Intel News Update

Intel Board Elects Two New Directors ›
SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 19, 2009 – Intel Corporation today announced that John J. Donahoe, president and CEO of eBay Inc., and Frank D. Yeary, vice chancellor of the University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley), have been elected to serve on Intel's board of directors.

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About Intel

Intel pushes the boundaries of innovation so our work can make people's lives more exciting, fulfilling, and manageable. And our work never stops. We never stop looking for the next leap ahead—in technology, education, culture, manufacturing, and social responsibility. And we never stop striving to deliver solutions with greater benefits for everyone.

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Intel is driven to create bold advancements in technology that enhance people’s lives. Explore how Intel is cultivating the spirit of innovation and promoting the concept of sustainability in our operations and in communities worldwide.

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Discover the transforming role of Intel silicon technology in a changing world.

The Intel Museum in Santa Clara, California celebrates 40 years of Intel history and innovation through more than 30 interactive exhibits, educational programs, docent-led tours, and family fun.

Company Information

At Intel, we believe in being open to big ideas and inspired innovation that will change the world. This idea of openness is at the very core of who we are as a company. Stay connected to the latest news and opportunities from Intel, and learn more about our values and vision for the company.

Technology Leadership

It began with the Intel® microprocessor, the invention that sparked a revolution. Intel's history of developing groundbreaking technology continues today. We attract the most brilliant minds in science to push the boundaries of innovation and further our position as the world's leader in semiconductor technology. Our passion is to create technology that changes the world.

Carry Small, Live Large Research Program

Carry Small, Live Large is a vision of the mobile future. It is a vision of computing where our experiences—while we work, play and simply go about our daily routines—are greatly amplified and enriched. Through powerful, small form factor mobile devices that have new ways of interacting with the environment around them, offer new ways for users to interact with the device and provide new ways of experiencing internet based data and services, our daily personal entertainment, interactions with others and the environment around us will soon be greatly enhanced.

Tera-scale Computing Research Program

The Intel® Tera-scale Computing Research Program is a worldwide effort to advance computing technology for the next decade. By scaling multi-core architectures to 10s to 100s of cores and embracing a shift to parallel programming, we aim to improve performance, increase energy-efficiency, and make future applications more compelling and immersive.

Energy-Efficient Systems Architecture - Intel Platform Research

As part of the Intel platform vision for architectural innovation, Intel is researching an Energy-Efficient System Architecture (EESA). EESA is a collection of technologies and architectural improvements that together will result in dramatically higher performance per watt for systems across market segments from small form factor to high performance servers. This research is concentrated on improving the power profile of Intel components, taking a systems approach to designing power efficient platforms, and collaborating with industry partners and customers to develop broader energy-efficient system solutions.

Intel and 802.11

Helping Define 802.11n and other Wireless LAN Standards

IEEE 802.11 wireless local area networks

Intel is working with standards leaders on ratifying 802.11n, a new faster version of the 802.11 standard. Ratification is expected in December 2009 and publication in early 2010. Products are already on the market adhering to the Wi-Fi Alliance*’s 802.11n draft 2.0 certification, demonstrating the wellspring of support for this upcoming standard.

Standards and Initiatives

Because our global infrastructure relies on the stability and consistent interoperability between devices, Intel invests significant resources in standards and initiatives while collaborating with global industry leaders to pioneer technological advances that both establish and maintain the highest level of standards-based innovation.

Powering Business with Intel Technologies

Business notebooks, desktops, and servers with Intel® technology redefine "streamlined" enabling great leaps in hardware-assisted security, manageability, and energy-efficient performance. Designed to solve some of the most unsolvable IT issues, Intel technologies help reduce deskside visits while enabling lower costs and increased productivity across the board.

Virtualization

Increasing manageability, security, and flexibility in IT environments, virtualization technologies like hardware-assisted Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT)¹ combined with software-based virtualization solutions provide maximum system utilization by consolidating multiple environments into a single server or PC. By abstracting the software away from the underlying hardware, a world of new usage models opens up that reduce costs, increase management efficiency, strengthen security, while making your computing infrastructure more resilient in the event of a disaster.

Intel® vPro™ Technology

Notebook and desktop PCs with Intel® vPro™ technology enable IT to take advantage of hardware-assisted security and manageability capabilities that enhance their ability to maintain, manage, and protect their business PCs. And with the latest IT management consoles from Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) with native Intel vPro technology support, IT can now take advantage of enhanced features to manage notebooks over a wired or corporate wireless network- or even outside the corporate firewall through a wired LAN connection.

Intel® Centrino® 2 Processor Technology

With new laptop PCs based on Intel® Centrino® 2 processor technology for the home, or Intel® Centrino® 2 with vPro™ technology for business, you'll experience a new breakthrough in mobile performance, enabled longer battery life, the future of wireless now with 802.11n standard, and more, right at your fingertips.‡ Delivering performance gains of up to 50%¹ enabled by a minimum 3MB Smart Cache and 1066MHz Front Side Bus, these laptops are equipped to handle everything from robust business to masterful multimedia and everything in between. And with Intel Centrino 2 processor technology, you'll make quick work of the toughest computing tasks like HD video encoding—up to 90% faster², so you can accomplish more without the wait.

WiMAX Technology

WiMAX is the next-generation of wireless technology designed to enable pervasive, high-speed mobile Internet access to the widest array of devices including notebook PCs, handsets, smartphones, and consumer electronics such as gaming devices, cameras, camcorders, music players, and more. As the fourth generation (4G) of wireless technology, WiMAX delivers low-cost, open networks and is the first all IP mobile Internet solution enabling efficient and scalable networks for data, video, and voice. As a major driver in the support and development of WiMAX, Intel has designed embedded WiMAX solutions for a variety of mobile devices supporting the future of high-speed broadband on-the-go.

Intel® Graphics Technology

Intel® Graphics Technology provides a visually stunning experience optimized for Blu-ray* and HD video with Windows Vista* support¹ and comes standard with many notebooks, desktop computers and motherboards—without the need to add an external and costly graphics card.

Intel® G43 Express Chipset

The Intel® G43 Express Chipset, when combined with the Intel® Core™2 processor family, delivers new technologies and innovative capabilities for digital home consumers. With major advancements in video, graphics, responsiveness and scalability, the Intel G43 Express Chipset allows your PC to be the center of home computing, communications, and entertainment.

Intel® G41 Express Chipset

The Intel® G41 Express Chipset, when combined with the Intel® Core™2 processor family, delivers new technologies and innovative capabilities for digital home consumers. With major advancements in video, graphics, responsiveness and scalability, the Intel® G41 Express Chipset enables scalability and performance for everyday computing.

Intel® G35 Express Chipset

The Intel® G35 Express Chipset continues the Intel® chipset legacy and extends it to new levels with purpose-built capabilities designed specifically to address the key needs of the enthusiast home user.

Intel® G33 Express Chipset

Desktop PC platforms based on the Intel® G33 Express Chipset, combined with either the Intel® Core™2 Duo processor or Intel® Core™2 Quad processor, deliver new technologies and innovating capabilities for digital home consumers.

Intel® Core™ i7-965 processor Extreme Edition

Desktop PC platforms based on the Intel® G33 Express Chipset, combined with either the Intel® Core™2 Duo processor or Intel® Core™2 Quad processor, deliver new technologies and innovating capabilities for digital home consumers.

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Intel® Core™ i7-965 processor Extreme Edition

The highest performing desktop processor on the planet.¹ Shatter the limits of desktop computing with the intelligent performance of the Intel® Core™ i7-965 processor Extreme Edition, the smartest way to blast through highly-threaded games and applications.

Intel® Core™ i7 processor Extreme Edition

Conquer the world of extreme gaming with the fastest processor on the planet: the Intel® Core™ i7 processor Extreme Edition.¹ With faster, intelligent multi-core technology that responds to your workload, it delivers an incredible breakthrough in gaming performance.

Intel® Core™ i7 processor

With faster, intelligent multi-core technology that automatically applies processing power where it's needed most, new Intel® Core™ i7 processors deliver an incredible breakthrough in PC performance. They're the best desktop processors on the planet.¹

Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor

For extreme computing. Enjoy revolutionary levels of performance enabling vivid, high-definition experiences and multi-tasking responsiveness from state-of-the-art Intel dual-core and quad-core technologies.

Intel® Core™2 Quad processor Intel® Core™2 Quad processor

Multimedia enthusiasts, prepare to enthuse. Bring quad-core performance to your desktop with the Intel® Core™2 Quad processor. It's the ideal engine for highly threaded entertainment applications and highly productive multitasking.

Intel® Core™2 Duo processor

The power to perform. With power-optimized enabled dual-core technology and exceptional energy efficiency, the Intel® Core™2 Duo processor excels running the most intense applications.

Intel® Pentium® processor E5200

With Intel® dual-core technology at speeds up to 2.50 GHz.

The Intel® Pentium® processor delivers great desktop performance, low power enhancements, and multitasking for everyday computing.

Intel® Celeron® processor 450 The Intel Celeron processor 450 is now available at speeds up to 2.20 GHz.

Intel® Celeron® processor The Intel® Celeron® processor-based desktop platforms offer a robust computing experience together with the outstanding quality and reliability you expect from Intel.

Intel® Itanium® processor 9000 sequence

• arge-scale databases, data warehouses, ERP, business intelligence, and data analytics
• Scales up to 512 processors and an incredible full Petabyte (1024TB) of RAM
• Ultimate scalable performance, flexibility, and reliability

Intel Xeon processor 3000 sequence

• Great for e-mail and file/print services
• Enhanced Intel® Core™ microarchitecture for exception performance and power efficiency
• High-density entry-level configurations and high-performance computing

Intel Xeon processor 5000 sequence

• Designed for robust high-performance computing
• Ideal for e-mail, database, and Web servers
• Outstanding price/performance and broad 64-bit industry support
• Available high-density, low-power options

Intel® Xeon® processor 7400 series

• Extending today's lead in virtualization performance with built-in hardware assisted features and breakthrough gains in performance and energy efficiency²
• Built for data-demanding enterprise applications with up to 6 cores and a large shared 16MB L3 cache per processor, enabling more transactions per server
• More headroom, improved reliability, and the highest scalability available for large scale server consolidation and business-critical virtualization

Intel® Server Processors

Intel® server processors are the ideal platform for virtualization and data-intensive business applications. Powering a range of multi-core, 64-bit servers¹, Intel server processors enable you to optimize computing environments and maximize server utilization, while providing you with headroom for growth.

Processors

Intel® desktop processors deliver superb computing power, performance, and reliability at home and at work. Our notebook processors let you work and play in places you never thought possible. Our server and workstation processors provide enhanced scalability, power, and performance for robust multi-processing environments. And our embedded and communications processors combine outstanding performance with scalable, power-efficient processing for a wide range of embedded applications.

Intel Technology

Technology
Taking giant leaps forward at the silicon level, Intel is developing small, fast, and energy-efficient technologies to help create the next revolutionary step in mobile, desktop, and data center computing—as well as technologies that power the engine of change for our entire industry.

Intel Extreme Series THE ALL YOU WANT

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Intel® Desktop Board DX58SO
The Intel® Desktop Board DX58SO is designed to unleash the power of the all new Intel® Core™ i7 processors.

Intel Board For ENTERTAINMENT

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Intel® Desktop Board DG45FC
Built in the mini-ITX form factor, Intel® Desktop Board DG45FC is a small but powerful desktop board

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Intel® Desktop Board DQ45EK
Intel® Desktop Board DQ45EK in mini-ITX form factor supports multi-tasking power of the latest Intel® Core™ 2 processors as well as Intel® vPRO™ technology.

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Intel® Desktop Board DG41TY
The Intel Desktop Board DG41TY is built to cater to digital home entertainment and home application users. Reliable and affordable, this versatile board will meet a variety of digital needs.