Intel hurries next-generation chips
Prince McLeanSpeaking at Intel Corp's Spring Analyst Meeting this week, chief executive Paul Otellini said the company will launch its new microarchitecture, which will include chips for notebooks, desktops and servers, beginning in June.
By the third quarter of this year, Intel will be making more chips with 65-nm geometry than 90 nm, the Intel boss explained. And by 2007, he said the company will build a 45-nm version of the Core chip family called Penryn.
The report goes on to say the chipmaker will upgrade its microarchitecture in a chip called Nehalem by 2008, and then move to 32-nm design by 2009 — shrinking that chip line into a design called Nehalem-C.
In 2010, the company will reportedly upgrade its microarchitecture once again for a future line of chips called Gesher.
One company expected to make extensive use of all three of Intel's new Core-based chips in its own designs is Apple.
it's widely believed that the Mac maker has selected Conroe — a chip Intel says is 40 percent faster than the Pentium D960 — to power its first line of Intel-based PowerMacs later this year.
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