EETimes heeft een artikeltje gepost over chipsets voor Intel's Merced processor. IBM heeft een SMP chipset in ontwikkeling met ondersteuning voor maximaal 32 processors (leuk voor in je servertje). Verder in het artikel een stukje over de McKinley, de opvolger van de Merced:
Intel said it remains on schedule to ship production volumes of Merced in mid-2000. McKinley is due to sample in late 2000 and ship in late 2001. Although industry pundits have anxiously awaited Merced, some engineers now appear more interested in its higher-performance successor."There are some good performance enhancements in McKinley, which will lend themselves to very robust systems," said Tom Bradicich, director of architecture and design for IBM's Netfinity server group (Research Triangle Park, N.C.).
According to Intel, McKinley will deliver double the performance of Merced and will run at clock speeds beyond 1 GHz.
