Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini introduced
the new 65 nano-meter (nm) microprocessor, saying
that it was designed to bring increased power per
watt and that it was expected to deliver an
improvement of three to five times the power of
previous products.
"We will deliver 'factor of 10' breakthroughs to
a variety of platforms that can reduce energy
consumption tenfold or deliver 10 times the
performance of today's products," Otellini said.
Production will begin by the end of this year
with the first products entering the market in
the second half 2006.
"We expect to ship 60 million dual-core
processors in 2006," Otellini said. "By the third
quarter of 2006, we expect our computer
processing unit shipment based on 65nm to surpass
90nm shipments," he added.
The technology will be applied to laptops, for
which it is code-named Merom, desktop computers
(code-named Conroe) and server platforms
(Woodcrest). Merom's architecture, the company
said, is based on the same dual-core processor
(code-named Yona) used in its Pentium-M laptops,
which was also developed in Israel.
While Yona was developed in partnership with one
of Intel's California centers, the 65nm
microprocessor product is the first to be
developed in its entirety, both the architecture
and strategy, by Intel engineers at its plants in
Haifa and Yakum.
Intel operates four development centers in Israel
in Haifa, Yakum, Jerusalem and Petah Tikva, and
two production facilities in Jerusalem and Kiryat
Gat, employing 5,400 people. In addition to
investing $666m. to refurbish the Kiryat Gat
plant, the company plans to establish a new $4
billion manufacturing facility next to the
factory.
Intel Corporation recently presented its next
generation micro-architecture, a multi-core
processor, which was completely developed at its
facilities in Haifa, Israel. It is expected
that the device will be used in all Intel-based
computers from next year, according to company
officials.