“Intel Corp. Chairman Andy Grove said Tuesday that Intel’s first
64-bit processor, code-named Merced, will yield silicon “in a few
weeks time” and that “we will know then whether it works or it
doesn’t.”
“In a surprise appearance at LinuxWorld Expo in San Jose,
Calif., Grove and Intel senior vice president Sean Maloney
demonstrated the Linux kernel running top of the Merced simulator
generating a transaction.”
“Maloney announced that IBM Corp. 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.”