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While most industry insiders who deal closely with Intel on the SOI (insulating layer overlying silicon) technology, recently came news, Intel is planning to acquire SOI wafer biggest supplier of SOITEC, as well as AMD’s most important supplier of wafer. Although it is unable to confirm whether the news is true, but it is worth noting is, IDF in San Francisco in last year’s Conference, Intel has shown based on SOI chip electrical connection technology.

Soitec to UNIBOND AMD offers a number of advanced thin film SOI substrate solution, used in the production of AMD Opteron and AMD Athlon 64 series processors, therefore, Soitec fell hand of Intel, will have a huge impact for AMD wafer supply.

IBM, AMD, Sony, Microsoft in products used in SOI technology, Intel join is bound to make the competition more intense.

Source: MyDrivers

United over more than 40 server vendors announced Intel Blade Server standards. reportedly, the standard is based on open specifications, today in Beijing, Chinese Taipei and the United States published at the same time in the three places.
The blade open specifications are organized by the SSI Server platforms (The Server Systems Infrastructure) and more than 185 members published in the trade, covering computing, communications daughter card and the system management interface design specifications.

At the same time, the blade open specifications for the server manufacturer, chassis, and level design and manufacturing management software compatible and interoperable server part provides reference designs, and simplifies product development process, reduce product development costs.

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Chicago (IL) – the Intel Montevina Platform today demonstrates to the public the latest, it is a consolidated WiMax/WiFi mobile chips programme, the development code name Echo Peak.
On the IDF held in Chicago, they show the two Echo Peak equipment. laptops and mobile devices with WiMax capabilities is expected to be in 2008.

Sony Vaio UX280P UMPC, integrating WiMax chip

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News source: AnandTech
Penryn is a Intel45 Nano processor code, contains the quad-core Yorkfield and Wolfdale dual core. 3.00GHz/FSB 1333MHz QX9650 frequencies released today with 12MB L2 cache copy at $999. QX9650 is still LGA-775 is still two dual-core spliced together, but as a result of the 45 nanometer technology, and so smaller, consume smaller, but higher performance. Manufacturing costs are lower. Intel also will be released after 2 months 3.20GHz QX9770.

Here is the comparison test QX9650 and QX6850:

Taiwan motherboard makers, Intel plans to launch for the first quarter of 2008 the ultimate gamers dual-processor eight-core platform, code-named Skulltrail.
First Skulltrail platform processor Core 2 Extreme QX9755, per thousand price: us $ 1499, breaking Intel desktop processor for many years the highest price, but how and how many players can afford it!?

It is understood that the Intel Skulltrail platform was borrowed from the Xeon processors in SMP technology, camera plate moved on to the desktop platform, 5,400 chipset with Intel Server-class, can support dual-FSB and up to 1600MHz FSB speeds, matching successfully reached the two quad-core processor can simultaneously handle 8 Threading 8 core platform.

In addition Intel 5,400 chipset supports 4 group PCI-Express graphical interface, and get a NVIDIA SLI and ATI CrossFire authorized, is now the only male player platform with common graphics double, but also support Quad Graphics technology, with four Zhang Xianka a parallel operation, are now strong player platform.

But it was disappointing that, Intel 5,400 chipset is for the server market, Skulltrail platform is also on the need to use the more expensive FBDIMM memory, the maximum supported FBDIMM 800 speeds, up to 8GB.

Processors interface is same as Server Socket 771, so it only under Core 2 Extreme designed specifically for Skulltrail QX9755 processor, Socket 775-free ask in General.

Now note that the Core 2 Extreme processor speed is 3.2GHz QX9755, quad-core design maximum TDP of 136W, built-in 12MB L2 Cache, 1600MHz FSB speed, price us $ per thousand price $1499, breaking Intel desktop processors priced high, but the two Core 2 Extreme QX9755 charge is up to us $ $3000, how many players can afford.

In addition to meet the Intel X48 chipset market, Intel will also launch a Socket 775 Core 2 Extreme processor interface QX9750, specifications and QX9755 in much the same, but was unable to support reach dual-CPU 8 core Skulltrail platform, price us $ per thousand price for $1399. (This article source: HARDSPELL/hard network)

Intel on Monday said it had introduced a series of low cost mobile chip, will be used on the economical notebooks and Tablet PCs. the series name is “Celeron-m” (mobile Centrino), using a circuit design is the same as and the Mobile Intel Pentium, Celeron m, however they have no moving torrent some performance, beginning about cheaper than Mobile Pentium 35%.

PC manufacturers such as HP and Motion Computing is ready on the Web site to sell products with Celeron m. Intel actively into the portable computing world last year, launching a Celeron (Centrino) brand, in support of the brand, Intel spent 300 million dollars of marketing expenses. Intel will launch this quarter and more powerful Mobile Pentium chip, there is a advanced chip capable of high-speed wireless communications.

NEC announced on January 5, 64bit Server "Express5800/1320Xd" in SAP in a two-tier SD BenchMark test for 4,030-instant user, which is ending now with PC server record. 　　Past record is created by the company in October 2003, when achieving 3,850 while users. Test machine CPU to 32 work frequencies of 1.5GHz, 6MB, the level 3 cache Itanium 2. memory into the company’s support SAN (storage area network) disk-array "iStorage S2000 series ". test used in the operating system is Windows Server 2003,Datacenter Edition, the database software using SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition(64bit). Double-layer SD (Sales and Distribution) sales management software for online trading class, included in Germany SAP integration backbone business (ERP) software "SAP R/3". adopting the SD BenchMark has become representative performance evaluation indexes of the server for the SAP System. In tests, in addition to repeatedly access the systems at action, will also measure can be maintained and sustained an average of 2 seconds the number of users to respond. so-called double layer refers to 1 servers application servers and database servers to play two features of the structure.

January 13, sources said, although Intel has recently announced its move of the consumer electronics market has caused widespread concern in the industry, but the company’s processor business reached new heights in quietly. some analysts said that this year will be the chip industry is growing very rapidly in an industry. Intel, the world’s largest chip maker, in its forthcoming reports of 2003-2004 quarter results, analysts expect the company to deliver 859 billion dollars in revenue. to date, Intel top is a quarter of the third quarter of 2000, when the company’s revenues reached $ 8.73 billion.

Analysts pointed out that since “Centrino” laptop PC processor developed rapidly, Enterprise entered a new upgrade cycle, and some low end server chip success, Intel last quarter’s revenue is expected to surpass even the third quarter of 2000.
“Needham” company semiconductor analyst Daniel Scovel, referring to the server chip stated: “this is a huge source of profit, most servers are at least two processors, and the prices of these processors is almost five to 10 times the normal PC processor. ”
Of course, for Intel, processor for ordinary PC is not “useless” laptop “Centrino” chips it sells very well.
In New York on Wall Street, Intel’s good performance also eased fears for the communications industry. Intel up 1 time shares in year times the and making it company stock become “Dow 30 industrial stock average price indices” most eye-catching performance in stock.
News source: Sohu IT

On January 14 message said, market investigation company IDC recently pointed out that, due to faced AMD and other competition opponent of powerful pressure, used Intel “Itanium” chip of server of sales will will than original is expected of to low. the company is expected, 2007 used “Itanium” chip of processor of sales will reached 7.5 billion dollars, than the company previously is expected of 8.7 billion dollars to low. course this is from which long-term view of trend, for recent of situation,, IDC actually improves on the “Itanium” server sales expectations.

Industry insiders had expected, Intel’s “Itanium” processor will be launched in the year the company “x86″ processor swept the desktop market as sweeping the server market, the IDC degraded “Itanium” Server medium-and long-term sales forecast for the chip is not a good news. In the past few years, IDC has repeatedly reduced “Itanium” server sales expectations. Also was in 2000 when the IDC by 2004 “Itanium” server sales will reach us $ 28 billion, now, this seems like an impossible goal.
Vice President of research at IDC Server Veron Turner in the United States on a conference call to be held on Tuesday, the company reduced “Itanium” server sales forecast largely because “with Intel ‘ Itanium ‘ framework for gradually taking hold, it would be x86-64 by AMD architecture challenges. ”
AMD by adopting “x86-64″ technologies (now called AMD64) in processor design joined the 64 bit features. AMD64 processors have 64-bit features such as such as bulk memory addressing, and can easily run specifically for “x86″ schema written in the application. But Intel’s “Itanium” processor is different, it runs specifically for “x86″ Framework applications written acted very bad.

Intel EPG industry presentations were held yesterday in San Francisco, at the meeting, Intel released its its server line processor development blueprint. Intel said in the next 2 years, under Intel Server series processor, will use many new technologies, such as PCI Express, dual-core, multi-core, cache recovery data center management and control, and so on.

According to the latest blueprint announced Intel, Intel Itanium2 processors code-named Madison 9M will be introduced during the year, operating frequency greater than 1.5GH. In 2005, introduced integrated physical kernel pair of Montecito processors, 0.09 micron manufacturing process and built up to 24MB of cache. After 2005, Intel will launch and the former Alpha team jointly developed the Tukwila processor, built-in multiple physical cores.

On the IA-32 platform, Intel plans to release during the year, code-named Nocona Xeon processor, support 800MHz FSB, operating frequency greater than 3.2GHz, integrated 1MB level caching, matching Lindenhurst chipset products, Tumwater, is expected to support PCI Express, and in 2005, Intel will introduce integrated physical kernel pair of Tulsa, Jayhawk processors.