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Malibu Boats: Malibu Boats Leaves Productivity Wake After Building Online Business Portal for Staff
White Paper In 1982, Malibu Boats built 100 custom ski boats in a small shop in Merced, California. Since that first year, the company has won more Product Excellence Awards than all other competitors combined. Malibu Boats wanted... [09 Feb 2008]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Itanium - what's in a name?
Comment In response to the performance issues of the original Merced version, the Itanium 2 (McKinley) released in 2002 was substantially more powerful, with roughly double the performance. Quocirca's Dennis Szubert dusts off... [06 Nov 2006]
Intel: Next Itanium to run at 1.5GHz
News This is a demonstration that Intel is continuing to execute with precision, which is good," and very much a turnaround from the first-generation "Merced" version of Itanium, said Nathan Brookwood, an Insight64 analyst. [27 Nov 2002]
Itanium 2 - the year's biggest hardware release all about software?
Comment The aim of Itanium 1 - Merced, as it was known, pre-release - was to test the water and help the server companies migrating to the new Intel environment. Chris Ingle, senior consultant at analyst house IDC, said:... [16 Jul 2002]
First time features for upgraded Pentium III processors
News Peter Palm, group marketing manager at Sun's microelectronics division, told Silicon.com: "Intel processors are still 32bit, and it won't be until Merced [first in the range now called Itanium] that they'll have 64bit... [24 Oct 1999]
Intel rebrands Merced as Itanium
News Intel has announced the commercial name for its Merced chip - the Itanium. The chip will be the first built on its IA-64 design and is slated for release in the middle of next year. The chip giant has been developing the... [05 Oct 1999]
Unix benefits from "disappointing" Windows NT, claims SCO chief
News In his keynote speech, he also credited Unix's growth to a move towards the Internet and network computing: "When Merced [64-bit computing] kicks in, that's when the Unix on Intel market will really kick off. [16 Aug 1999]
Intel unveils Linux kernel for Merced
News Intel has announced that the Linux kernel for its next-generation 64-bit Merced chips will be available as open source code. Merced, Intel's first chip built around the 64-bit IA-64 architecture is... [11 Aug 1999]
Intel and HP unveil IA-64 ISA
News Merced, the first implementation of Intel's 64bit architecture, is not due to be available until next year, but yesterday's announcement will help developers design software for the processor which will go up against... [26 May 1999]
Torvalds blames Sun for Java's troubles
News Current work to port Linux to Merced would help the operating system achieve its goal, said Torvalds. Linus Torvalds, the creator of open source software Linux, has voiced his disappointment over the development of Java. [20 Apr 1999]
Intel and S3 settle chip feud
News The agreement should help speed development of Intel's Merced chip which was partly covered by S3 patents. US chip giant Intel has settled its legal feud with graphics processor manufacturer, S3. The companies have... [20 Dec 1998]
Samsung ships 600MHz Alpha chip
News Compaq recently rolled out Alpha-based systems running at 575MHz, but in spite of pledging support to the 64bit chip, observers still believe the company is hedging its bets, in case there are further problems with the roll out of... [01 Dec 1998]
IBM, SCO and Sequent to merge Unix
News IBM says the aim is to bring together its AIX version of Unix, SCO's UnixWare and Sequent's Dynix/PTX as a new operating system (OS) - called Monterey - which will run on Merced, the first implementation of IA-64, as... [27 Oct 1998]
The last days of Alpha
Comment The NT platform of choice in three years time will be Merced - not only another Intel processor but a 64bit one at that. It makes little sense for Compaq to invest heavily in Alpha - a direct competitor to... [22 Oct 1998]
Compaq launches new look Alpha-based servers
News In addition to highlighting Compaq's play for the lucrative enterprise computing market, the GS machines show that as long as there are possible problems with Intel bringing out Merced - the first implementation of its... [19 Oct 1998]
