Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Intel Corporation (INTC) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (65216)	9/22/1998 9:22:00 AM
From: greenspirit	Respond to of 186894

Glenn and thread, Article...Intel Merced apps sought - Development tools debut for CPU... September 22, 1998 InfoWorld : Intel is shipping a "pre-silicon development environment" to independent hardware and software vendors to ensure that complementary products are available when the IA-64 Merced processor ships in mid-2000. Provided at no charge, the software runs on an IA-32 Pentium II-class system, according to Rumi Zahir, a senior computer architect at Intel. The utilities aim to help developers build applications more quickly, he said. The environment will let developers debug their products even before Merced is available in silicon, said Nathan Brookwood, principal analyst at Dataquest, in San Jose, Calif. Intel cannot sell hardware if there are no applications available to use it, Brookwood noted. That explains the company's partnerships with Unix vendors to port their operating systems to Merced, he added. "The enterprise space is more Unix than anything else," Brookwood said. And because Windows NT has not yet been shown to scale beyond four CPUs, Intel is encouraging Unix vendors to do so, he added. "Intel would love to have a little more software-platform independence, " Brookwood said. At the same time, Microsoft does not want to have all of its eggs in the Intel basket, and it is using the processor-independent Windows CE to disengage from Intel, he added. On top of the OS, Merced will run IA-32 applications without modifications, according to Zahir. It will also run IA-64 software with 32- or 64-bit pointers, he said. Zahir stressed that Merced is the entry product in the IA-64 family and will be followed by the McKinley processor and other 64-bit CPUs. Intel last week also announced the availability of the Wired for Management 2.0 PC management specification, which focuses on LANs and remote management.