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Ted Drude

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With Pentium III released, Intel readies Merced for next year

PC chip clock speeds will increase, benchmark numbers will migrate upward, and prices will gravitate downward. But dramatic changes will not happen until mid to late 2000, when Intel Corp.'s long-awaited Merced (IA-64) CPU starts shipping. When it arrives, Merced will likely give Intel an even stronger foothold in the workstation arena. Until then, Intel x86 architecture will get several performance boosts.

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PC workstation Buyers Guide

Sit quietly and you can almost hear it—the growl of more and more powerful technical workstations. Many desktop PCs now give performances that back claims to workstation status. Technical workstations have come in two flavors: the conventional RISC desktop machine running Unix and the high-end PC with an Intel chip running Microsoft Windows NT. But the number of choices is expanding.