Intel will reveal details of its forthcoming mobile Banias and
3.0GHz Pentium 4 processors and will announce plans for
sophisticated communications devices at its Developer Forum
conference in San Jose next week.
The architecture of the Banias chip, scheduled for release in the
first half of next year, will be revealed during keynotes from Paul
Otellini, president and chief operating officer of Intel, and Anand
Chandrasekher, vice-president and general manager of Intel's mobile
platforms group.
"Banias is the first time we've developed an architecture from the
ground up," said Frank Spindler, vice-president of the Intel
corporate technology group.
Ron Smith, senior vice-president and general manager of the
wireless communications and computing group, will discuss the new
capabilities of Intel's XScale processors, which are based on a
core from ARM. The XScale was introduced in February and is found
in products such as Hewlett-Packard's iPaq PDA.
The forum will also focus on the convergence of communications and
computing.
"Increasingly, the technologies that are appropriate for one
industry are moving to the other industry," added Anthony Ambrose,
director of the Intel communications group.
The last day of the show will consist of a keynote from Patrick
Gelsinger, vice-president and chief technology officer of the
corporate technology group, and Sunlin Chou, senior vice-president
and general manager of the technology and manufacturing
group.
Gelsinger and Chou will discuss the future of Moore's Law, the law
developed by Intel's co-founder Gordon Moore that states the number
of transistors on a chip will double every couple of years.