Grove: Will Merced work?
Intel Chairman Andy Grove says Merced will yield silicon "in a few weeks time." At that point, he said, "We will know then whether it works or it doesn't."
Merced, the code-name for the company's first 64-bit processor, was shown running the Linux kernel in a demonstration Grove and Intel senior vice president Sean Maloney gave at the LinuxWorld trade show in Silicon Valley.
Maloney also announced that IBM has joined the Trillian group, which is porting Linux to IA-64, along with SGI, Hewlett-Packard Co., Cygnus Solutions Inc. and Intel. Trillian will release the source for the Linux IA-64 kernel in the first quarter of next year.
The Intel execs said the company will make Merced servers available to prominent Linux test beds, such as SUSE, TurboLinux, Caldera, RedHat and VA Research Inc.
The complete story is posted at www.zdnn.com .
- Intel, IDT sign cross-licensing pact
- PC makers announce Athlon-based systems
- FIC to support Athlon processor
- Dell offers Linux to the masses
- Online postage gets stamp of approval
- Compu-DAWN wants Kmart shoppers' attention
- H-P readies workstation for Discreet 3D
- New Intel StrataFlash triples read performance
- Microworkz tries 'free' deal with AT&T
- FTC ends Intel probe
- IBM joins Athlon parade
- Compaq offers trade-in - without trading in
- IBM disk breaks records
- AltaVista offers free Web access
- AMD spurns Rambus, favors PC133
- NEC to launch all-in-one desktop
- Massively parallel 3D chip to power graphics card
- Psygnosis game to feature parental gore filter
