IA-64IA-64 ProgramProgram OverviewOverview Ronald E Curry Director of Marketing IA-64 Processor Division Intel Corporation Intel ® Labs AgendaAgenda l The IA-64 Opportunity l IA-64 Program Update l Get Started on IA-64 Today Intel ® Labs IA-64IA-64 NextNext GenerationGeneration ArchitectureArchitecture Performance IA-64 Architecture: n Explicit Parallelism n Predication n Speculation n Massive Resources Superscalar Architectures 1.5 - 3 instructions / cycle CISC/RISC < 1 instruction / cycle 20-30% increase per year from semiconductor technology advances .3 ins / cycle Time Greater room for growth than traditional architectures Intel ® Labs IAIA ServerServer andand WorkstationWorkstation RoadmapRoadmap .. .. .. Madison .. IA-64 Perf .. .. ExtendsExtends IAIA Headroom,Headroom, Deerfield ScalabilityScalability andand AvailabilityAvailability IA-64 Price/Perf forfor thethe MostMost McKinley DemandingDemanding EnvironmentsEnvironments .. .. .. Future IA-32 Merced Performance Foster Cascades OutstandingOutstanding ® Pentium III Xeon™ PerformancePerformance forfor Processor 3232 BitBit VolumeVolume AppsApps ’99 ’00 ’01 ’02 .25µ .18µ .13µ Performance, Price/Performance, Scalability, Availability, Compatibility Intel ® Labs MercedMerced PublicPublic CommitmentsCommitments Third Party Operating Software Workstation Enterprise OEMs Vendors System Tools & Inf. Software Software Vendors Vendors Vendors Vendors • Bull • Adaptec • Compaq • EPC • Adobe • Ariba • Compaq • American • HP • Hummingbird • Avid • Baan • Data General Arium • IBM/SCO • IBM • Cadence • IBM • Dell • AMI • Microsoft • MetaWare • MSC • Informix • Fujitsu • ATI • Novell • Microsoft • Mental Images • Microsoft • HP Technologies • Sun • NAG • Mentor Graphics• Nuance • Hitachi • Data General • Linux • PGI • Parametric • Open Market • IBM • Emulex • SCO • Softimage • Oracle • NCR • Evans & • Sun • Synopsys • PeopleSoft • NEC Sutherland • Viewlogic • Persistence • Sequent • HP • SAP • SGI • LSI Logic • SAS • Siemens • Matrox • Softway • Unisys • Mylex • SpeechWorks • Phoenix • TimesTen • Q-logic • Torrent • 3D Labs • Weblogic Intel ® Best in class solutions from the leading vendors Labs All trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners OEMOEM MercedMerced CommitmentsCommitments l “Compaq is committed to be among the lead vendors offering Merced based IA64 solutions to our Enterprise and Workstation customers.” u Mary McDowell, Vice President & General Manager, Compaq Corporation l “Fujitsu is developing highly differentiated IA-64 based systems with Merced as well as its successors for mission critical environments and will provide the best enterprise solutions for customers” u Masahiro Kawakatsu, GM, Computer Systems Division II, Fujitsu l “HP's commitment to deliver Merced-based servers affords the developer's community a robust platform for enterprise solutions.” u Barbara Braum, R&D Manager, Hewlett Packard l “Hitachi will launch Merced server systems, including 8way and higher systems, for the emerging Internet business market," u Toshihiko Odaka, Senior Vice President and Director, President & Chief Executive Officer, Information & Telecommunication Systems, Hitachi, Ltd. l "As a strategic business partner with Intel, IBM is committed to enterprise-class IA-64 servers. Delivered concurrent with Merced, these systems will exploit progressive processor technologies, industry-leading OS, and IBM Netfinity X-architecture innovations.” u Randy Groves, Vice President of Netfinity Product Development, IBM Corp. Intel ® Labs All trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners OEMOEM MercedMerced CommitmentsCommitments l “NEC is developing an original chipset to support scalable 16-way Merced processors SMP (64GB memory), large I/O with up to 128 PCI slots, and advanced RAS features.” u Kazuhiko Kobayashi, Associate Senior VP, NEC Corporation l "Sequent is building scalable, high availability, Merced processor based NUMA systems designed to deliver Project Monterey's UNIX platform for IA-64 to support the world's largest enterprises.” u Jeff Pancottine, Vice President of Marketing, Sequent Computer Systems, Inc. l "SGI is committed to delivering modular, Terabyte+ shared physical memory, Linux OS systems in 2000, scaling from 2 to 512 Merced CPUs.” u Jan Silverman, VP of Marketing, Computer Systems Business Unit, SGI l “Siemens will support its customers to deploy their corporate IT infrastructure on market standard servers based on Merced and future IA-64 processors” u Robert Hoog; President, Computer Systems; Siemens Computer Systems l “Unisys CMP is a breakthrough technology that provides mainframe- class scalability, Merced and Xeon coexistence in the same server, partitioning, and a shared-everything design.” Intel ® u Dave Houseman, VP, Advanced Technology, Unisys Corporation Labs All trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners MassiveMassive InvestmentInvestment forfor IA-64IA-64 SuccessSuccess lInvestment in processor technology u 5 IA-64 processors currently in development and definition u Hundreds of experienced design engineers across IA-64 projects u Dedicated compiler and software tools teams lInvestment in platform technology u Intel and OEM chipsets designed concurrent with Merced product u Intel IA-64 server and workstation platforms u “Big Iron” OEM platforms ready for first Merced samples u 4 - 4000 processor OEM platforms lInvestment for complete IA-64 solutions u $250M Venture Fund with $100M investment from Intel, OEMs & IT u Millions of dollars in additional equity and NRE investments by Intel u Resource ramp-up targeted at industry software optimization Intel ® Labs MercedMerced LaunchLaunch StartsStarts NowNow l Increased resources on software enabling u Adding hundreds of people to Intel’s software enabling programs u Increased focus on ASC and IT programs l Ramping IT campaign u Strong IA-64 component to Intel’s E-business vision u Major focus on CIO, CEO, CTO for IA-64 u Seed system program planned for IT evaluation in 1H ‘00 l Public rollout of Merced product/technology u Application Developers Architecture Guide released in June u Three days of content at Intel Developers Forum (8/31-9/2) u Expect many demos at Industry events this year u Major technology/info disclosures through 2H ‘99 and into ‘00 n Specific focus on Merced platforms and software development Intel ® Labs AgendaAgenda l The IA-64 Opportunity l IA-64 Program Update l Get Started on IA-64 Today u Attend the IA-64 Track to learn how Intel ® Labs MercedMerced ProgramProgram ProgressProgress l Last IDF (Feb ‘99): l Today: u Merced processor design u Merced processor in fabrication, on track samples underway u Intel® 82460GX PCIset u Intel® 460GX PCIset components design complete sampling u OEM system designs u OEM systems ready for first complete samples u Compilers meeting u Compiler focus now on performance targets productization u Operating systems running u OSVs porting drivers, shipping on simulator development kits u ISVs actively porting u Key applications running on applications simulator, ready for systems u IHVs actively porting drivers u Drivers ready for first systems Focus shifting from pre-silicon development to prototype debug and production ramp Intel ® Labs MercedMerced ProgramProgram ConvergenceConvergence l Merced processor first silicon received - excellent progress l Delivery of engineering samples to OEM’s has begun l Intel® 460GX PCIset sampling now l Many OEM systems ready for initial samples l All OS’s running on Merced simulator and working on bring-up and test l Major applications running on Merced simulator and ready starting initial silicon testing l Key drivers for major OS’s in place All elements in place for rapid debug and ramp to production in ‘00 Intel ® Labs BringingBringing MercedMerced toto ProductionProduction l Initial Step: Functional bring-up u Testing teams will prioritize functional tests first u Strong focus on architecture validation, MP, and availability features u Ensure requirements of target segments are met u Work closely with external test partners l Planned steppings to production u Broad prototype system deployment by Intel and OEM’s u Performance testing/tuning accelerates u Extensive reliability testing l Production schedule u 9 -12 months after first silicon u “Pre-production” samples to OEM’s for testing and qualification about 3 months prior to production release Merced debug/prototype process and timeframe similar to Intel ® 386, 486, Pentium® Pentium® Pro Labs IA-64IA-64 ValidationValidation FocusFocus l Significant pre-silicon testing activity completed u Successful boot of OS kernels on Merced logic model u Post tapeout analysis demonstrated excellent functionality u 460GX system platforms assembled, powered-up and tested l Early silicon testing program in place and executing u Multiple test platforms to test various configurations u Processor testing uses real OS’s and applications l OEM testing partners ready u Variety of system designs in place (from 4 to 64 processors) u Most OEM chipsets complete and integrated into systems u Working with OSV’s to test and bring up OS’s Extensive testing for fastest Intel ® production ramp production ramp Labs IA-64IA-64 OSOS andand ToolsTools StatusStatus l All OS’s running in Merced simulation environment u All OSV’s on-track with hardware bring up u Outstanding Linux progress by Trillian team u Beta OS releases targeted for 1H’00 IA-64 l Software developer training started Q4’98 u ISV event in 4/99 with hundreds of attendees