Intel intros lower-power chips
p2pnet.net News:- Intel says it’s on a new "performance per watt" course to deliver more energy-efficient computers.
And, says, ceo and president Paul Otellini, the lower-power products will lead to a new category of ultra-energy-efficient handtop PC devices that’ll provide a "converged communication and PC-like experience" but will require less than a watt of processing power and weigh under a pound.
Chipzilla will introduce the power-optimized micro-architecture for digital home, enterprise, mobile and emerging market platforms in the second half of 2006 in a move that will, “enable a new category of converged consumer devices," said Otellini.
News of the power conservation chips, coupled with the fact Apple has decided to go Intel, won’t do the company any harm, particularly because it’s been suffering from various woes, of late.
It was recently charged that its Pentium D and its chipsets came loaded with DRM, a claim the company denied. It also "reluctantly" agreed to change its business practices in Japan where it was found to have illegally used its market power, “to squeeze out rival Advanced Micro Devices”. And in June, AMD announced it was suing Intel for worldwide coercion of A-brand vendors, local assemblers, distributors and retailers.
Otellini showed the first public demonstration of Merom, Conroe and Woodcrest – processors for notebook, desktop and server platforms designed on Intel’s 65-nanometer technology manufacturing process. He also said Intel has more than 10 processor projects that contain four or more processor cores per chip.
Otellini emphasized that WiMAX plays a key role in both delivering high-speed broadband and premium entertainment to digital homes, as well as Internet access to rural areas.
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See:-
Intel – Intel CEO Outlines New Platform Directions, August 23, 2005
denied – Intel denies DRM charges, June 2, 2005
illegally used – Intel anti-trust finding, April 4, 2005
worldwide coercion – Intel sued by AMD, June 28, 2005
