Intel to start New Year with new chip
Published: 14 Dec 2005 10:45 GMT
Intel will try to start 2006 off with a bang by releasing Yonah, a brand new notebook chip, and then follow with a push to move PCs into the living room.
Yonah, a dual-core notebook chip based on a new design, will be released in January, said Keith Kresslin, director of mobile platforms marketing at Intel. It is expected to provide around 68 percent better performance than current Intel notebook chips, which sport one processing core. Computers with Yonah will also be better than PCs today at running many applications at once, he said.
"You will be able to do a Skype voice call while playing video games," Kresslin said on Tuesday at a company presentation in San Francisco.
Laptops and small desktop computers featuring Yonah are also scheduled to come out at the same time as the chip.
The chipmaker hopes to reverse its recent fortunes with the plans for next year. In 2004, the company tripped over manufacturing glitches and cancelled products. In 2005, the product and production problems vanished, but Intel continued to lose market share to rival AMD.
The processor/chipset/Wi-Fi chip bundle in Yonah-based notebooks is expected to consume only 3W of power on average, less than the 4.2W average seen on current cutting-edge laptops. The power savings partly result from the chip's ability to complete tasks faster. However, Yonah also comes with new circuitry designed to cut power consumption.
Many Yonah notebooks will be smaller than their contemporary counterparts, Intel executives said. (Kresslin, however, did not say what the thermal ceiling, or TDP, is for Yonah, which could add some bulk and impact power consumption on some Yonah systems.)
The first quarter of 2006 should also see the debut of Viiv PCs, which contain several chips and software from Intel. These computers, which will be positioned as nerve centres for home entertainment, are designed to store music, record TV shows and serve up family photos and videos. By the second half of next year, they will also allow people to pass movies to handhelds even if the films have been protected with antipiracy software, Intel said.
The company also plans to test the Viiv PC extensively for compatibility with other devices, such as handhelds and LCD TVs, and with services for downloading content. These products and services will carry a label...
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