CHENNAI: Intel Corporation launched globally on Tuesday its new quad core chips for both server and desktop platforms. Part of the work involved in getting these chips ready was undertaken at the Intel India Development Centre (IIDC) in Bangalore, according to Ramamurthy Sivakumar, Country Manager, Intel Technology India Pvt. Ltd.

Addressing a press conference here on Tuesday, Mr. Sivakumar said the new quad chips included four computing `brains' inside a single microprocessor with the introduction of the quad-core Intel Xeon 5300 and Intel Core 2 Extreme quad-core processor families. These products deliver immense speed and responsiveness for general-purpose servers, workstations, digital media creation, high-end gaming and other markets that demanded absolute performance. The price of these products varied from $455 to $1,172, he said.

Mr. Sivakumar said Intel began the transition to multi-core technology four years ago with Intel Hyper threading technology, followed by the introduction of the industry's first dual-core PC processors in April last year. Intel recently refreshed its entire product line in 100 days by introducing more than 30 new desktop and server processors based on Intel core micro-architecture.

He said the Digital Enterprise Group (DEG) at IIDC undertook significant work related to post silicon functional validation, which involved the crucial decision of whether the product was ready to be launched in the markets or not.

Mr. Sivakumar said IIDC had been steadily contributing to the development of Intel's products. Other contributions included a small form factor notebook based on the platform, codenamed `NapaSFF', the upcoming launch of the new mobile platform - codenamed `Santa Rosa'- due for launch in January 2007 and the classmate PC, which is soon to be launched.

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