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To: Sig who wrote (138876)	8/11/1999 12:29:00 PM
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Intel Expects Test Version Of Merced Chip In Weeks>INTC By Mark Boslet SAN JOSE, Calif.--Intel Corp. (INTC) said an initial version of its powerful Merced chip is being manufactured in silicon and should be ready for testing in a few weeks. Already, the design is being run on simulators in the lab with eight different operating systems, including Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) Windows and Linux, the freeware, company officials said at the LinuxWorld expo. The first version of the Merced chip - which processes data in more efficient 64-character strings - is scheduled for commercial release during the second half of 2000. Personal computers today process data in 32-bit chunks. During a presentation at LinuxWorld, Intel Chairman Andrew Grove said he estimates online commerce should equal 1% of the U.S. gross domestic product in 1999, or about $100 billion. In three to four years time, e-commerce will rise to a level equivalent to 10% of the GDP, Grove said. That implies an enormous demand for servers, or the powerful computers installed as network hubs. Only 4% of the servers required by 2005 are deployed today, Grove said. Organizers of the LinuxWorld show said attendance at this week gathering should reach 16,000, or up considerably from the 12,000 developers and vendors who attended the March show. The Linux market is growing rapidly, said Larry Augustin, chief executive of VA Linux Systems, who noted that his hardware and service sales were doubling every quarter. VA Linux, a private Sunnyvale, Calif., company sells into the hottest area of the Linux market: Internet bases servers that often then run the free Apache Web software. But servers did not grab all the attention at the show. Dell Computer Corp. (DELL) acknowledged that it will offer Linux as a factory-installed option in the next few months on its Dimension personal computers for the consumer market and its Inspiron notebooks. The company since May has offered Linux on its OptiPlex line of desktop computers for businesses