Years ago, I was told by a drunk* ex-Digital engineer at a lisp meetup that one of the big reasons that Alpha died was that y'all were getting yields of somethi

Years ago, I was told by a drunk* ex-Digital engineer at a lisp meetup that one of the big reasons that Alpha died was that y'all were getting yields of something like 6 wafers/chip, vs. Intel's 97% for the Pentium. Given that, those 500 alphas still must have cost a pretty penny to produce. * I was also not exactly sober at the time, so these numbers may be a bit off. The number of wafers per chip being greater than 1, though, I am absolutely certain about.