End of the line for HP's Alpha: "Despite lackluster sales, the chip--and the engineers who worked on it--directly and indirectly influenced the industry. The original Athlon chip from Advanced Micro Devices used a bus initially created for the Alpha. The subsequent Opteron chip features a high-speed chip-to-chip interconnect called HyperTransport and an integrated memory controller--technologies similar to those touted earlier by Alpha development teams. Dirk Meyer, AMD's top processor executive, worked on the chip as well.

Last year, many of the Alpha architects left HP to join Intel. Research performed by Digital's Alpha team in the '90s on multithreading also strongly influenced HyperThreading, a technology incorporated into current Intel server and desktop chips. "


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