Intel Develops Processor Similar to MacBook Air Chip
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Intel has shrunk a processor that will be incorporated into new ultrathin laptops, possibly creating competition for the chip in the MacBook Air laptop.
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(InfoWorld) - Intel plans to show ultramobile PC devices based on its upcoming Menlow chip platform running AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) and the Ubuntu Linux distribution at the Intel Developer Forum on Wednesday. The demonstrations will offer a clearer view of what Menlow devices may look like and the capabilities they will offer when released. Due to hit the market in early 2008, Menlow is based on the dual-core Silverthorne processor and single-chip Poulsbo chipset. Intel is betting this package will spur demand for small, portable computers with long battery life and wireless connectivity. It hopes to see many of these devices run Linux instead of Windows, and Anand Chandrasekher, senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Ultra Mobility Group, is scheduled to be joined on stage by Mark Shuttleworth, the CEO and founder of Canonical, to show a device running on an alpha version of Ubuntu Mobile, a Linux distribution designed for ultraportable PCs. Chandrasekher also plans to demonstrate a Menlow-based device running Adobe Systems' AIR, a runtime environment for Web applications that function like desktop applications and work on a range of operating systems. AIR applications can be written using HTML, Flash, and AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML). As part of the AIR demonstration, Chandrasekher is expected to show a device running the Adobe Media Player, an AIR application that can download and play "premium content," Intel said.
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Both Lenovo and Fujitsu have designs coming soon that will use the same chip Apple asked Intel to build for the MacBook Air, according to sources familiar with their plans.
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(InfoWorld) - What will they put in notebook PCs next? At Intel's recent Developer Forum conference in Beijing, the company revealed it's working on quad-core processing to go. Set for release in 2008, the quad-core mobile processor is aimed at high-level gaming and mobile computers, where users will trade battery life for more performance. While the most demanding users (including gamers and those doing video editing) always want more processing power, this chip won't appear in standard business notebooks for some time. "You'll see it at the high end, but I don't see it running so fast into the mainstream because I don't believe there will be enough threaded applications that will justify the trade-offs," says Mooly Eden, vice president and general manager of Intel's mobile platform group. (Multithreaded applications allow several parts of software code to be executed simultaneously, taking advantage of multiple processing cores.) The quad-core mobile chip will likely differ in some way from Intel's current desktop and server quad-core chips, which strap together two dual-core dies inside a single-chip package. Meanwhile, the next version of Intel's Centrino notebook platform, code-named Santa Rosa, hit the market last month. Compared with Centrino, Santa Rosa offers several improvements, including dynamic acceleration, which raises the clock speed of one processor core above the guaranteed frequency level when the other core has powered down. This raises the performance of the remaining core while keeping the processor operating within the thermal limits envisioned by Intel engineers. This differentiates Dynamic Acceleration from overclocking, where users raise the frequency of a processor beyond the intended level.ADVERTISEMENTIBM Information On Demand 2006Industrial Industry Leaders, please join us at IBM's premier information management global event, IBM Information On Demand 2006, October 15-20, Anaheim, CA. More IBM business and technical solutions content in one place than ever before! Select from  over 800 sessions. Register today!
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Intel is on track to introduce work-sharing dual-core processors across all its product lines by the end of next year. The technology is part of a strategy shift at Intel away from processor speed and toward performance.
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A new computer chip developed by Intel promises to perform calculations as quickly an entire data center, while consuming as much energy as a light bulb. By the Associated Press.
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The MacBook Air is a stunner, no doubt, but it's going to be up against stiff challenges from PC notebook makers. Here are a few of the top ones.
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Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. are revving up for what they see as the next big step in the evolution of x86 processorsâthe introduction of dual processing cores.
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Company outlines plans for Yonah notebook processor, demonstrates desktop chip.
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Chip maker plans for smaller, faster, less power-hungry processors.
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Intel develops a new chip that roughly doubles the number of transistors on a chip.
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Intel updated its MacBook Pro line of laptops Tuesday, giving the computers slightly faster processors, more memory, and better graphics capabilities across the board.
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By Subashini Selvaratnam  INTEL Corp is working on a new 45-nanometre (nm) transistor technology which will boost the processing speeds in personal computers (PCs), laptops and servers.
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How about an embedded processor that&#39;s designed to deliver a quantum leap in performance and system bandwidth while keeping power in check?
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Intel is readying a line of consumer electronics chips based on the IA-32 architecture, the design underlying the vast majority of Intel&#39;s desktop, notebook and server processors, said Louis Burns, co-general manger of the Desktop Platforms Group at Intel
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Apple Computer Inc.  on  Wednesday said its entire line of iMac computers would feature  Intel Core 2 Duo processors, speeding up the performance of the  personal computers.
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Intel&#39;s Santa Rosa has landed in Cupertino. On Tuesday, Apple announced an updated line of MacBook Pro notebooks powered by the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors. The Cupertino, California-based company is the latest to use Intel&#39;s newest mobile platform, also known by its prerelease codename of Santa Rosa.