Intel showcases future tech at IDF
The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker offered journalists a glimpse of upcoming tech initiatives including the company's vision of processors with up to 100 cores as well as its 2006/7 roadmap for desktop and mobile PCs.
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA--The Intel Developer Forum (IDF) has traditionally been a platform for chipmaker to share some of its tech initiatives with journalists and analysts from all over the world. This year's Spring event in San Francisco was no different. The chipmaker touched on several key topics including its Tera-Scale Computing Research Program, mobile and desktop platform strategies as well as new standards such as wireless USB and Unified Display Interface (UDI).
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Intel Core microarchitecture
Intel's chief technology officer Justin Rattner unveiled details of its next generation processor architecture on the opening day of this year's IDF. Called Intel Core microarchitecture, the new chip designs, which are based on the power-saving philosophy of the Pentium M processor, focus on energy efficiency rather than just on performance alone.
Enhanced features in the new microarchitecture include:
Intel Wide Dynamic Execution - Allows up to four instructions to be executed simultaneously in each processor core
Intel Intelligent Power Capability - This manages the power consumption of the processor by only turning on the required portions for executing specific instructions.
Intel Advanced Smart Cache - This improves the performance and efficiency in a multi-core system by sharing the processor's L2 cache between the two cores.
Intel Smart Memory Access - It uses a special set of algorithms to determine the data that's required and move it into the cache memory so that it's easily accessed.
Intel Advanced Digital Media Boost - A feature which improves performance (particularly for multimedia and graphics intensive applications) by executing all the SSE (Streaming SIMD Extensions) instructions in one cycle.
Intel announced that its next-generation processors such as Merom (for notebook), Conroe (for desktops) and Woodcrest (for servers) will be built based on the Core architecture. They are expected to be available as early as the third quarter of this year.
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