Intel previews more energy-efficient chips

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: DENI CONNOR ON SERVERS
09/01/05
Today's focus: Intel previews more energy-efficient chips

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* Intel gives glimpse of Woodcrest chip
* Links related to Servers
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Today's focus: Intel previews more energy-efficient chips

By Deni Connor

Intel CEO and President Paul Otellini outlined Intel's new
course at the Intel Developer Forum last week in San Francisco.

Saying that the company's new course is "performance per watt"
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlservers6290> Otellini said that
future Intel-based machines will be smaller, sleeker and more
energy-efficient, coming in at 80 watts. Intel's present Pentium
4 with HyperThreading technology currently operates at 103
watts.

The basis for the new lower-power server processor is codenamed
Woodcrest. It's a 65-namometer dual-core processor. Intel
estimates that by the third quarter of 2006, sales of
65-nanometer processors will surpass those of present
90-nanometer processors.

Otellini also showed off Conroe and Merom, two processors for
desktops and mobile devices, respectively. Conroe processors
would consume 65 watts of power; Merom will consume an ultra-low
5 watts.

Woodcrest is expected to be introduced in the second half of
2006, leading Intel into a market where performance and heat
dissipation need to be balanced.

Woodcrest combines the NetBurst and Pentium M architectures of
the Pentium 4 with a new architecture, which Otellini would not
detail. Simply referring to it as "thermal design power," he
said that using this technology would lead to processors that
can run as much as 10 times as fast as present processors.

Woodcrest will extend Intel's legacy 64-bit compatibility,
virtualization and management features.

Otellini demoed a prototype of Woodcrest running Windows and
Linux.

He said that in the next 18 months Intel would ship as many as
60 million dual-core processors.

Intel's introduction of these new power-saving chips perhaps
trumps AMD's challenge to Intel
<http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/082305-amd-intel.html?rl>
for a "dual-core duel." That advertisement, which appeared in
the San Francisco Chronicle, the Wall Street Journal and USA
Today, called for Intel to face-off with AMD over the
performance of their two competing processors.

The top 5: Today's most-read stories

1. Google dives deeper into networking
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2. 2005 salary survey
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3. VoIP rollouts generate heat, power concerns
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4. Cisco aims to simplify switch mgmt.
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5. VoIP season about to heat up
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Today's most-forwarded story:

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<http://www.networkworld.com/nlservers6292>

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To contact: Deni Connor

Deni Connor is a Senior Editor at Network World covering
storage, Unix, Novell, Macintosh and IT in Healthcare. You can
reach her at <mailto:dconnor@nww.com>.
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network experts. Read how network executives are keeping a firm
footing on an ever-shifting product landscape. Learn about
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commentaries from leading experts on storage strategies for
smaller businesses.
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