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Intel's Faster Chip - Penryn -
Made in Costa Rica
Intel on Monday introduced 16
microprocessors that are
expected to deliver
significantly more horsepower to
businesses that need an
across-the-board performance
boost for servers and to
consumers who play PC games or
enjoy editing and playing video.
The desktop and server
processors are the first built
with Intel's 45-nanometer
manufacturing process, which
delivers twice the transistor
density of previous chips built
on the company's 65-nm process.
The higher density translates
into 820 million transistors for
Intel quad-core processors.
Capable of processing 1 trillion
calculations a second, Intel's
latest chip, will revolutionize
computing, the fastest chip ever
made by Intel was possible with
Costa Rican ingenuity.
A team of 30 Costa Rican
engineers played role in
developing the fastest computer
chip ever that is now being
manufactured at the San Antonio
Belén plant. In total about
1,000 Intel employees -- in
Folsom, Santa Clara, Costa Rica
and Israel -- worked on the
latest computer microprocessor.
More transistors mean faster
performance, which Intel manages
to contain within the same power
envelope as previous products.
The latest processors,
code-named Penryn, will be sold
under the Xeon and Core 2
Extreme brands for servers and
high-end desktops, respectively.
The new processors offer Intel
business customers an
across-the-board performance
boost for server-side business
applications, Jim McGregor,
analyst for In-Stat, told
InformationWeek. "These new
products can really improve what
businesses have," McGregor said.
"They pretty much span the gamut
of performance."
Intel is likely to sell the
majority of the new products for
use in servers, but the
processors also will be useful
to people who work with video on
their PCs or workstations,
Richard Doherty, president of
market research firm
Envisioneering, said. The
computer industry as a whole is
selling an increasing number of
desktops and notebooks optimized
for video, and Intel is
gradually delivering the muscle
to turn today's jerky,
low-quality online video into
smooth-running pictures that
could someday become
high-quality, screen-size
images.
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Ericka Ocampo holds the Penryb chip made in Costa Rica. |
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