Once again, Intel is ramping up its quad-core lineup.
This time, the world's largest chip maker is scheduled to unveil a pair of Xeon quad-core processors with 50-watt thermal envelopes. This represents a 60 percent decrease in power use from early chips that had 120 thermal watt envelopes and a 38 percent drop from 80-watt models.
Intel Corp. has designed a computer chip that promises to perform calculations as quickly an entire data center - while consuming as much energy as a light bulb.
The world's biggest chipmaker said Sunday it developed a programmable processor that can perform about a trillion calculations per second, or deliver a performance of 1.01 teraflops. It accomplishes this feat while consuming 62 watts of power when the chip is running at a frequency of 3.16 gigahertz.
Recently launched servers from the likes of Dell and IBM, based on quad-core Clovertown processors from Intel, highlight the fast progress of multicore technology over the past year. Whether this pace actually benefits the industry or IT buyers is less clear, however.
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Intel's quad-core processors have officially hit the marketplace, after being first demonstrated in September at the Intel Developer Forum.
The chip giant announced pricing and availability for four Xeon 5300 processors, as well as the Core 2 Extreme.
The Xeon chips range from 1.60GHz to 2.66GHz. Three have 80W of power consumption, while the 2.66GHz model consumes 120W.
Intel Corp. has attached a privacy license to its new location-aware software product, intended to protect cell phone users? personal information as mobile devices increasingly rely on tracking technology to provide targeted services.
Intel announced on Tuesday in the US it has put together a collaboration software suite that it will offer to small and medium-size businesses via its resellers.
Intel held a press conference at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco this week to give details of the move, alongside open-source support provider SpikeSource and other companies.
Called SuiteTwo, the package will include software from Six Apart, Socialtext, NewsGator and SimpleFeed. These are small software companies that provide applications for blogs, RSS feeds, wikis and social networking.
To resolve the seemingly never ending stream of spam, viruses and malware that is causing PCs and notebooks to crash seemingly at will is akin to searching for the ?Holy Grail?. But Intel, armed with its latest system defence technology known as vPro, claims to have the cure.
Intel Corp on Tuesday posted a third-quarter profit that fell by more than one-third from a year earlier, as the world's biggest chipmaker felt the impact of price cuts.
Intel, which supplies the vast majority of chips that power personal computers, had a net profit of $US1.3 billion ($A1.73 billion), or 22 US cents per share, compared to $US2 billion, or 34 US cents per share, a year earlier.
The company had been expected to show a profit, excluding special items, of $US1.02 billion, or 17 US cents per share, according to the average analyst forecast on Reuters Estimates.
Intel said this week that it will add several broadband options to its Centrino platform, including 802.11n Wi-Fi, HSDPA wireless broadband, and WiMAX, a metropolitan wireless broadband technology. All three will provide notebook users with short, medium, and long-range connectivity options, helping users stay connected wirelessly as much as possible.
Intel plans to begin shipping microprocessors that have four computing engines on a single chip ? products that analysts say will help it win back market share from rival Advanced Micro Devices.
The first chip, the Intel Core 2 Extreme quad-core processor, will be available in November. Intel says it will deliver a 70% performance improvement over Intel's current chips, which have one or two computing cores. The new chip is aimed at gamers, programmers and other people with heavy-duty computing needs.
