BW: Intel'S Craig Barrett Says Pace of Building the Internet Ecomony Must Quicken

"Intel Corporation's president and CEO Craig Barrett told attendees at the Intel Developer Forum that in the future all homes will become e-homes and all business is moving to e-business. He encouraged engineers and developers to "quicken the pace" ...

"Barrett revealed the first public Merced platform demonstration to the crowd. As the first processor in the IA-64 product family, the Merced processor is the ideal engine for e-business."

"Barrett demonstrated the Merced processor on an engineering prototype platform running... a prototype IA-64 Linux Operating System with a web server."

"Intel also announced that it has begun shipment of the first engineering units of the Merced processor to its customers. The Merced program remains on track..."

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