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Quality Issues Delay a Chip From Intel
By LAURIE J. FLYNN
Published: October 25, 2005
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 24 - Intel, the largest computer chip maker, said
on Monday that it would postpone volume production of a new Itanium
processor for network servers because of problems with the quality of
the product.
The server chip, which is being developed under the code name
Montecito, was scheduled for release in early 2006, the company said,
but will now be shipped in "mid-2006." Intel would not provide details.
The delay amounts to something of a black eye for Intel, as it seeks
to maintain its lead in server chips over Advanced Micro Devices.
Jonathan Eunice, an analyst at Illuminata, a market research company,
said, "The real impact here is it gives A.M.D. a longer window to
attack."
An Intel spokesman, William E. Giles, said the company still expected
Montecito to offer twice the performance of the current version.
Mr. Giles said that some additional work was required "to meet
production-level quality standards before we ramp the chip into
volume production."
The company said the delay in Montecito would push back release of
its successor, called Montvale, to 2007, from 2006. A third iteration
of the chip, Tukwila, will be delayed to 2008, from 2007.
The changes came as something of a surprise because Intel announced
two weeks ago that it was stepping up delivery of another server
chip, the Xeon DP, its first server chip that places two processing
engines on a single core.
In trading Monday, shares of Intel declined 5 cents, to close at $23.10.
The company, based in Santa Clara, Calif., also said it was canceling
a planned version of the microprocessor used in the coming Xeon MP
chip set, code-named Whitefield, and would replace it with a chip
with better performance, named Tigerton. It is scheduled to be
released in 2007.
Intel promotes dual-core and much more
Intel Developer Forum Special
By: Vanessa Ho
IT World Canada (30 Sep 2005)
Intel Corp. has pronounced 2006 as the year of dual-core.
At the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco, the chip maker
announced it would offer three new dual-core products – for servers,
desktops and notebooks – in the latter half of next year. A dual-core
chip is a single chip with two distinct CPUs that process
simultaneously. Everyday tasks can take advantage of this technology.
For instance, dual-core enables routine tasks – such as e-mail checks
and software updates – to run in the background without slowing down
primary tasks and applications. Each of Intel's new dual-core
microprocessors: Woodcrest (servers), Conroe (desktops) and Merom
(laptops) are expected to increase performance up to five times while
reducing power.
“We need to think about delivering performance against a new metric,”
said Paul Otellini, Intel president and CEO, in his opening keynote.
And that new metric, he said, is performance per watt. Multi-core
processors deliver performance without the power penalties that
characterize the GHz approach, Otellini said.
Boosting performance while reducing power was a common theme at the
IDF. By the end of this decade, Otellini hopes to take the power
envelope down on its products from five watts to half a watt.
As well, Otellini said from now until the end of 2006, Intel will
ship more than 60 million dual-core processors. And that's not the
half of it. Intel won't stop at dual-core but has projects for quad-
core and even double digit cores, the CEO said.
Multi-core technology, he said, will lead to a "significant increase
in performance and efficiency and significant decrease in energy
consumption and energy bills for users.”
Another highlight of the conference was Intel's unveiling the latest
iteration of its Centrino notebook technology (designated "Napa")
which offers better power management, radio performance and graphics
while decreasing power consumption and reducing the size of the
notebook by 20 per cent.
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