Compaq & Samsung to invest $500 million in Alpha

copal7 wrote to us with the word from Infoworld that Compaq & Samsung are going to combine together to pump $500 million into the Alpha chipset. In addition to that investment, 1.5 billion dollars will be put into the chipset over the next decade. The companies are going to be targeting (Wait for it...) Linux, as one would have guessed.