Intel Forum Unveils a Slew of Products
By CXOtoday Staff
Mumbai, Apr 18, 2007

Intel, the Santa Clara giant and the world's largest chipmaker unveiled a slew of new products aimed at its traditional rival, Advanced Micro Processor Devices at the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing.

Gelsinger provided performance indicators for Intel's upcoming Penryn family of processors. For desktop PCs, Gelsinger claims increases of about 15 percent for imaging-related applications; 25 percent for 3-D rendering; more than 40 percent for gaming; and more than 40 percent faster video encoding.

"The Internet is one of the driving forces in today's PC market and there is a desire for the Internet to be mobile," said David (Dadi) Perlmutter, Intel senior vice president and general manager, Mobility Group.

"Intel is serving the market today with notebook PCs, and will expand its reach by adding WiMax to notebooks as well as small form factor MIDs in 2008", added Perlmutter.

Perlmutter continued by discussing the importance of high-performance processors to enable users to have mobile access to the internet. Intel claims to provide processors based on silicon technology to deliver energy efficiency and greater battery life needed by users on-the-go including the next generation Centrino processor technology "Santa Rosa".

The company also has plans for Intel QuickAssist Technology - a initiative to optimize use of accelerators in servers. Accelerators increase performance of a single function, like security encryption or financial computation, while reducing power consumption.

Gelsinger unveiled "Tolapai" plans; the first in what will be a family of enterprise-class "system-on-chip" (SoC) products to integrate key system components in a single Intel architecture-based processor. The quad- and dual-core Intel Xeon processor 7300 series will arrive in the third quarter in 80- and 50-watt versions for blades. The new servers will complete the company's transition to its Intel Core microarchitecture for Xeon processors.

Intel will introduce the next-generation Intel vPro processor technology, codenamed "Weybridge", in the second half of the year and using the new Intel 3 Series Chipset family, formerly codenamed "Bear Lake". This will follow the launch of Intel Centrino Pro processor technology, bringing the business-centric features of vPro systems to notebooks for the first time.

Kim detailed Intel's strategy to deliver a common, unified IA-based processor foundation across PC and CE platforms. He said the Intel CE 2110 Media Processor, a system-on-a-chip (SoC) architecture for CE devices will help manufacturers accelerate time to market for smarter, more cost-effective designs that provide necessary performance, flexibility and headroom. Kim said the company will deliver its first CE-optimized IA-based SoC in 2008.

Intel also plans to deliver a number of desktop computer products later this year, including updates to its Intel Viiv processor technology roadmap, and a new high-end enthusiast and gaming platform codenamed "Skulltrail".