Intel Plans to Release New Chip…
Intel plans to release a new chip next year, dubbed Silverthorn, that will be 1/7 the size of normal chips and consume 1/10 the power of typical processor chips today. Intel hopes to attack the market for devices optimized to “cost, power and portability.”
Intel’s Silverthorn Draws Doubts
CEO Otellini is betting on a new power-sipping chip aimed at mobile Internet devices, but analysts are skeptical it will be a silver bullet
by Arik Hesseldahl
When Intel CEO Paul Otellini took the dais at a May 3 analysts meeting in New York, he discussed plans for a processor that will be aimed at everything from low-cost mobile PCs to handhelds. The skeptics in the Marriott (MAR) conference room might have been forgiven for thinking they had heard this message before.
Intel (INTC) has struggled for growth in a personal computer market that in areas of the world is reaching maturity, and at various stages of history the company has taken aim at new markets like wireless phones and bargain-basement PCs—too often, unsuccessfully. Case in point: the mobile-chip business sold to Marvell (MRVL) last year.
