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Intel updates laptop, desktop chip plans
Chip maker to release two dual-core laptop, desktop processors using 32-nm process
By Agam Shah
February 10, 2009 (IDG News Service) Intel Corp. on Tuesday accelerated plans to release two dual-core laptop and desktop processors, tweaking its road map as it juggles manufacturing efforts to cut costs.
The company will ship dual-core processors for mainstream laptops and desktops made using the 32-nanometer process, skipping plans to release similar chips manufactured using the 45-nm process. The chips will ship in the fourth quarter.
The road map update will quickly bring the latest technologies to laptop and desktop chips, company officials said during a press conference in San Francisco. Intel officials could not say when those chips would reach laptops and desktops.The 32-nm-process chips will be an upgrade over existing 45-nm chips that go into current desktops and laptops. The chips will be cheaper to manufacture, work faster and draw less power.
The early shift to the 32-nm process will reduce Intel's manufacturing cost, said Jack Gold, principal analyst at J.Gold Associates LLC.
The new chips could also bring excitement to a sore laptop market and provide users a reason to upgrade. For essentially the same cost, users will get a jump in performance with the latest technology Intel has to offer, Gold said.
The new dual-core laptop chips code-named Arrandale replace Nehalem-based Auburndale processors, Intel said. The company will also ship 32-nm dual-core desktop chips code-named Clarkdale, which will replace Nehalem-based Havendale chips.
Arrandale will boost graphics performance while drawing less power than Core 2 processors, said Stephen Smith, vice president and director of group operations at Intel. The new chips will also be more energy-efficient, which could improve laptop battery life.
The clock speeds will be similar to chips used in existing laptops, but offer better performance at a similar power envelope by running more threads via each core.
The new chips will be part of Westmere microarchitecture, which is a shrink of Intel's existing Nehalem microarchitecture. Nehalem, which is used in Intel's Core i7 desktop, integrates a memory controller and provides a faster pipe for the CPU to communicate with system components. It is considered a significant upgrade over Intel's earlier microarchitectures, as it cuts bottlenecks to improve system speed and performance-per-watt. Intel earlier said it would ship dual-core laptops and desktops built around Nehalem in the second half of 2009.
Demand for chips is shrinking, so Intel has to take a drastic step to improve demand for its products, Gold said.
With chip demand slowing, the returns on developing 45-nm laptop chips may also be minimal, Gold said. Intel's shift to the 32-nm process is smooth, which provides an incentive to quickly move to Westmere chips, he said.
"The optimum time to shift is when demand is down and risk is less," Gold said. Earlier on Tuesday, Intel CEO Paul Otellini said the company would spend $7 billion over the next two years to revamp manufacturing plants.
Intel is prioritizing its move to the new 32-nm process technology to lower chip-manufacturing costs and increase production. That will help the company make more chips at lower costs and add efficiencies to the production process, Intel officials said.
The new manufacturing process will also help create tiny integrated chips that can fit into devices like set-top boxes and TVs, Intel said during its fourth-quarter earnings call in January. That could help Intel enter new markets and add revenue opportunities.
Intel will begin producing chips with 32-nm circuitry in four fabs starting in late 2009. A nanometer equals about a billionth of a meter. In chip manufacturing, the figure refers to the denser features etched on the surface of chips. Chip manufacturers like Intel and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. are building smaller and smaller transistors into chips to perform quicker and draw less power.
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Latest Gadgets 2009 Secret Agent Pen Camcorder w/ Audio 2GB
You can put this secret agent pen camcorder into your shirt pocket,the pen cup or on the desk, no-one will ever notice as you secretly capture their every move.The built in flash stores the video until is ready to be downloaded to a computer via USB, and with 2GB of memory you'll get well over 5 hours of recording time. The colour video is encoded on the fly through a buffer system to MPEG 4 and if the battery runs low during a recording session the pen will ensure it writes the video from the buffer to flash before shutting down.
All video with audio that captured from Secret Agent Pen Camcorder make this the perfect tool for recording confessions, secret rendezvous or interviews. You can also use the device as a common flash drive to transport important files around safely. The pen itself is an attractive writing instrument with a gloss black finish on the main body, rubber grip and chrome detailing.
Hottest gadgets for 2009 revealed
After a year which saw the Wii Fit and Apple's iPod Touch go huge, what can tech fans expect in 2009? From next generation HDTV to big news in the world of mobile phones and video games galore. Technology reporter Dan Whitworth has a look at some of the things expected to make it big.
MOBILE PHONES
Two of the phones that are likely to do well on the High Street next year are T-Mobile's G1, or Google phone (already out), and Nokia's rival to the iPhone the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic (released late Jan/early Feb).
T-Mobile's G1 mobile phone, or Google phone, is out nowReviews for the Google phone have been mixed, with its style coming in for much of the criticism along with its weight - 158 grams.
Phrases like 'every day charging' and 'no flash video' will also alarm some tech fans.
But it does deliver when it comes to user interface with easy to use touch screen technology. There's a slide up screen to reveal a keyboard almost as big as the phone itself.
Being Google you'd expect its web browser to be as good as it is and, at the moment, all the applications for it from Android Marketplace are free compared to ones you have to pay for from Apple.
The marketplace works by helping developers get their applications in the hands of users by acting as an open distribution system.
As for the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic? With its sleek design and weighing in at almost a third less than the Google phone (109 grams) it's going to be a strong rival to the iPhone, even if Nokia doesn't want the comparison.
And makers say this is the phone that Nokia's Comes With Music service was born to be used on.
One touch of a button on the phone's home screen and you're browsing millions of tracks. Its 8 GB of memory means it'll be able to hold about 6,000 of them.
'BETTER THAN HDTV'
No sooner have tech fans embraced high-definition, flat-screen TVs that the next generation is already knocking at the door.
OLED TV is an energy saving, ultra-thin, super high-def TVOLED TV is an energy saving, ultra-thin, super high-def TV with screens just millimetres thick that provide crisper and brighter images.
It uses organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) to produce images so actually uses less energy than LCD TVs as they don't need a backlight to boost brightness.
Of course the quality you get out depends on what you put in - HD channels and Blu-ray DVDs are best but you'll notice a difference whatever source it uses.
One example is Sony's XEL-1.
At just 11 inches you don't get a lot for your £1,500-2,000, but there are plans for a larger version next year.
VIDEO GAMES
Available on the Xbox and PS3, Resident Evil 5 is due for release in March, four years after the last instalment.
Chris Redfield, from the original Resident Evil, returns with an arsenal of knives, pistols, machine guns and sniper rifles to keep the evil at bay.
For those interested in something a bit more old school Street Fighter IV is scheduled for release on 20 February.
Available on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC Capcom supremo Yoshi Ono expects it to be more straightforward and have a broader appeal that Street Fighter III.
He told gamestracker.com: "SF III kind of went back to the roots and got hard again. IV is easy.
"Maybe if there's an SFV we'll go back the other direction and be more hardcore again.
"It's kind of early to say. Looking at the pattern right now, that would make sense."
Twenty years after the last film Ghostbusters should be hitting the shops in June on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, PC, Wii and Nintendo DS.
The real Ghostbusters, Harold Ramis, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson and Bill Murray reunite to voice up their characters Spengler, Stantz, Zeddmore and Venkman.
The challenge is join the gang and rescue New York from its latest battle against ghosts and supernatural baddies.
You can put this secret agent pen camcorder into your shirt pocket,the pen cup or on the desk, no-one will ever notice as you secretly capture their every move.The built in flash stores the video until is ready to be downloaded to a computer via USB, and with 2GB of memory you'll get well over 5 hours of recording time. The colour video is encoded on the fly through a buffer system to MPEG 4 and if the battery runs low during a recording session the pen will ensure it writes the video from the buffer to flash before shutting down.
All video with audio that captured from Secret Agent Pen Camcorder make this the perfect tool for recording confessions, secret rendezvous or interviews. You can also use the device as a common flash drive to transport important files around safely. The pen itself is an attractive writing instrument with a gloss black finish on the main body, rubber grip and chrome detailing.
Hottest gadgets for 2009 revealed
After a year which saw the Wii Fit and Apple's iPod Touch go huge, what can tech fans expect in 2009? From next generation HDTV to big news in the world of mobile phones and video games galore. Technology reporter Dan Whitworth has a look at some of the things expected to make it big.
MOBILE PHONES
Two of the phones that are likely to do well on the High Street next year are T-Mobile's G1, or Google phone (already out), and Nokia's rival to the iPhone the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic (released late Jan/early Feb).
T-Mobile's G1 mobile phone, or Google phone, is out nowReviews for the Google phone have been mixed, with its style coming in for much of the criticism along with its weight - 158 grams.
Phrases like 'every day charging' and 'no flash video' will also alarm some tech fans.
But it does deliver when it comes to user interface with easy to use touch screen technology. There's a slide up screen to reveal a keyboard almost as big as the phone itself.
Being Google you'd expect its web browser to be as good as it is and, at the moment, all the applications for it from Android Marketplace are free compared to ones you have to pay for from Apple.
The marketplace works by helping developers get their applications in the hands of users by acting as an open distribution system.
As for the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic? With its sleek design and weighing in at almost a third less than the Google phone (109 grams) it's going to be a strong rival to the iPhone, even if Nokia doesn't want the comparison.
And makers say this is the phone that Nokia's Comes With Music service was born to be used on.
One touch of a button on the phone's home screen and you're browsing millions of tracks. Its 8 GB of memory means it'll be able to hold about 6,000 of them.
'BETTER THAN HDTV'
No sooner have tech fans embraced high-definition, flat-screen TVs that the next generation is already knocking at the door.
OLED TV is an energy saving, ultra-thin, super high-def TVOLED TV is an energy saving, ultra-thin, super high-def TV with screens just millimetres thick that provide crisper and brighter images.
It uses organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) to produce images so actually uses less energy than LCD TVs as they don't need a backlight to boost brightness.
Of course the quality you get out depends on what you put in - HD channels and Blu-ray DVDs are best but you'll notice a difference whatever source it uses.
One example is Sony's XEL-1.
At just 11 inches you don't get a lot for your £1,500-2,000, but there are plans for a larger version next year.
VIDEO GAMES
Available on the Xbox and PS3, Resident Evil 5 is due for release in March, four years after the last instalment.
Chris Redfield, from the original Resident Evil, returns with an arsenal of knives, pistols, machine guns and sniper rifles to keep the evil at bay.
For those interested in something a bit more old school Street Fighter IV is scheduled for release on 20 February.
Available on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC Capcom supremo Yoshi Ono expects it to be more straightforward and have a broader appeal that Street Fighter III.
He told gamestracker.com: "SF III kind of went back to the roots and got hard again. IV is easy.
"Maybe if there's an SFV we'll go back the other direction and be more hardcore again.
"It's kind of early to say. Looking at the pattern right now, that would make sense."
Twenty years after the last film Ghostbusters should be hitting the shops in June on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, PC, Wii and Nintendo DS.
The real Ghostbusters, Harold Ramis, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson and Bill Murray reunite to voice up their characters Spengler, Stantz, Zeddmore and Venkman.
The challenge is join the gang and rescue New York from its latest battle against ghosts and supernatural baddies.
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