whoops, spoke too soon, more FUD fuel.....
To: +Richard Habib (80717 )
From: +Tenchusatsu
Tuesday, May 11 1999 6:05PM
ET
Reply # of 80721
From Sharky Extreme:
sharkyextreme.com
Intel Announces Fund For Merced Processor Development
Posted by Craig "Mako" Campanaro : May 10th
Intel announced today the existence of an investment fund specifically
dedicated towards the rapid development and release of their mid-2000
bound IA-64 Merced family of 64-bit processors. They also revealed
that the new architecture will not initially utilize RDRAM.
The fund, valued at over 250 million dollars, includes both financial and
technological investments from Dell, Compaq, SGI, Hewlett-Packard,
NEC, and Intel themselves, is dedicated towards the goal of cultivating
and implementing software solutions for the IA-64 architecture in
mid-2000.
"This cross-industry effort will accelerate the development of complete
software solutions for future IA-64 architecture-based high-end
servers and workstations," said John Miner, vice president and general
manager, Intel's Enterprise Server Group. "The Intel 64 Fund
represents input and investment from an industry cross-section, which
will help focus the development of next-generation e-commerce and
Internet solutions. The fund will address the needs of an IT community
actively preparing for IA-64-based platforms beginning with Merced in
mid 2000."
Other points of interest during the press conference included the
statements by Intel's John Miner that engineering samples of the
Merced processor will ship in as little as "two months from
now" as well as that the entire Merced package (Processor,
Operating System and Mainboard Technology) being on track
for a mid-2000 release.
In addition to the announcement of the fund, John surprisingly stated
that Merced's architecture will actually utilize normal SDRAM
at the time of its launch instead of the much written about
Intel RAMBUS technology:
"Servers will follow desktops in the conversion to RDRAM
technology".
There was no time frame estimate given as to when that conversion will
take place. The IA-64 Merced family of products will be available in
high-end enterprise servers in June of 2000.
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