprocessors. The Alpha 21164-333MHz processor significantly
outperforms all other currently shipping or sampling chips. It performs
integer intensive applications 1.7 to 2.9 times faster and floating point
intensive applications 1.6 to 3.2 times faster than any available
competitive processors. This difference is due in part to Digital
Semiconductor's advanced, world-class manufacturing process and
semiconductor design capabilities, which allow Digital to deliver a
processor at a record-setting 333 MHz. Both the Alpha 21164-333MHz and the
Alpha 21064A-300MHz microprocessors are sampling now and are
pin-compatible with previously announced versions. They enable easy
enhancement to existing systems.

                  Chips Shipping/Sampling Today

           Digital   Intel      SGI       HP       Motorola  Sun
           Alpha     X86        MIPS      PA-RISC  PowerPC   SPARC
           21164     P6         VR4400    7200     604       UltraSPARC
           333MHz    133MHz     250MHz    120MHz   133MHz    167MHz

SPECint92  400 est.  200 est.   175       168.7    176       240 est.
SPECfp92   570 est.  200 est.   178       269.2    157       350 est.

Digital Semiconductor, a Digital Equipment Corporation business,
headquartered in Hudson, Massachusetts, designs, manufactures and markets
industry-leading semiconductor products including Alpha microprocessors
and PCI peripheral 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.
 
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