San Francisco - Computer chip-maker Intel announced plans to invest 7 billion dollars over the next two years to expand and transform three US manufacturing plants to produce the smaller 32- nanometer transistors.
The move to invest in the plants in Arizona, New Mexico and Oregon could see Intel gain a priceless advantage over smaller rivals like Advanced Micro Devices which don't have the financial resources to invest in new fabrication facilities.
A high-end server chip, which is being considered as the world's first 2 billion transistor microprocessor, originally expected as earlier as in year 2007, has been delayed by Intel.
It has been learnt that basically, Tukwila is a quad-core update to the Itanium processor that has had a less-than-promising run since the time the original version was announced back in 2001.
A statement issued by Intel specified on Thursday, "Intel has made some engineering enhancements to the Tukwila platform."
With the aim to create even faster CPU than its current Yorkfield 45nm Core 2 based Xeon, Intel is planning to come out with an upgraded edition of the same that will operate at 3.16GHz. The present fastest Yorkfield based Xeon is X3370 at 3.0 GHz clock 12MB cache and FSB 1333 was carrying a price tag of $525, but from 18th January its price has come down to $317.
It has been learnt that Intel is engaging in talks with Indian service providers and device manufacturers with the motive to help them in bringing WiMAX-ready notebooks and netbooks to the India market segment mid-2009.
It was informed by Intel vice president and general manager of the WiMAX Program Office, Sriram Viswanathan, “I have outlined an alliance focused on delivering affordable devices to Indians that take advantage of upcoming 4G WIMAX networks.”
In start, 2.3 and 2.5 GHz devices are to be the focused on.
Intel, in the journal Nature Photonics, has claimed world record performance in optical communications using silicon photonics.
The major utilization of the Silicon photonics-based photo dectors is to send and receive optical information, particularly in very high-bandwidth applications like supercomputers. “Silicon photonics is essential for ultra-fast transfer of data (in) future computers powered by many processor cores,” reported Intel.
With the aim to invent something extraordinary and unique, Intel is creating self-powered microchips. The unique thing about these microchips would be that it could be implanted in the human body, a mobile phone, a building, or anyplace else where people wish to gather information.
During a meeting on Friday with reporters in San Francisco, Intel CTO Justin Rattner described it as “wireless identification and sensing platform,” or WISP and it was among several other technologies described by Rattner during the meeting.
San Francisco - Computer chip-maker Intel announced plans to invest 7 billion dollars over the next two years to expand and transform three US manufacturing plants to produce the smaller 32- nanometer transistors.
A high-end server chip, which is being considered as the world's first 2 billion transistor microprocessor, originally expected as earlier as in year 2007, has been delayed by Intel. 
With the aim to create even faster CPU than its current Yorkfield 45nm Core 2 based Xeon, Intel is planning to come out with an upgraded edition of the same that will operate at 3.16GHz. The present fastest Yorkfield based Xeon is X3370 at 3.0 GHz clock 12MB cache and FSB 1333 was carrying a price tag of $525, but from 18th January its price has come down to $317. 
It has been learnt that Intel is engaging in talks with Indian service providers and device manufacturers with the motive to help them in bringing WiMAX-ready notebooks and netbooks to the India market segment mid-2009.
Intel, in the journal Nature Photonics, has claimed world record performance in optical communications using silicon photonics. 
With the aim to invent something extraordinary and unique, Intel is creating self-powered microchips. The unique thing about these microchips would be that it could be implanted in the human body, a mobile phone, a building, or anyplace else where people wish to gather information. 
