Intel has unveiled a trio of new technologies at the International Solid State Circuits Conference in San Francisco: the Silverthorne mobile processor; the Tukwila Itanium chip — which has a record 2 billion transistors; and a method for doubling the capacity of phase-change products. It is generally agreed that Silverthorne is an attempt to target the lowest end of the market for computing devices, and there has been speculation that Intel will try to get Apple to use it instead of the ARM processors currently powering its iPhones.
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Intel Debuts Slew of New Technologies
Posted by: Richard Adhikari February 4, 2008 02:02 PMIntel has unveiled a trio of new technologies at the International Solid State Circuits Conference in San Francisco: the Silverthorne mobile processor; the Tukwila Itanium chip — which has a record 2 billion transistors; and a method for doubling the capacity of phase-change products. It is generally agreed that Silverthorne is an attempt to target the lowest end of the market for computing devices, and there has been speculation that Intel will try to get Apple to use it instead of the ARM processors currently powering its iPhones.