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Intel Launching Penryn Dual and Quad Core Processors

Intel Corporation (San Francisco) asserts that Penryn family of processors (45-nanometer) will be in production till the mid of the year 2007. The company has also decided to launch a 45-nm processor known as Nehalem which will be introduced in the market in the year 2008. While giving a statement before the press, Pat Gelsinger (General Manager and Senior vice president of Intel’s digital enterprise team) claims about the launch of the hardware.

Intel further declares that they are making fabulous designs which will have more than 15 45 nm hi-k product that will be developed by passing through various stages. They also have decided to plan the 2 fabs of 45 nm and will be introduced in the market by end of 2007. By year 2008, the company will invent 4 fabs of 45 nm.

Santa Clara (Intel Corporation, California) affirms that 6 Penryn processors involving a dual core mobile processor and quad and dual core desktop processors will be accessible beneath the brand name (Intel Core processor). The company further said that quad and dual core Penryn server processors will also be introduced under the brand name (Intel Xeon processor).

Gelsinger discloses some of its features of the processors and said that it is apart from an easy contraction of a 65 nm instrument. He declares that the discovery of 45 nm node is related to an elementary reformation of the transistor and is an excellent attempt of Intel connoisseurs named as Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore.

The technology of these processors provide 20 % quicker transistor swapping speed, roughly twice the budget of the transistor and lower leakage current than the 65 nm technology of the company. These processors which are on the production stage contain 16 threads and 8 cores. Therefore, their latest versions offers both multi-level shared cache and multi-threading at the same time.

Therefore, I hope when they will be introduced in the market, they will surely hit the market. The price range for this processor is not disclosed in the market till now.

Intel Stomps into Flash Memory

The first NAND flash memory product introduced by Intel known as the Z-U130 Value Solid State Drive is a stipulation for the other hardware retailers. Intel alleges about its outstanding features like it can write at a speed of about 20 MB/sec, can read at a rate of 28 MB/sec and has the capacity of 1 – 8 GB which is considered to be smaller as compared to the products launched by SanDisk in the market. Intel Corporation has made a good entry into the market with its amazing hardware product. This company has given a direct challenge to its competitors (Samsung Corporation) which is considered as the largest manufacturer of gadgets like USB flash drives and NAND flash memory in all over the world.

Intel anticipates its disk to be utilized from different computers and servers to gaming consoles. The entry of Intel Corporation into the hardware industry is 4 times smaller in power than the topmost SanDisk Company hardware products. SanDisk has also recently declared its remarkable product (32 GB solid-state disk). On the other hand, Intel Corporation has also publicized great consistency numbers by declaring that its Z-U130 product contains a standard mean time of five million hours than SanDisk which contains only 2 million hours in case of breakdown.

Intel also declares that their compact disk has a rapid storage option that can run through fixed application operations like operating systems, set boot code and normally accessed libraries or common PC. Product of Intel also provides money-making and high performance storage along with other benefits above detachable Universal Serial Bus storage devices or hard disk drives.

Samsung has also just launched its first hybrid drive which utilizes NAND flash memory in addition to spiraling disk. Their hybrid drive provides the capacities of 120 GB, 80 GB and 160 GB in addition to flash memory which can store up to 4 GB for storing data. Intel’s compact disk drives offers embedded code storage, quick boot times, low-power storage options and quick access of data for routers, industrial and gaming applications, servers and various value PCs.

The technology of Intel Corporation provides various advantages above conventional hard disk drives involving trustworthiness and improved performance as declared by the Randy Wilhelm (General Manager and Vice President of Intel’s NAND products team). Z-U130 compact disk drive is the first product introduced by the Intel Corporation. It is available in 1, 2, 4 and 8 GB densities.

This company further asserts that it has signed the contract with the notebook, server and PC producers to embrace Z-U130 product. The company’s product will also be utilized in Intel’s other products for point of sale terminals and routers.