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To: Ibexx who wrote (68297)	11/10/1998 10:41:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Ibexx & Intel Investors - Intel's 1999 R & D will be 50% Enterprise Related Intel is putting at least half of its R & D resources next year into the high end Enterprise "SPACE", which will definitely help maximize the return on R & D Dollars! Paul {===============================} infoworld.com Intel plans half of its R&D in enterprise By James Niccolai InfoWorld Electric Posted at 1:26 PM PT, Nov 10, 1998 SAN FRANCISCO -- More than half of Intel's research and development spending next year will be devoted to improving its high-end workstation and server products, and the company has some initiatives under way to improve the performance of Intel-based enterprise systems, a senior Intel executive said at Oracle's OpenWorld conference here Tuesday. With the release of its Pentium II Xeon processor last June and the expected release in 2000 of its first 64-bit processor, Intel is increasingly becoming a player in the lucrative, high-end processor market, Paul Otellini, executive vice president and general manager of Intel's architecture business group, told Oracle users who packed a hall here Tuesday. Intel will increase the speed of its Pentium II Xeon chips to 500-MHz in the first half of next year, and to 600-MHz in the second half, Otellini said. But rather than focus on increasing clock speed alone, the chip maker is investing in other areas that will make Intel-based systems a solid platform to run electronic commerce, data mining, warehousing, and complex business forecasting applications, he said. Intel on Wednesday will announce an initiative dubbed Next-Generation I/O, aimed at developing a new input/output specification for servers and workstations that should improve overall system performance as well as compatibility between servers, Otellini said. The new I/O is "still way off" and will take about two years to come to fruition, Otellini said. The chip maker has also kicked off an initiative to allow greater interoperability between applications written for the various versions of Unix. "Not a common Unix, but common APIs (application programming interfaces) to help developers make products that work across various flavors," Otellini said. The company will also continue to invest in graphics technologies, chip sets, and network technologies to bring overall system performance into balance with the speed of its processors, Otellini said. Intel is working with Oracle to ensure availability of Oracle software on its 64-bit processor, code-named Merced, when it arrives. "Oracle is already up and running on a Merced simulator in our labs today," Otellini said. In a series of demonstrations, the Intel executive tried to show how Intel-based workstations and servers can be used for electronic commerce and supply chain management, and to run complex data-mining applications against Oracle databases. One demonstration involved a speech-enabled data-mining application developed by Linguistic Technologies. An executive from that company used the application to query an Oracle database containing sales and customer data. Speaking into a microphone attached to a notebook computer, the executive asked, "Computer, give me a pie chart showing sales for each category of product." A multicolored pie chart popped up on the viewing screen in the auditorium, prompting an appreciative murmur from conference attendees. Otellini was joined on stage by Casey Powell, chief executive officer of Sequent Computer, who announced what he said was a new performance record for Sequent's 64-way systems running on Intel's Pentium II Xeon processors. Intel Corp., in Santa Clara, Calif., is at www.intel.com. James Niccolai is a San Francisco correspondent for the IDG News Service, an InfoWorld affiliate. Related articles: "Intel, IBM plan overhauls of server design" Go to the Week's Top News Stories Please direct your comments to InfoWorld Deputy News Editor, Carolyn April Copyright © 1998 InfoWorld Media Group Inc.