Merced Processor Progress

        Final stages of functional logic validation
                 Multiprocessor OS Kernel booting on Merced logic model
        Thorough MP system validation underway
                 Elaborate logic simulation on pre-silicon
                 Large number of post-silicontests already ported

        Physical implementation well on track
                 Timing convergence nearing completion
                 Circuit design making excellent progress
                 Layout completion in lock step with circuit design



Samples in '99, production in mid-2000
 
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