Mental Ray: Intel's first foot

mental images recently announced that its high-end Mental Ray rendering
software was the first workstation application to run on Intel's first
engineering samples of the IA-64 Itanium-based platform. mental images and
Intel have been working hand-in-hand to create a version of Mental Ray that
was ported and optimized for the Itanium processor. The new platform was
demonstrated to attendees of the Intel Developer Forum in Palm Springs by
Intel CEO Craig Barrett on an early version of Microsoft's 64-bit version
of Windows, and in conjunction with Mental Ray. Itanium will be available
in the second half of 2000, with mental images' Mental Ray ready for the
new platform.