Chip maker introduces its first wireless broadband processor and
sets out its service-oriented enterprise strategy at last week's
conference in the US
Intel unveiled a development roadmap which it claimed would reshape
corporate IT at its developer forum conference in San Francisco
last week.
It proposed an IT architecture blueprint it believes will minimise
the cost of business transformation to user organisations.
The blueprint, dubbed the service-oriented enterprise (SOE)
initiative, is designed to offer IT directors a modular approach to
enterprise IT. Intel said SOE combines mobility, grid computing and
management technologies into a framework to assist IT managers
transform the business.
The blueprint also aims to provide IT directors with a framework
for supporting emerging technologies such as radio frequency
identification and voice over IP telephony.
The technology drivers behind SOE include virtualisation,
modularisation, power management and system management.
Intel's goal is to enhance the IT function's responsiveness to
business needs and provide easier management of diverse systems as
companies grapple with growing mountains of data.
Deborah Conrad, vice-president of Intel's solutions market
development group, said, "The convergence of computing and
communications technologies enables businesses to deliver more
value to customers by making it easier to access information and
improve response time."
Intel's enterprise platform roadmap
The first two Intel Xeon MP processors based on the 90nm
process, codenamed Cranford and Potomac, are expected in the first
half of 2005.
The products will include Intel's Extended Memory 64 technology
and demand-based switching with enhanced Speedstep technology.
They will be supported by a new four-way chipset, codenamed Twin
Castle, that supports PCI Express and DDR2 memory.
Multi-core technology is expected to arrive in high-end systems
with a dual-core Intel Xeon MP processor, codenamed Tulsa, and an
Itanium 2 processor codenamed Montecito.
A new version of the Itanium 2 dual-core processor, codenamed
Montvale, will be the first Itanium processor based on the 65nm
process technology and is planned after Montecito.
Intel is also planning to develop a multi-core Intel Xeon
processor MP, codenamed Whitefield, and a multi-core Itanium 2
processor, codenamed Tukwila.
Intel said Irwindale will be the codename for a follow-on
processor to the recently introduced Intel Xeon 3.6GHz
processor.
Intel is also developing server virtualisation technology to
support partitioning, along with improved security and
reliability.
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