Intel searching for next big thing

One expects that the manufacturer of integrated circuits the 'event first of S of the year, the forum of realizer of Intel (inking film), draws several thousand lotisseurs of material, associated of Intel and forms of mediums with San Francisco of Tuesday at Thursday. Intel annually hold usually two IDFs in San Francisco, but moved the event of spring in Beijing this year to accentuate the company the 's raising the operation of China and to cut the costs of significant events of the USA of the possession two.

The senior officer Paul Otellini will obtain the things active Tuesday morning, and him the 's envisaged to view Intel beforehand 'generation nearest of S Penryn of the processors, which will employ a news, smaller manufacturing technology 45nm (nanometer) (due at the end of this year). Later in week, one expects that other executives of Intel accentuate the company the 'interest growing of S for the basic mobile and devices power of consumer electronics which could help Intel to quickly face a market of maturation of PC.

Intel is on a bread this year, after one dull period it where the company lost the significant market share and the credibility of design with AMD. AMD 'piece of S Opteron were the processor of the choice in the line of the market of waiter upwards until the middle of last year, when Intel presented pieces of duel-core based on a new design and then combined these pieces in a package to make processors of quadruple-core. Those of the pieces of quadruple-core, combined with a persistent price war, had AMD on the defensive for a good part of 2007.

Barcelona, AMD 'processor of quadruple-core of S which launched last week, will help the smaller manufacturer of integrated circuits to regain a certain dash, but him 's not that blow AMD of blow of thanks to desired unloading when it started to develop Barcelona. Intel hopes to regain a decisive advance with the processors of Penryn, which are awaited to arrive in November.

Thus, intend to understand many information on the pieces of Penryn, such as the characteristics, the power and projections of reference mark. Intel also want the canvasser probable his prowess of manufacture while obtaining on the level 45nm well before one expects that AMD makes thus in mid 2008. Smaller manufacturing technology makes it possible to line more transistors on each piece and also makes it possible at Intel to cut more pieces of each silicon gaufrette of 300mm than it produces, which lowers the overall costs to realize each piece and makes the accountants happy.

New directions
But while Intel is naturally very interested with supporting its position in its basic activities, it 's also testing find next the great source of growth for the company, which takes it in some directions apart from its historical expertise.

Intel had hopelessly tried this whole decade to find businesses bearable apart from market of PC. Forwardings of PC always develop at relatively regular intervals, particularly on the markets apart from the USA and of Western Europe, but they aren 't rising at a rate/rhythm which makes Wall Street thoughtless. Intel spent most of the preceding part of the decade speaking about the convergence on standby of the communications and calculating it, but the company isn 't really taking part in this convergence apart from its businesses of PC of core.

Intel 'success principal of S on before communications was Wi-Fi. The company convinced of the million people that its mark of Centrino means wireless technology, though it represents really a package of the pieces, including the processor and a piece of Wi-Fi. But the doesn of Intel the 'sale of T all pieces of Wi-Fi which aren 't attached to its mobile processors of duet of core 2 - meaning its efforts of communications depend completely on the health of the market of PC. Otherwise, Intel has to show little for its festival of expenditure of turn-off-tea-century on several companies of piece of communications.

Thus, him 's now seeking next the large thing in two places: basic pieces power for the mobile devices of Internet (also known under the name of UMPCs) and WiMax, a wireless technology with a range much larger than Wi-Fi.

In plans 2008 of Intel to present a new processor x86, called Silverthorne , that the company slated for the mobile devices of Internet (MIDS). Intel thinks that Silverthorne will make it possible SEMI lotisseurs to propose more irresistible designs which could help to establish the bond between the smartphones and the GCV.

The title of the a genuine mobile device is always much upwards for encavateurs, and Intel is strongly interested to take care to him 's inside some device rolls up to gain to the top this contest. At a point he hoped to take part in the market of portable with a combination of a basic application processor power and of a cellular piece, but he released last year his division of portable after its cellular pieces were released in a grand total of two cellphones available in the trade.

Now, Intel 's concentrated on this idea of a mobile minicomputer which 's more powerful than a cellphone, but more portable than a book. Several various SEMI designs should be on posting with inking film this week, and Intel will also probably have designs of the preliminary draft based on Silverthorne to show with far with the participants.

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The executives will also probably pass a quantity right of time supporting Intel 'work of S on the standard in evolution of WiMax. Intel sees WiMax like manner of bringing connections Internet at high speed to the houses without having to count on the physical cables, but him the 's an ascending battle against cellular industry ind�logeable. Sprint agreed to deploy WiMax in the USA, but them 's far from free space if this carrier with the capacity to deliver on this promise. Intel also supports a starting called Clearwire which 's establishing a network of WiMax.

Interesting, there gained 't is a presentation by Eric Kim, chief of Intel 'the group at the house of S DIGITAL. A representative of Intel said that there will be advertisements related to Intel 'the products at the house of technology of S sprinkled in all with other speeches, as the company also tries to obtain his pieces inside a new generation of the boxes of place-tops and GCV medium-friendly. But, with its decision to put more weight behind its marks of processor of core, Intel seems of-emphasising its mark of PC of house-entertainment Viiv.

With Intel 'the clear roadmaps of S during the future and a year relatively without problem, he with the abundance of the reasons to be trustful, said McCarron senior, principal analyst with the search for Mercury. They the 'VE come by far since they had their exits there are two or three years, McCarron said.