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Digital discusses Alpha, Merced and Compaq merger plans
News Copperman was blunt about competing with Intel's 64-bit Merced architecture, due in late 1999. If Merced comes out cheaper and faster than Alpha, then Alpha goes away,'' Copperman said. The plan right now is not to run two separate companies...
[April 1, 1998, 10:43]
Merced makes early advances
News Intel's Merced design partner, Hewlett-Packard Co.this week will release a software transition kit that will help developers move HP-UX 11 applications from HP's PA-RISC architecture to Merced. HP, in Palo Alto, Calif.will join Sun Microsystems Inc...
[February 23, 1998, 15:10]
A Year Ago: Merced makes early advances
News Merced is more than a year down the road, but Intel Corp.and its partners are ramping up their preparations for the 64-bit processor's arrival. Intel's Merced design partner, Hewlett-Packard Co.this week will release a software transition kit that...
[February 23, 1999, 7:16]
Merced: Our industry expects...
News Merced represents a totally new direction for the chip maker and some analysts claim IA-64 could surpass the fastest RISC architectures: "We'll get to the point where it competes seriously with the Alpha RISC," said Linley Gwennap, vice president...
[March 17, 1999, 11:00]
Merced: Worth the wait? What of McKinley?
News While its 32-bit chip family has dominated the desktop workstation and mobile market, Merced is expected to power Intel into the high-end workstation and server space. Well publicised delays have thrown the Merced plans way off course.
[March 17, 1999, 12:54]
Merced: Intel's 64 bit revolution
News As with any other significant advance in PC technology, the planned launch of Intel's next generation processor, Merced, has caused huge amounts of confusion among users. In this particular case rumour, speculation and overzealous reporting have...
[March 16, 1999, 16:23]
Merced's complete but Intel misses earnings
News Intel Corp.on Tuesday missed analysts' expectations for its second fiscal quarter but said its 64-bit Merced chip's design is complete. Intel Senior VP Paul Otellini said Intel is on track to ship Merced to OEMs this quarter.
[July 14, 1999, 16:53]
Microsoft test drives Intel Merced
News The first product in the IA-64 range will be the chip code-named Merced, but Intel will only commit to a ship date "during the next few years". Microsoft intends to release the 64-bit NT at the same time as Intel releases Merced.
[September 23, 1996, 10:47]
Intel, HP say Merced will be EPIC
News Merced, the first Intel processor to incorporate the 64-bit architecture, will be delivered in 1999. The word Merced was mentioned only once during the presentation, when Intel fellow John Crawford said Merced would be the first processor to...
[October 15, 1997, 10:41]
Digital returns Merced papers to Intel
News He declined to say specifically which portion of its documents Digital has agreed to return, but a Digital spokesman told Reuters earlier today that it will return documents related to Merced, the code-name for Intel's next generation IA-64...
[July 22, 1997, 9:42]
Blue chip development fund to boost Merced
News The first, the Merced processor, is due to ship in mid-2000. Nigel Grierson, Intel director of European corporate business development, said developers will not need to have products ready for the release of Merced.
[May 17, 1999, 7:27]
Intel details 1999 Merced release
News The Santa Clara, Calif.company said it will deliver Merced sometime in 1999 and that it will be built on a .18-micron process. Previously, Intel officials would say only that Merced would be available by the turn of the century.
[October 10, 1997, 9:27]
A Year Ago: Intel details 1999 Merced release
News Pre-empting next week's Microprocessor Forum, Intel Corp.today gave a more definitive timetable for the release of its first IA-64 microprocessor, code-named Merced. The Santa Clara, Calif.company said it will deliver Merced sometime in 1999 and...
[October 9, 1998, 6:33]
Intel christens Merced family
News Dumping its Merced codename, Intel on Monday christened its IA-64 family of processors Itanium and aimed them squarely at the Internet Economy. Take me to the Merced Special. The Intel Itanium processor represents a new level of processor...
[October 4, 1999, 15:54]
Novell bets its future on Merced
News Novell gave attendees at its annual BrainShare conference a glimpse into the future yesterday when executives outlined plans to build a 64-bit version of NetWare for Intel's forthcoming Merced architecture.
[March 26, 1998, 9:17]
McKinley servers to massively undercut Merced
News The first Itanium processor, based on the Merced core, has had a cautious welcome from customers. Only about 70,000 systems based on Merced shipped worldwide from all computer makers in 2001, and Dell recently ceased manufacture of its Itanium...
[January 16, 2002, 14:59]
IDF: McKinley to be twice as fast as Merced, says Intel
News The microarchitecture will be enhanced, with six integer execution units to Merced's four, two loads and two stores per clock (double that of Merced), and 11 issue ports. McKinley will not be physically compatible with Merced, using a different...
[August 29, 2001, 11:24]
Intel offers sneak peek at Merced
News At an invitation-only event held recently for software developers, Intel showed a prototype of a four-way Merced server with 64GB of memory. Sources say Intel showed a diagram of the machine at its Fall Intel Developers Forum in the U.S.and also...
[June 29, 1999, 16:07]
700MHz PIII's to ship in Oct, as Merced wows PC makers
News The building blocks include Intel's first effort at a 64-bit processor, code-named Merced. Intel also demonstrated a working version of a Merced chip in a workstation, rendering graphics, among other things.
[September 1, 1999, 9:01]
Barrett on the soapbox for Merced
News Not surprisingly, Barrett touted Intel's upcoming 64-bit Merced chip as the future "engine for e-business", reiterating that it should ship by the middle of 2000. We are really looking at [Merced] to be one of the main engines in electronic...
[August 27, 1999, 9:58]
