Barry & Intel Investors - Intel may had security features/encryption to its CPUs, Chip Sets and Motherboards.
Barrett discussed this at the Intel Developers Forum.
An 800 MHz Pentium II was also demonstrated - I wonder if Intel found an application that needed that speed?
Paul
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Intel's Barrett unveils I-commerce plans
By Andy Santoni
InfoWorld Electric
Posted at 12:06 PM PT, Sep 15, 1998
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. -- In his keynote speech at the Intel Developer Forum here Tuesday, company
President and CEO Craig Barrett said Intel in 1999 will add security features to its hardware to spur
Internet-commerce applications.
It is a logical step, according to Nathan Brookwood, principal analyst at Dataquest, in San Jose, Calif.
Intel needs to promote applications that demand faster CPUs to persuade buyers to look at new
machines, he noted.
"They are demonstrating lots of things to make PCs faster," Brookwood pointed out. However,
applications that demand faster PCs are still lacking, he added.
As a result, Intel's effort to move users to faster PCs "is like pushing on a rope," Brookwood said.
One compelling application is "any time, any place electronic commerce," Intel's Barrett said. Intel is
working on these applications on two fronts: eliminating bandwidth bottlenecks and adding security.
In one initiative on the bandwidth side, Intel is working with the ADSL Working Group to bring
higher-speed connections to small offices, home offices, and branch offices.
As for security, "hardware is best at keeping a secret," said David Aucsmith, an Intel security architect, in
a presentation Tuesday.
"Reasonable security levels [are] available via software, but some hardware support enhances security
levels," Aucsmith maintained.
Intel is planning to incorporate security primitives in is products to support security applications,
according to Aucsmith. The company will provide digital signaturing, random number generation,
accelerated cryptography, and other methods, Aucsmith noted.
The technologies will support applications such as smart cards used as "ignition keys" to boot a system,
Aucsmith said.
According to Barrett, Intel will build security features into its CPUs, core logic, and motherboards.
In his address, Barrett also discussed Intel's road map for Intel-architecture, 32-bit (IA-32) and 64-bit
(IA-64) processors.
In the 64-bit arena, Barrett made a point of Intel's continuing plan to introduce the Merced processor first,
in mid-2000, followed by McKinley and other CPUs. This refutes industry reports that the delay in Merced
development might cause Intel to drop the processor from its plans.
Barrett also said 1999 will be "the most intense year for product introductions."
In the first half of the year, Intel will introduce 450-MHz and 500-MHz versions of Katmai, an IA-32,
Pentium II-class processor that incorporates Katmai New Instructions to boost graphics performance,
said Albert Yu, senior vice president of Intel's microprocessor products group. The equivalent device for
workstations and servers is Tanner, the follow-on to the Pentium II Xeon.
Later in the year, Intel will shift to a 0.18-micron production process and introduce Coppermine and
Cascades, the CPUs that replace Katmai and Tanner, respectively, at speeds "much higher than 500
MHz," Yu said. Like the Celeron processor, these chips will integrate Level 2 (L2) cache, he noted.
Whereas Celeron has 128KB of L2 cache, Intel has not yet determined the size of the integrated cache
on Coppermine and Cascades, Yu said. Industry observers expect the chips to incorporate 256KB of L2
cache.
Yu also demonstrated an IA-32 processor running at 800 MHz.
Merced is the entry product for IA-64, Yu reiterated. The chip's logic design is complete, and Intel is
planning for production in mid-2000, he added.
McKinley will follow Merced in the second half of 2001, Yu said. He expects McKinley to double Merced's
performance.
Two follow-ons to McKinley are already in the works, according to Yu.
Future IA-32 processors are also in Intel's road map, Yu said. The company is slating one for mid-2001
and another will follow, continuing the IA-32 family, he said.
Intel Corp., in Santa Clara, Calif., is at (800) 628-8686 or intel.com.
Andy Santoni is a senior writer at InfoWorld.
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