Intel ships 60 m multi-core processors
After having heralded the multi-core PC era last year delivering the quad core and other multi-core processors, Intel is witnessing strong sales of the new-gen processor families, officials said.
Company officials said Intel had shipped 60-70 million multi-core processors including roughly a million quad core processors in the past one year. Intel’s quad core brand is positioned as four brains inside a single microprocessor. However, company officials would not give statistics on the numbers obsorbed by the Indian market.
Phil De La Zerda, Intel’s Director of sales and business development of developer products division said over 200 universities across the world were now having multi-core processing as part of their curriculum. In India, about 250 colleges are understood to be in the process of including multi-core processing in their curriculum with some having already done so.
Narendra Bhandari, Intel’s director for Asia Pacific said the forecast was that 80% of the total procesor sales would soon be of the dual-core variety, which enabled significant power savings while enhancing performance, and that in course of time the trend would come to mobile phones as well.
Other players in the industry, too, have multi-core processors, pointing to the new generation of processors being the norm in the days to come, officials said.
De La Zerda said future programmers would work in the parallel environment, making use of the multi-core processors. It is estimated that once the programs are ready fir parallelism, longer battery lives would be a natural offshoot.
