Straight from the horse's mouth, if you will...
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Intel's Barrett Outlines Company's Architectures for the Internet
Calls on Developers to Join Intel in Investing for the Future
SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb 27, 2001 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Intel Corporation Chief Executive Officer Craig Barrett today outlined the four platform and silicon architectures that define Intel's role in the Internet economy. Barrett, before a crowd of 5,000 developers, engineers and other technical experts at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF), strongly urged the audience to join Intel in investing for future long-term growth despite near-term economic uncertainty.
"The Internet is the growth engine of the future," said Barrett. "While technology companies may be facing slower demand for certain products today, the worldwide build out of the Internet will continue to drive increased productivity, new forms of communication and entirely new product categories well into the future. Now is the time to invest for that future.
"Intel's four architectures are designed to provide the technology foundation upon which the industry can capture growth opportunities created by the Internet. Intel is focused on providing customers with the basic architectural building blocks for client devices, networking equipment and servers that will allow greater innovation, faster time to market and lower costs," said Barrett.
Each of Intel's architectures for the Internet provides the industry with the key ingredients necessary to develop innovative new technologies and applications. Intel's CEO described the IA-32 chip architecture and the Intel(R) Personal Internet Client Architecture (Intel PCA) as the company's primary solutions for client-based wired and wireless computing. Intel's Internet Exchange Architecture (Intel IXA) is designed to provide a ready-made blueprint for building next-generation networking equipment that can quickly be brought to market. The company's Itanium(TM) processor architecture and Xeon(TM) processor family are designed to meet the price and performance requirements of the Internet server infrastructure.
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Intel's Itanium processor is also gaining momentum with more than 300 software applications built to run on the new processor and hundreds of others in development. Intel's Itanium processor will be important in future enterprise applications because of Internet-driven demands for data, the increase in the amount of data that needs to be processed, the requirement for fast response rates and the overriding concern for more secure transactions.
Otellini then demonstrated for the first time in a public forum, the next-generation Itanium processor code-named McKinley. The processor was co-developed with Hewlett-Packard Company. Duane E. Zitzner, president of Hewlett-Packard's Computing Systems organization, joined Otellini on stage demonstrating McKinley-based servers running three operating systems. Otellini noted that Intel is now shipping initial McKinley engineering samples to OEM customers. McKinley-based systems are expected to reach the marketplace next year.
"We're very pleased with the progress we've made on both the initial version of the Itanium processor and McKinley," said Otellini. "These products will be central to Intel's success for many years to come."
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