The Intel® Atom™ processor will be the name for a new family of low-power processors designed specifically for mobile Internet devices (MIDs) and a new class of simple and affordable Internet-centric computers arriving later this year. Together, these new market segments represent a significant new opportunity to grow the overall market for Intel silicon, using the Intel Atom processor as the foundation.
Sun Microsystems over the weekend reportedly leaked on its public Web server slides that provided some details of an upcoming six-core processor from Intel code-named Dunnington.
The Xeon server processor was described as a 45-nanometer chip from the Penryn line, according to the tech site DailyTech. Dunnington, based on the Core 2 architecture, replaces Tigerton, a 65-nanometer, four-core Xeon processor.
Intel was not immediately available for comment on the report.
Intel this spring will launch its next-generation Centrino notebook platform alongside a half dozen new 45 nanometer mobile chips that will eventually make their way into Apple's MacBook and MacBook Pro offerings.
The platform, long referenced by its code-name "Montevina," will be officially dubbed Centrino 2 when it makes its debut at the Computex Taipei 2008 conference, which runs June 3 - 7, according to DigiTimes.
Intel on Monday demonstrated technology that could make it possible someday for a mobile Internet device to switch between a Wi-Fi and a WiMax network without any disruption in service.
The technology, unveiled at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, stems from a research partnership between Intel, handset maker Nokia, and Nokia Siemens Networks. The last is a network communications company formed in 2006 with Nokia's former Network Business Group and the carrier-related businesses of Siemens.
Intel (NSDQ: INTC) and Micron Technology (NYSE: MU) on Friday said they have developed technology for a high-speed solid-state drive that's five times faster than current products used in consumer and professional devices ranging from handheld computers and notebooks to digital cameras and camcorders.
The NAND flash memory chips developed jointly by the two companies can reach speeds of up to 200 MB per second for reading data and 100 MB per second for writing data, the partners said. Current memory chips have maximum read-write speeds of 40 MB and 20 MB, respectively.
Nanochip Inc, a developer of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) silicon data storage chips, has garnered addition funding from Intel Capital and said this week that it will complete development of its first ultra-high capacity storage chip prototypes later this year.
Intel was joined in the $14 million series C2 funding round by JK&B Capital, also a previous investor to Nanochip, and an additional, unnamed investment company.
Intel Q4 increases year-over-year weren't enough to impress investors
Intel was on a roll during latter half of 2007. During Q3 2007, Intel reported a 15 percent increase in revenue to $10.1 billion USD, a 64 percent increase in operating income to $2.2 billion USD and a 43 percent increase in net income to $1.9 billion USD.
Intel has developed a white-box blade server based on standardized components, instead of specialized parts usually used to produce such systems.
Called Clear Bay, the server is based on the Server System Infrastructure Forum's Modular Server Specification announced last July.
Exhibiting at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this week, Intel Corp formally unveiled 16 new microprocessors based on the company's 45-nanometer (nm) manufacturing process, several of which are expected to turn up in products from Apple Inc. over the next several months.
Well, that was short: Intel has announced it is leaving the One Laptop Per Child project.
The news, first reported Thursday by The Wall Street Journal in an e-mail alert, comes just six months after Intel and OLPC founder Nick Negroponte agreed to settle their differences and join forces, united in their goal to bring computing power to emerging nations. The breakup comes after Negroponte apparently wasn't willing to share Intel with others.
