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Intel Discusses Future Plans

Posted by Zonk on from the they'll-stay-in-the-chip-business dept.

heeeraldo writes "Tom's Hardware (unfortunately known for their one-page-stretched-into-nine articles, and endless ads) attended an Intel presentation about their future processor plans. The unsurprising bit: the endless march of additional cores. The surprising part: they're already focusing on 45nm processes." From the article: "Last week, Intel held a series of presentations at its Ronler Acres campus in Hillsboro, Oregon, whose facilities represent the main pillar of product design and manufacturing. These presentations included a short tour to the top-notch 65 nm production facility Fab D1D whose specifics Intel is currently replicating to other locations. The primary purpose of this show obviously was to convince around 80 analysts and journalists of the substantial health of Intel's 65 nm fabrication leadership, which is outputting new processors in high volume for launching new Pentium 4 6x1, Pentium D 900 and Core branded (known as Yonah) processors in early 2006."

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  1. lame joke by tezbobobo · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    blah blah blah... Profit!!!

  2. New Summary by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "Slashdot (unfortunately known for their unecessary commentary in article summaries . . . "

  3. How Intel Told Off The DCMA by trolleywobbles · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Now, ever since the early 1990s, the relationship between Intel and the DMCA has been a tad hazy. I mean, sure, we'll never really know what happened in 1992 with the whole MPAA/RIAA/DMCA scandal, but I think there's a few things we missed this time 'round. With Intel lately seeming a bit cozier than usual with the idea of Linux on the desktop, and the RIAA cracking down on movie theater security, it seems pretty plausible that Intel may even go so low as to implement anti-movie/music (yes, the MPAA is in on this too, methinks) piracy in their new machines.

    Will this spark more interest in AMD-powered machines in the casual consumer? This is where the DMCA comes into play. In late 2004, AMD CEO Hector Ruiz was spotted at a DMCA gala-banquet, obviously there for brownie points. Now, where does the RIAA come into play? Well, as previously stated, we all know about the 1992 scandal, and I'm a monkey's uncle if these two incidents aren't somewhat related.

    I'm a bit hazy on details at the moment, but I do know that Intel VP Dadi Perlmutter, at a Wednesday press conference, vaguely mentioned that "...it's much better to ally yourself with respectable organizations than with competeitors." If this whole shady octagon of government/industry relations is actually true, and was in fact what Perlmutter was talking about, I think we may know when Ruiz takes to the mic next February.

    Alex
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    Back in my day I had to write games in BASIC, on a 4.7Mhz computer with no hard disk and 128K of RAM. And I was grateful
    1. Re:How Intel Told Off The DCMA by grahammm · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      How do you implement anti-music/movie piracy at processor or chipset level? At that level surely music and movies are just bit patterns and data to be moved and processed. So how, at that level, do you distinguish between music/movies and any other data?

  4. Thanks for the corrections by trolleywobbles · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah, thanks for the corrections. I too saw the article, and I was just trying to remember the dates off the top of my head. I still can't wait to see how AMD will fare in the end of all this (if there is an end :P)

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    Back in my day I had to write games in BASIC, on a 4.7Mhz computer with no hard disk and 128K of RAM. And I was grateful
  5. Just look into Intel's history... by trolleywobbles · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    They have a history of being pretty convincing towards striking deals with other computer giants. Microsoft, anyone? Still, I understand where you're coming from. Component-wise, Intel only makes the processors. But, in their years of smooth talking the fatcat software (AHEM! M$) companies and manufacturers, they've come to have a say in how their computers are made. Hell, if it isn't enough that they make the PROCESSORS for all x86 platform PCs, they're also pretty buddy-buddy with Dell, Gateway, and DRM-nazis Micro$oft. I'm not taling about anti-piracy processors here. I'm talking about anti-piracy computers. Now, I'm no hardware specialist, but wouldn't it be easy to cripple CD burners and USB ports when coupled with M$? I mean, the MPAA is always researching new ways to make the music ripped off their CDs more and more traceable. The RIAA now require that trackers be put in promo DVDs...

    The possibilities are endless. Again, AMD, who have always been the underdog (kind of like Linux in the early days), may be the way to go from here. Only time will tell...

    Alex
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    Back in my day I had to write games in BASIC, on a 4.7Mhz computer with no hard disk and 128K of RAM. And I was grateful
  6. Hmmm... Shady Intel.com Business by trolleywobbles · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    According to the Intel website

    "What is Wireless LAN Networking?

    A Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) is a flexible data communications system that can either replace or extend a wired LAN to provide added functionality. A traditional, wired local area network (LAN) sends packets of data from one piece of equipment to another across cables or wires. A wireless local area network (WLAN) relies instead upon radio waves to transfer data. Data is superimposed onto a radio wave through a process called modulation, and this carrier wave then acts as the transmission medium, taking the place of a wire."

    Seem familiar to anyone?

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    Back in my day I had to write games in BASIC, on a 4.7Mhz computer with no hard disk and 128K of RAM. And I was grateful
  7. c\u8 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    resulted in the !exemplif1ed by and the Bazaar be a lot slower