Brief Introduction to Alpha Systems and Processors

• Index
• What is Alpha
• What is Digital Semiconductor
• Alpha CPUs
• 21064 performance vs 21066 performance
• A Few Notes On Clocking
• The chip-sets
• The Systems
• Bytes and all that stuff
• PALcode and all that stuff
• Porting
• More Information
• References

2. What is Digital Semiconductor

Digital Semiconductor (DS) is the business unit within Digital Equipment Corporation (Digital - we don't like the name DEC) that sells semiconductors on the merchant market. Digital's products include CPUs, support chipsets, PCI-PCI bridges and PCI peripheral chips for comms and multimedia.