{"id":549319,"date":"2006-06-27T07:39:34","date_gmt":"2006-06-27T07:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/549319-intel-takes-on-rival-with-new-chip.html"},"modified":"2006-06-27T07:39:34","modified_gmt":"2006-06-27T07:39:34","slug":"intel-takes-on-rival-with-new-chip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/549319-intel-takes-on-rival-with-new-chip.html","title":{"rendered":"Intel takes on rival with new chip"},"content":{"rendered":"

The world’s largest chipmaker yesterday released its dual-core Xeon Processor 5100 Series, formerly codenamed Woodcrest, which is targeted at the server market, where AMD has made the biggest inroads into its business. Dell, the biggest PC maker which last month said it would for the first time begin buying AMD processors for some of its servers, announced immediate availability of the new Intel chip in its server range.<\/font> <\/p>\n

Intel is rolling out microprocessors based on its new "Core" architecture over three months. Following Woodcrest, a chip for desktop computers codenamed Conroe will appear in July and a notebook computer chip, "Merom", is due in August.<\/font> <\/p>\n

The designs differ markedly from Intel’s last generation, the Pentium 4, introduced in 2000, followed by its high-end Itanium and Xeon processors in 2001. They were built for speed, but Intel is now emphasising efficiency, or performance per watt, as the heat generated by chips and the power consumed has made the energy costs of running them more expensive than the actual hardware.<\/font> <\/p>\n

The two cores provide two processors, or brains, on one chip to increase the computer’s multitasking capabilities, while the chip’s 64-bit vastly increases the amount of memory a processor can use.<\/font> <\/p>\n

Glen Yeung, analyst at Citigroup, said he expected Intel to produce a series of benchmarks at a presentation later in the day that showed Woodcrest outperforming AMD’s equivalent Opteron processor on a performance-per-watt basis.<\/font> <\/p>\n

Intel’s market share of the dominant x86 processor in server chips was 78 per cent in the first quarter, according to Mercury Research, down from 95 per cent two years earlier.<\/font> <\/p>\n

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Intel has launched its opening gambit in a triple-play to win back market share from its biggest rival, Advanced Micro Devices, introducing its first new-architecture chip in five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}