Intel in pursuit of Moore's law for stronger security, lower costs

Bangalore, Oct 10 (UNI) World IT major Intel is on a relentless pursuit of Moore's law to enable faster, more reliable and secure network and computing technologies that could boast a future 'system defence' technology, its Managing Director (Digital Enterprise Group) Patrick Gelsigner said today.

Delivering the keynote address at Intel Developer Forum here, he said the company's forthcoming Quad-Core Xeon processor 5300 series, a four-in-one processor, that was 50 per cent faster than the existing series, would be available later this year. The product was based on the revolutionary Intel Core micro-architecture and was compatible with existing platforms.

''The industry is going through the most profound shift in decades, moving into an era where performance and energy efficiency are critical in all market segments and all aspects of computing.

The solution begins with the transistor and extends to the chip and platform levels,'' he said.

Mr Gelsigner said the company had refreshed the entire lineup of dual-core products, including over 30 new enterprise-class processors, both for business PCs and servers. Among these Intel Itanium was designed for high-end Reduced Instruction Set Computing space.

Intel also had extended Xeon processor line targetting the lower-end '1-way' servers typically used in home, office and small businesses with introduction of Dual Core Xeon 3000 series which dramatically improved server performance and power efficiency. Its latest ultra-dense Dual Core Intel Xeon Processor 5148 featured a low thermal design point of only 40 W, he said.

For business PCs, he disclosed that Intel cPro technology, a third generation Active Management technology that would extend the platform's manageability and security capabilities, would be available in 2007.

Intel Developer Forum, now into its tenth year, was a premier global technology forum for hardware and software developers to confer on Intel-based platforms, technologies and solutions and the new usage models they enable.

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