Intel is hoping to have a new chip out that will crank up the power of cell phones
and other wireless products, by combining the devices memory, processing and
communications chips into one. Current wireless products have chips that handle
each task seperately. What this means for us as users, is that cool Dick Tracy like
video wristwatches and portable health scanners are a step closer to reality. Full
story.
'Real Soon Now' is apparently 'Really Soon Now, Honest' for Intel's first IA64 architecture chip, the
Itanium. ZDNet News is reporting that Itanium-based servers and workstations will be released at the end
of May by major computer manufacturers such as Dell, HP and IBM. The chips are due to debut at 733
Intel has finally announced their 1.7GHz Pentium 4 processors. The most amazing part is it seems like we're most certainly going to see a 2GHz proc before year end, and only a year ago we were breaking the 1GHz barrier. AnandTech has a review of the
Intel will release a 1.7GHz Pentium 4 processor on Monday and with it a scorched-earth
approach to the PC market.
The new chip, which will be featured in a number of PCs from major manufacturers, will increase overall desktop performance, especially on entertainment applications such as video encoding, according to company executives.
Equally important, though, Intel will slash the price of the Pentium 4 line and pour millions into advertising and software developer programs to ensure the chip penetrates nearly every segment of the sleepy PC market.
Intel Corp. on Tuesday demonstrated for the first time a fast digital signal processor (DSP) chip designed jointly with Analog Devices Inc that will play a key role in its strategy for wireless devices.
"The MSA (micro signal architecture) silicon is capable of operating at speeds of up to 400MHz, more than twice as fast as other DSPs for wireless handheld devices," Intel said in a statement.
Saw this over at /.:
Ace's Hardware has a blurb up that contains the latest on Intel's roadmap for rolling out IA-64, as well as some new benchmark numbers for the Itanium. With the specific compiler and benchmark used, it's still not looking so great compared to the Alpha.
Intel will dramatically cut prices on the Pentium 4 this month to stimulate demand for its new chip, as the processor market gets even uglier.
The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker will slash Pentium 4 prices by as much as 50 percent this month in two cuts coming Sunday and April 29, industry sources said. As reported earlier, the company also will introduce a 1.7GHz Pentium 4.
Got this from Arstechnica:
"There's nothing like a good, old-fashioned standards war to get competition (or confusion) brewin' again, and that seems to be what Intel is proposing. They've thrown down the gauntlet to AMD's HyperTransport, with a rival, as yet undefined specification intended to replace PCI in desktop computers. From the EET coverage (see also the CNET coverage here):
Now here's something I wasn't expecting, but it makes perfect sense. Intel is no longer playing around with the low power thing by just tweaking their current CPU designs to run on less juice. Nope, they're cooking up an entirely new x86 chip design that's built specifically for the mobile market. This new core, codenamed Banias, will run x86 code on an entirely new microarchitecture.
