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To: Ibexx who wrote (67816)	11/4/1998 9:06:00 AM
From: greenspirit	Respond to of 186894

Ibexx, and thread...Article...Intel looks beyond Pentium... November 4, 1998 ComputerWorld : CHIP TECHNOLOGY Intel looks beyond Pentium By April Jacobs the 32-bit Xeon processor is just beginning to break in to the corporate mainstream, and the 64-bit Merced is two years away. But Intel Corp. is already describing the successors to those chips, which were designed for high-end workstations and servers. Intel plans to deliver Xeon's 32-bit successor, code-named Foster, in 2000. Merced's 64-bit successor, McKinley, is due in 2001. Intel officials said the chips will have at least twice the performance of their predecessors, especially in number-crunching, design and graphics. Intel offered the road map to give end users who look to the latest and greatest processors a head start in planning to use the technology. The jump in performance that the 64-bit McKinley provides may help Intel and PC server makers use Windows NT to carve more market share from the Unix market, analysts said. FUTURE NEEDS And although the new chips are far off, some users already are anticipating the need to have computers based on them. "We have a very big database environment in the credit-card business, and we're going to need the best CPU resources we can get to support our applications," said Dave Geiver, information technology manager at First Premier Bank in Sioux Falls, S.D. Geiver said the company is in the process of moving to a Microsoft Corp. SQL Server database from a Microsoft FoxPro-based system. The new SQL database will increase the bank's processing requirements, as will a business plan that includes nearly doubling First Premier's employee head count, he said. The business case at First Premier is clear: Faster performance means an increase in production from employees, as they process thousands of applications and accounts. "As soon as the 64-bit systems are certified, I definitely see us wanting them," Geiver said. But, for the lower-end end user, the technology probably is nine months to one year behind the chip release dates, according to John Dunkle, an analyst at Workgroup Strategic Services Inc. in Portsmouth, N.H. That's because, as usual, companies are likely to spend the extra money on high- end users to give them the best technology to get their jobs done, but will hold off for users where it isn't necessary. Intel isn't talking pricing yet, but analysts familiar with the company said these new chips will likely debut in systems that start at about $3,000 for the typical workstation/PC and move upward in the server market.P _____________________________________________________________________ Michael