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Anand Parthasarathy

Intel touts `impassioned embrace of Moore's Law' for its multi-core roadmap

MR PAT GELSINGER, Intel senior Vice-President and General Manager of the Digital Enterprise Group, shows off the Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 5300 series for dual processing servers.

San Francisco , Sept. 28

Intel will continue to capitalise on Moore's Law — co founder Gordon Moore's prediction of a doubling of computer performance every two years — as it boots the corporate computing business into a new era of multiple cores on a single chip. In his keynote at the company's semi annual gathering of geeks, the Senior Vice-President for Digital Enterprise, Mr Pat Gelsinger, unveiled samples of the next generation Xeon 5300 processor that will come with four separate processors on a single chip.

New chip

The chip, that will become available before the year-end, is touted as the industry's first 4-in-1 solution for the enterprise market. And by making it socket-compatible with the existing dual core Xeon, Intel hopes to persuade the high-end server market to make a painless switch to a new era where challenging number-crunching tasks are farmed out to multiple processors working in tandem.

"Compared to single core Xeons, this will improve performance by a factor of 4.5 while doubling what dual core chips can do," Mr Gelsinger said. Desktop platform players such as IBM, Dell and HP are expected to offer discounts up to $3,50,000 to encourage their existing customers to make the transition to four core, he added.

Computation-intensive applications such as multimedia processing, graphic visualisation and large Internet search operations were cited as the biggest beneficiaries of the switch to multi core. And to beef up data management and security — two major concerns for enterprise computing administrators, Intel offered its recently launched vPro technology to create a new `system defence' against the baddies lurking on the Net.

To help enterprise customers assess the comparative energy efficiencies of rival offerings, Intel also announced its support for the evolving EEcoMark energy efficiency benchmark.

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