De beweringen van Client Server News dat de release van de Itanium wordt uitgesteld naar het vierde kwartaal, worden door Intel tegengesproken.Intel liet tegenover The Register weten dat de introductie nog steeds gepland staat voor dit kwartaal. Intel organiseert in augustus weer een Development Forum en dan krijgen we ongetwijfeld meer te horen over de Itanium:
According to a report which you can find here, Intel's production of the Itanium has slipped from Q3 to Q4 this year.But that claim was denied by an Intel representative, who said: "There are 5,000 development systems out in the field, and the recent Microsoft-Intel announcement [about Win64] lends further weight to OS support and progress.
"We expect production processor silicon in Q3'00, with system availability beginning in the second half of 2000."
[...] Last month, in Stockholm, CEO Craig Barrett, Intel's supremo, said that Itanium (formerly codenamed Merced) was still on target.
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