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Intel plans to release next-generation Xeon server processors based on the Westmere microarchitecture in the next three months, the company said on Thursday. Intel plans to refresh its line of Xeon server chips as it ramps up chip production to the 32-nanometer process, said Paul Otellini, Intel’s CEO, during a financial earnings call. Intel last [...]

Intel will focus on its next generation of smaller and faster chips at a conference next month as it prepares to ship new chips for systems in 2010. Intel plans to shed more light on the Westmere architecture at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF), which will be held Sept. 22-24 in San Francisco. The [...]

Electronics shops in Taipei’s well-known Guang Hua computer market are perhaps the first retail outlets to offer Intel’s latest Lynnfield microprocessors. Lynnfield chips are desktop microprocessors based on Intel’s Nehalem chip architecture. They carry four processing cores each and have been branded Core i5 and Core i7 for world markets. The processors were supposed [...]

The Core i5-570 processor will run at 2.66GHz and include 8MB of cache, according to FadFusion. The chip, targeted at mainstream desktops, is priced at US$233. The processor belongs to the new Core i5 line of processors, which are rumored to launch next month. Intel already offers quad-core Core i7 chips for [...]

Intel had to hustle to catch up with competitors in developing chips for mobile devices like smartphones, but the effort led to the development of the highly successful Atom chip, a company executive said on Wednesday. Today, the Atom chip is being used in most netbooks, which are low-cost devices characterized by small [...]

Intel dropped prices of some quad-core desktop processors on Sunday as it gets ready to launch processors based on the new Nehalem chip architecture. The price cuts come ahead of Intel’s plans to launch new quad-core chips code-named Lynnfield later this year, perhaps as early as September. Lynnfield chips are based on Intel’s [...]

Stronger PC demand from consumers in China and Southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia, gave Intel’s Asian business a boost during the second quarter, the company said Wednesday. ”It reflects the strength in Asia relative to the rest of the world, particularly China and Southeast Asia. Both of them look pretty good in terms of [...]

Intel appears ready to deliver, starting next month, new server, laptop and desktop processors based on its new microarchitecture, which offers improved performance. The new chips will be based on the Nehalem microarchitecture, which cuts down on bottlenecks that plague its current chips. Nehalem chips are also able to execute more tasks [...]