“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…”