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To: Gerald Walls who wrote (87497)	8/31/1999 4:16:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

Gerald & Intel Investors - More On Intel's Merced Sampling To Customers Intel Corp. (Nasdaq:INTC - news) said it has reached a major milestone in the development of its next generation processor, code-named Merced, and it is now shipping engineering samples to computer makers for testing. ''This is the very first Merced coming out of the manufacturing line,'' said Gadi Singer, vice president and general manager of Intel's IA-64 processor division, as he conducted the first public demonstration of the chip at the Intel Developer Forum here. The demonstration represents a key manufacturing step, or ''first silicon'' for the chip. Singer, who joined Intel president and chief executive Craig Barrett on the stage, demonstrated Merced running on an early version of Microsoft Corp.'s (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) Windows 2000 and on a next-generation version of the free Linux operating system, both of which are currently in development. Paul {=================================} dailynews.yahoo.com Tuesday August 31 3:52 PM ET Intel Shipping First Engineering Samples Of Merced PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (Reuters) - Intel Corp. (Nasdaq:INTC - news) said it has reached a major milestone in the development of its next generation processor, code-named Merced, and it is now shipping engineering samples to computer makers for testing. Merced is the first chip in a family designed around a new 64-bit architecture, which Intel has been developing with Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE:HWP - news) since 1994. A 64-bit chip architecture will process data in chunks of 64 bits, versus the current standard 32-bit architecture. ''This is the very first Merced coming out of the manufacturing line,'' said Gadi Singer, vice president and general manager of Intel's IA-64 processor division, as he conducted the first public demonstration of the chip at the Intel Developer Forum here. The demonstration represents a key manufacturing step, or ''first silicon'' for the chip. Singer, who joined Intel president and chief executive Craig Barrett on the stage, demonstrated Merced running on an early version of Microsoft Corp.'s (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) Windows 2000 and on a next-generation version of the free Linux operating system, both of which are currently in development. ''We are looking at Merced as the new engine for e-business,'' Barrett said, as he touted data showing that as the Internet becomes more pervasive, more and more network servers will be required. Merced is designed to run workstations and servers and is not expected to be used in PCs until mid-2000. Barrett said the company was on track for volume production for Merced in mid-2000. Company executives declined to say how many prototypes of the chip they are shipping to computer makers, or to identify which computer makers are receiving the samples. The companies are helping Intel with its testing and validation of the chip, which will take about nine to 12 months. ''It's good news,'' said Rick Doherty, director of Envisioneering, a consulting firm in Seaford, N.Y. ''The updated timetable will ease a lot of developers's concerns.