• Intel completed the development of its next-generation 45nm process technology which is scheduled for production in the second half of 2007, ramping to three 300mm factories in 2008. Intel also produced samples of Penryn, the company’s first 45nm processor, and booted the Windows* Vista*, Mac OS X*, Windows* XP and Linux operating systems using first silicon.Penryn will sport 3MB cache per core and will support SSE4, a new instructions set that never been as close as Altivec.
• The company shipped more than 70 million 65nm microprocessors during 2006 and ramped dual-core technology to greater than 50 percent of fourth-quarter shipments.
• Intel launched the industry’s first quad-core microprocessors for volume servers and PCs. The company is now shipping nine different quad-core processors for servers, workstations and PCs, including a new Intel® Core™2 Quad processor for mainstream PCs.
• Apple* announced a new Apple TV product that uses a low-power Intel processor and chipset to help stream premium music, TV shows, movies and photos from personal computers to widescreen TVs.
• Intel demonstrated its first mobile WiMAX silicon which is being designed into solutions that will give future laptops and mobile devices broadband access over both WiFi and WiMAX networks, automatically seeking the best available connections.
• Intel began volume shipments of the industry’s first 65nm NOR flash chips featuring multilevel cell technology that stores two bits of data in each transistor. The new flash chip provides cell phone designers with a gigabit of storage for data such as megapixel-quality photos and MPEG-4 video clips.
This is to our knowledge the first time that Intel take advantage of its collaboration with Apple to mention Cupertino-branded products. Things change and evolve.
