Intel chip boffins in litho brainstorm
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Let's gets pixelated Intel R&amp;D Day Your digital camera is more powerful than you think. Using the basic concepts of digital photography, Intel researchers are reinventing the art of silicon lithography â the technique used to etch circuit patterns onto PC microprocessors.â¦
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, 8/30/2004. With 90 nanometer chips now on the market, the race for the next node - 65nm -- is now underway. Intel is on track for initial production of chips based on 65-nanometer process
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Intel Corp, the world&#39;s largest  chipmaker, is on the verge of making its biggest push yet into  mobile consumer electronics, seeking to replicate its success  in mobile personal devices, as well as personal computers long  before that.
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(InfoWorld) - Following their march from standard processors to dual-core and quad-core designs in 2006, Intel researchers have built an 80-core chip that performs more than a teraflops (trillions of floating point operations per second) while using less electricity than a modern desktop PC chip. First described by Intel executivesÂ at a September trade show, the chip fits 80 cores onto a 275-square millimeter, fingernail-size chip and draws only 62 watts of power -- less than many modern desktop chips. The company has no plans to bring this "teraflops research chip" to market, but is using it to test new technologies such as high-bandwidth interconnects, energy management techniques, and a tile design method to build multicore chips, said Jerry Bautista, director of Intel's tera-scale research program. He spoke in a conference call with reporters on Friday before presenting technical details of the research at the ISSCC (Integrated Solid State Circuits Conference) trade show in San Francisco. Intel engineers are also using the chip to explore new forms of tera-scale computing, in which future users could process terabytes of data on their desktops to perform real-time speech recognition, multimedia data mining, photo-realistic gaming and artificial intelligence. Until now, that degree of computing performance has been available only to scientists and academics using machines like ASCI Red, the teraflops supercomputer built by Intel and its partners in 1996 for U.S. government researchers at Sandia National Labs, near Albuquerque, New Mexico. That system handled a comparable amount of computing as the new chip, but demanded an enormous 500 kilowatts of power and 500 kilowatts of cooling to run its nearly 10,000 Pentium Pro chips. Shrunk onto a single chip, that power would allow average consumers to use their PCs in new ways. They could use improved search functions on the vast amounts of digital media stored on home desktops, searching large photo archives for specific attributes such as all the shots where a certain person is smiling, or where that person is posing with a friend, Bautista said. Running at 3.16GHz, the new chip achieves 1.01 teraflops of computation -- an efficiency of 16 gigaflops per watt. It can run even faster, but loses efficiency at higher speeds, performing at 1.63 teraflops at 5.1 GHz and 1.81 teraflops at 5.7 GHz. The processor saves power by shunting idle cores into sleep mode, then instantly turning them on as they're needed. Each modular tile has its own router built alongside the core, creating a "network on a chip." Despite using such an efficient grid, the researchers found they could actually hurt performance by adding too many cores. Performance scaled up directly from two cores to four, eight and 16. But they found that computing performance began to drop with 32 and 64 cores. "If we simply added more than 16 cores, we would get diminishing returns, because the threads and data traffic would not be used properly, so the cores get in the way of each other. It's like having too many cooks in the kitchen," said Bautista. To solve the problem on the new chip, they used a hardware-based thread scheduler and faster on-chip memory caches, optimizing the way data flows from memory into each core. To improve the design, Intel researchers plan to add a layer of "3D stacked memory" under the chip to minimize the time and power required to feed the cores with data. Next, they will create a mega-chip that uses general purpose cores instead of the floating-point units used in the current design.
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Intel Corp. President Paul Otellini demonstrated new chips due out next year that simultaneously run tasks such as burning CDs and playing video games as he sought to allay concerns about product delays.
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Intel Developer Forum this week will zero in on upcoming chips. Areas for longer-term growth aren't quite so clear.
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Fresh PCI Express too IDF Like a psychiatric patient experiencing a breakthrough, Intel has opened up in a big way, allowing third parties to plug into its processor architectures on two new fronts. Most immediately, Xilinx and Altera will start crafting FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays) that connect to the front side bus on Intel's server chips. Later, more partners will be able to provide a performance boost for Intel systems via an extension to PCI Express.â¦
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Semiconductor chips that can manage a good bit of their own upkeep are moving closer to reality.
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Some assembly required Intel is punting a new modular server kit that's based on standardized parts for system builders and OEMs who cater to small and mid-sized businesses.â¦
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Intel today launched its latest mobile Pentium chip designed for use in high-end desktop replacement laptops. The Pentium 4M 548 runs at 3.33GHz with 1MB Level 2 cache, and is built around Intel&#39;s latest 90nanometre technology.
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Intel ha presentato il Pentium 4 a 3,8 GHz denominato anche 570J, basato su tecnologia di processo a 90 nanometri, 1 MB di cache di secondo livello (L2), un front-side bus a 800 MHz Ã¨ munito di sistema per la protezione della memoria Execute Disable Bit
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Intel Corp , the world's  largest chipmaker, will be able to make microprocessors with  features as small as 32 nanometers within two years, its chief  executive said on Tuesday.
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Intel engineers are developing a motherboard based on one of its chips for an OLPC laptop.
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The new NAND chip design will increase throughput up to 5X
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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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By Jordan Robertson Associated Press  SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Intel Corp. has designed a computer chip that promises to perform calculations as quickly as an entire data center -- while consuming as much energy as a light bulb.
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Chipmaker announces new chipset and reference design for consumer devices and PCs.