Intel sheds light on 2005 desktop strategy
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DECEMBER 07, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Intel Corp.&#39;s products for the digital home and digital office in 2005 will give consumers and IT managers more capabilities than just raw performance, and the company plans to highlight those products as it did with
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Hot G5 chip requires some serious effort to avoid overheating in all-in-one desktop design.
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Intel plans to launch its Core 2 Quad processor in January, targeting high-end desktop PCs in an effort to stay ahead of rival AMD.
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Over the last year, Intel has changed its approach to the processor market and now wants to develop features for specific products, such as desktops, notebooks and handhelds, to make those devices easier to use and more secure.
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Steering into the mainstream Just how much is Intel planning to charge for its revamped Core 2 Duo desktop processors, due Q3? Not as much as you might expect, it would seem, if the latest information coming from motherboard-maker moles is to be believed.â¦
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Intel has overhauled the basic building block of the information age, paving the way for faster and more energy-efficient processors.
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AMD used the Fall Processor Forum to provide more details about its dual-core Opteron architecture which is scheduled to be released by mid of 2005.
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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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(InfoWorld) - Dell Inc. has stepped away from long-time supplier Intel Corp., launching one desktop that spurns the chipmaker's vPro business bundle and two others that use processors from chipmaking competitor Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD). Dell will still build its new Dimension E520 and XPS 210 desktop PCs with a choice of Intel's Pentium D or Core 2 Duo processors, the company said Tuesday. But for the first time, Dell will offer a choice of AMD's Athlon and Sempron chips in the new Dimension E521 and C521 models. For its new OptiPlex 745 business desktop, Dell said it developed its own bundle of business-friendly technologies instead of using Intel's vPro platform. Intel has seen strong sales in recent years for bundles of software and hardware such as its Centrino package for wireless notebook PCs. The company launched vPro in September as an effort to extend that strategy to business desktops. The company did not rule out the chance that it might add Intel's bundle to future desktops, but said vPro had to mature first. "We'll continue to work with Intel to help them refine the technology," said Dell's chief technology officer, Kevin Kettler. He spoke during the company's annual Technology Day meeting in New York. "There's still work to be done to drive that technology as a fundamental, strong value for our end customers." He compared the current vPro bundle to early iterations of hardware-based security in Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chips. "Dell was a slow adopter of TPM, and that's not because we didn't know about them or forgot to ask about them. There are some cases where we've ultimately used a technology but waited for it to mature a little bit before adopting it," Kettler said. Dell competitors Hewlett-Packard Co. and Gateway Inc. both launched vPro-enabled desktops last week, prompting some analysts to ask why Dell was lagging despite its close relationship to Intel. The answer is that Dell was assembling its own business bundle. The company's OptiPlex 745 boosts security and eases IT management while reducing power draw. Those are the same selling points as vPro, and the Dell system even uses similar components, like Intel's new Core 2 Duo processor and a TPM security chip. The difference is that Dell chooses and integrates the remaining pieces, retaining more control over the final product. In October, Dell will add its own Client Manager module to the system, allowing IT managers to remotely boot and troubleshoot thousands of client systems from a single site. Intel does that trick with its Active Management Technology (AMT). Likewise, Dell chose its own partner for security and password protection, using Wave Systems Corp.'s Embassy Trust Suite. Dell sells the OptiPlex 745 with a Core 2 Duo E6300 processor for US$899. The XPS 210 costs $1,190 for a premium entertainment package. The Dimension E520 and E521 will go on sale Wednesday for $719 and $329, both with Microsoft Corp.'s Windows XP Media Center OS, dual-core processors and multimedia options. The Dimension C521 will cost $359 but take up just half the space compared to the E520 and E521. In another announcement Tuesday, Dell is extending its relationship with EMC Corp., adding another five years to their partnership in selling storage products such as the Dell/EMC AX100 and CX3 UltraScale networked storage systems. Together, the two companies have sold 34,000 networked storage systems to 10,000 customers since founding their alliance in 2001.
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Intel has showcased the next two generations of its notebook platforms, and revealed how it intends to extend battery life in the future.
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At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco yesterday, Intel President Paul Otellini provided further details of the chip giantâs plans to bring multicore processors to servers and desktop PCs, starting with a dual-core server chip in the second half
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Companies plan tools for improving high-end audio for PCs with Intel inside.
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Intel Corp.&#39;s dual-core strategy for mobile processors became a little clearer this week at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, but questions remain
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Intel (Quote, Chart) released a new suite of developers&#39; tools it hopes will increase the amount of people using its 64-bit technology.
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Processor and chipset plan made public Desktop Roadmap AMD yesterday spilled the beans on its processor plans for the next two years, at a stroke confirming much of the info that has leaked out of the company and onto the web this year. On the desktop, the future is HyperTransport 3 and DDR 3. Chipsets will not shift to DirectX 10 until late 2007.â¦
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(InfoWorld) - Predictions that growing demand for notebook PCs would result in a corresponding slowdown in demand for desktops haven't come to pass, Intel's top executive in Asia said. "Pretty much all of our forecasts have understated mobile [growth] and have also suggested that at some point desktop [growth] will flatten out or even start to decline," said John Antone, vice president and general manager of Intel Asia-Pacific, in a telephone interview. "The good news is that mobile continues to grow a little bit faster than we forecast and desktop has not contracted," Antone said. Intel, the largest provider of microprocessors used in PCs, saw its finances buoyed byÂ growing demand for PCs. On Tuesday, the company said its second-quarter revenue was $8.7 billion, up 8 percent over the same period. Second-quarterÂ profit rose 44 percentÂ over the same period last year, to $1.3 billion. Intel doesn't break out its revenue by specific product type, but does provide a breakdown by business unit. For example, Intel's Mobility Group, which makes chips for notebooks, saw microprocessor sales rise from almost $2 billion during the second quarter of 2006 to nearly $2.4 billion during the second quarter of 2007. The strong growth in mobile processor sales was largely due to the launch of Santa Rosa, an upgraded version of Intel's Centrino chip package. Intel's desktop processor sales are harder to determine, as they are spread across different business groups. But Intel said desktop processor shipments were up during the second quarter, despite generating less revenue as a result of a price war with Advanced Micro DevicesÂ (AMD) that hit prices for low. "Desktop unit demand came in higher than seasonal with strength across the board while revenue was lower on a year-over-year basis," said Paul Otellini, Intel's president and CEO, during a conference call with investors. Predictions that desktop PC sales would decline as notebook shipments grow underestimated the demand from emerging markets. While desktop shipments in the U.S. and Western Europe have indeed declined, the market for desktop PCs has shifted to emerging countries, where such systems continue to be in high demand, Antone said. "That frontier of where computing is getting to continues to push forward, and so the overall total unit volume for desktops has continued to be slightly up. It hasn't contracted on a worldwide basis yet," he said. Â
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The latest road map change involves two of AMD's quad-core chips for desktops, and will result in the company focusing on triple-core chips and energy-efficient quad-cores in the first quarter.