Intel to launch energy efficient micro processors, servers

Intel is set to launch power-optimised micro-architecture processors and servers for future digital home, enterprise, mobile computing and emerging market platforms.

'Merom' is aimed at the mobile phone market, while 'Conroe' is meant for desktops. The third energy efficient product to roll out of the Intel stable will be the 'Woodcrest' server. All the three products will hit the markets in the coming days.

Delivering a lecture on 'The dawn of a new era, energy efficient computing', organised by the Indian Semiconductor Association (ISA) as part of the 'Technology Leadership Series' on Thursday, Intel Corporation fellow (Digital Enterprise Group) Ajay V Bhatt explained that the new generation products are aimed at reducing the dependence on energy in seeking to compute faster.

"It is a popular notion that additional energy is required to enhance performance of computers and processors. But we worked against these fundamental limits to produce energy efficient processors and servers. Eventually, these products will be available for the home PC market as well," he added.

Bhatt, who is also the Intel director (Platform Components and Interconnects Architecture), said the energy efficient products incorporated intelligent power capability, advanced digital media boost and smart access memory.

Conroe, a dual-core processor, can reduce power consumption by 40 per cent while delivering over 40 per cent improvements in computing performance. Woodcrest will reduce power consumption by 35 per cent while delivering more than 80 per cent improvement in computing performance.

"The industry trend is to start with the platform and advance to the architecture stage. But we have addressed the energy efficiency at the platform level itself. This has given us tremendous advantage in evolving these products. The processors for notebook, desktop and server platforms are designed on Intel's advanced 65-nanometer technology manufacturing process," he said.