Intel talks up dual-core processors, WiMAX
WinInfo | at | by Mike
At this week's Intel Developer Forum (IDF) Fall 2004 conference in San Francisco, microprocessor giant Intel unveiled two of the products the company expects to drive sales in the future: dual-core processors and WiMAX, a so-called "broaderband" wireless technology. Intel says that all its microprocessor product lines will offer dual-core variants in 2005, significantly improving performance. Intel will also offer multicore processor variants, which are chips that integrate the processing power of three or more CPUs into one chip. As for WiMax, also known as IEEE 802.16-2004, Intel says the wireless technology will provide faster connectivity than today's Wi-Fi solutions and do so over very wide areas. Intel predicts that WiMAX will do to today's cable modem and DSL broadband solutions what cell phones did to terrestrial-based telephones (i.e., kill them). "We are on the cusp of the WiMax era," Intel President Paul Otellini said.