The Hindu Business Line : Intel outlines processor road map

Hyderabad June 14 Chip major Intel Corporation today outlined the processor road map to developers here that provide insight into how the semiconductor industry is moving from single-core to multi-core and drifting away from 65 nanometer to 45 and then on to 32 nanometer technologies by 2010.

These new breed of processors provide faster computing while also bringing in higher energy savings.

With nearly 90 per cent of total personal computer shipments now moving on to dual-core processors, that is two brains on one chip, there are indications that almost all of the PCs would drift to dual-core processors. The Director, Worldwide Sales and Business Development, Intel Corporation, Mr Phil De La Zerda, said these processors require the capability to handle tasks simultaneously. This meant a close interface with the developer community offering them the latest developer tools to build software.

New products

Announcing the release of Intel Compilers and Math Kernal Library, at a press conference here today, Mr Zerda said these tools and library help developers build new software and technology.

The Director of Solutions Engineering Group, Intel Technology India, Mr Narendra Bhandari, said that the Tech Forum here aims to help India's software developers understand and harness the power of multi-core parallelism, which will enable them to efficiently create high performance applications.

The new Intel products help developers to work on different platforms including Intel Core 2 Duo and Intel Core 2 Quad and Microsoft Vista operating system, Novell Suse, Linux Enterprise, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora Core.

45&32 nanometer tech

Explaining the way forward, Mr Bhandari said that the chips that got shipped in 2006 were based on 65-nanometer technology and 2007 will witness the roll out of Penryn (45 nano), Nehelem in 2008 (45 nano), West Mere (32 nanometer) by 2009 and Sandy Bridge 2010 (32 nanometer).

He said that by 2010 laptops are poised to outpace desktop PC shipments and these call for processors with faster computing power that have the capability to bring higher energy savings.

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