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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JC Jaros who wrote (20671)	10/4/1999 9:41:00 PM
From: cfimx	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

gee, i guess this whole FREE OS thingy has NO implications for sun.com. jeesh, talk about a biased analysis.

To: JC Jaros who wrote (20671)	10/4/1999 9:44:00 PM
From: QwikSand	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

Ya gotta love this name. But I would have preferred "Itanic". --QS SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 4 (Reuters) - Computer chip giant Intel Corp. said that it has selected "Itanium" as the brand name for the first product in its next generation of microprocessors, previously code-named Merced. Intel's Itanium chip is expected to be in volume production by mid-2000. In late August, Intel announced a major milestone in the development of the new architecture -- it achieved first silicon of the chip, meaning that it had manufactured the first actual chips based on the design. Itanium is the company's first chip to use its new IA-64 architecture, which will process data in chunks of 64 bits, rather than the 32-bits that chips like the Pentium III process today. Intel has been working with Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE:HWP) since 1994 on developing the new architecture. "When we went through the naming process, the intent was to come up with a name that would connote the strength of the IA-64 technology," said Jami Dover, vice president of Intel's worldwide sales and marketing group. She said Intel also wanted to have a suffix that would connect with its Pentium brand. The Itanium will be targeted at the high performance workstation and server market and will not initially be marketed as a desktop processor. Dover said that when people hear the name Itanium, they will likely associate it with the metallic element titanium, which is a strong, low-density, corrosive-resistant element. "We wanted to make it clear that this is a very high end computing platform, designed for very robust computing," Dover said. Intel plans to reveal more technical details about the chip and how it works at the Microprocessor Forum on Tuesday in San Jose, Calif., a technical conference for systems designers and semiconductor engineers.