What happened to Intel's Merced IA-64 CPU?

[Ben98SentraSE]

I've been looking up this long-in-the-making processor up on Anandtech as well as other places around the web, and last anyone heard it was coming out in mid-2000. I'm looking in Intel's current roadmap and nowhere is Merced. Could it possibly have been cancelled? It was in development for several years. Has the codename been changed?

 

[Dually]

It'l b eout. I remmember seeing it at Comdex last spring running on Whistler. It was a huge thing at 500mhz with a heatsink the size of dick cheney. It is geared towards servers and development workstations, i expect it by summer.

 

[EvilDonnyboy]

i believe a few samples are already out to major corporate customers to playing around with.

 

[GL]

It's now called the Itanium and is well on its way towards a debut. But it won't be until Itanium's successor that IA-64 becomes prevalent according to Intel. They expect IA-32 to last well into the near future due to the large installed base and the fact that home users just don't need that much power right now.

-GL

 

[Ben98SentraSE]

So it IS the Itanium. That's what I hoped. 🙂 Thanks