Intel to throttle power by enhancing silicon
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Power consumption continues to climb, so Intel will reach into the bag of tricks to keep Moore's Law going.
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Intel Corp. is expected to release a faster version of its powerful but expensive Pentium 4 Extreme Edition processor on Monday alongside the introduction of a chipset that uses a faster front-side bus to connect the processor and the memory.
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Intel co-founder Gordon Moore&#39;s famous law will be re-examined again next week, as Intel shifts away from pure speed to the more efficient utilization of silicon.
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Powerful computer processor will be modified for mobile devices.
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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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Company will break its promise to deliver a speedier chip, shifts focus to dual-core designs. Intel has confirmed its near-term plans for its desktop processors before it reaches the multicore era.
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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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World leading microchip developer Intel says the Internet needs a radical overhaul to make itself more powerful. Intel&#39;s chief technology officer, Pat Gelsinger, notes that
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Researchers at IBM and AMD have improved a chip-making technology called strained silicon. Their announcement, of a new and unique strained silicon transistor technology, is aimed at improving processor performance and power efficiency.
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A chip the size of a fingernail and capable of more than a trillion calculations per second is unveiled by Intel.
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Intel has created a more powerful memory chip without increasing its size, wrong-footing warnings that the firm had hit its technical limits.
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Computers with AMD&#39;s Opteron processor will soon be able to take advantage of the same power management technology the company has already built into its laptop and desktop microchips.
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Contradicting fears that the semiconductor industry&#39;s pace of development is slowing, Intel Corp announced it has achieved a milestone in shrinking the size of transistors that will power its next-generation chips.
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(InfoWorld) - A startup chip company is introducing a power-efficient processor it has been developing for three years, just as the market clamors for energy efficiency. P.A. SemiÂ is offering a dual-core, 64-bit processor Monday that it claims uses only 5 watts to 13 watts of electricity running at 2GHz, making it 300 percent to 400 percent more power-efficient than comparable processors. P.A. Semi is making its PA6T-1682M PWRficient processor available to companies that will test it for possible use as an embedded processor in networking equipment for telecommunications, military or aerospace customers, said Dan Dobberpuhl, co-founder and chief executive officer. The chip is based on Power Architecture technology, which the company has licensed from IBM. P.A. Semi claims the new product has a better performance-per-watt rating than an IBM 670MP processor, an Athlon 64x2 processor from Advanced Micro Devices and the Core 2 Duo from Intel. But P.A. Semi won't be directly competing with AMD and Intel because it won't be selling into the server or personal computer markets with its initial product. P.A. Semi's performance measures were not independently verified. P.A. Semi has improved power efficiency through advanced dynamic power supply regulation, Dobberpuhl said. In older chip design, power coursed through the processor continuously. About 10 years ago, chip designers introduced dynamic power supply regulation in the processor block to start and stop the flow as needed, a process also called "clock gating." But P.A. Semi gets more granular, clock gating not at the block level, but at the registry level within a block. "That level of fine grain clock gating inside the block, no one else has really done," Dobberpuhl said. "In our chips we have more than 25,000 gated clocks; most chips that do [block level] clock gating have maybe a few hundred." Although the 1682 is targeted only at networking equipment, the company has plans to later introduce other members of the PWRfficient family, including single-core processors that could find a wider market in blade servers and some portable devices. But even just in networking equipment, the chips could be a big help in energy efficiency, said Richard Wawrzyniak, senior market analyst with Semico Research Corp. "For all the people who are concerned with their power budget, or they have run out of power budget, and they are trying to figure out some way to increase their performance, this makes a lot of sense," Wawrzyniak said. Dobberpuhl was previously a vice president at chip maker Broadcom, which acquired his company, SiByte, in 2000. He also spent 20 years at Digital Equipment Corp. developing microprocessor technology. Other co-founders and executives of P.A. Semi, based in Santa Clara, California, and founded in July 2003, worked with Dobberpuhl at Broadcom or SiByte. Engineering samples of the 1682M sell for $700 apiece while an evaluation kit carries a price tag of $8,500. Power efficient operation of servers and other computers has become a top concern of data-center managers because of rising energy costs. It has long been a focus of P.A. Semi and its embedded processor development. Said Dobberpuhl: "We were doing this before it was cool."
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New high-end dual-core Opterons will power servers.
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IBM (Quote, Chart) and AMD (Quote, Chart) have devised a new silicon transistor technology they claim will boost the speeds of single- and dual-core chips.
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Intel Corp. has designed a computer chip that promises to perform calculations as quickly an entire data center &#151; while consuming as much energy as a light bulb.