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To: Tony Viola who wrote (87632)	9/2/1999 2:31:00 PM
From: Charles R	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 186894

Tony, <It will go to production. HP and about 20 other server Manufacturers are waiting for it. Don't you believe HP's management that has come out several times on this recently? Talk about desperation.> Have you ever designed a chip? Have you looked at how closely Merced has stayed to its 1998 production schedule? Do you know what it means if the delays continue? Do you know programs are routinely terminated because they are no longer competitive by the time they reach production? Do you understand why there has been so much flap over Merced in the first place? Do you remember the last time Intel showed off alpha silicon? Talk about desperation! Chuck

To: Tony Viola who wrote (87632)	9/2/1999 8:33:00 PM
From: Process Boy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Tony - Check this out theregister.co.uk Posted 03/09/99 12:46am by Mike Magee in Palm Springs How Intel raced flat out to demo Merced The background to the introduction of Intel's Merced processor earlier this week has emerged. The Register beat the world's press with the news that Intel had booted silicon in the week before the Forum. According to the report between that first boot and Intel's Craig Barrett showing it, engineers worked flat out to show a stable demonstration at the Intel Developer Forum. *So far, and in its early stages, it is as fast as AMD's Athlon using the SpecINT benchmark but shows far better performance in SpecFP.* If the debug and testing stage goes to schedule, full production will start around this time in the year 2000. Merced will initially appear with 1Mb, 2Mb and 4Mb on die SRAM cache, but our sources suggest that when it is shrunk to .18 micron, which will happen at release time, Intel is likely to achieve 1GHz speeds. Your Register had a world scoop at the last Intel Developer Forum in February with pictures of the cartridge, which may be found here. ®