Intel's New Atom to Launch in September

With a success of Atom processor (can we say it's a succes?), a new product based on Atom is inevitable. The next stop for Atom is the dual core Atom 330 desktop processor. Like Atom 230, it's fabricated using 45nm technology and will incorporated Hyper Threading. So the new Atom 330 will appear to have four cores within the OS.
According to Register Hardware, the new Atom will be soldered onto Intel's upcoming 945GX-based D945GCFL2 motherboard that support up to 2GB of DDR2 memory.

Intel's Next 4 Years Roadmap

One of the most anticipated releases for late 2008 is Intel's Nehalem processor that was recently named Intel Core i7. Looking forward, according to internal slides, Intel plans to release a 32nm shrink of Nehalem, codenamed Westmere at the end of 2009.
The next new architecture after Nehalem is codenamed Sandy Bridge (formerly known as Gester) and will be built on a 32nm process. While details are scarce, Intel is hard at wesl on its development and details have begun to trickle out. Sandy Bridge will features some key improvements. It will support wider vectors which Intel says allows far more power efficient floating point operations. It also will feature "advanced data rearrangement" involving the use of 256 bit primitives. Intel says this will improve cache coordination and help to speed the flow of data. The new architecture will support three and four operand instructions and non destructive syntax to minimize register copies and allow for extensibility. The architecture also feature "flexible unaligned memory access support" which Intel indicates will allow computations to be immediately performed on data loaded from memory. Intel also will offer up an extensible new opcode (VEX) which it says will reduce code size. The overall result of the improvements will be as much as 90% in certain mathematically intensive operations such as matrix multiplies according to Intel.
With the Sandy Bridge processors expected to land in 2010, 2011 will bring a shrink codenamed Ivy Bridge which will be madd at the 22nm node.
Finally the next new Haswell architecture will arrive. It's still in an early stages but Intel has big plans for it. Early reports indicate that it will have 8 physical cores by default and revolutionary power saving features.
Intel was rather tight-lipped about architectural details on its upcoming GPU, Larrabee. Also detailed in brief was the possible Atom succesor, the upcoming Tolapai processor formerly codenamed Pineview. Tolapai is a System On a Chip (SOC) in that it will feature an integrated DDR2 memory controller, an integrated graphics core, and a full chipset which features PCI, ethernet, serial, and peripheral connections. The chips processor will be an x86 design based on the Pentium M and will consist of 148 million transistor. It will come in a 37,5 mm X 37,5 mm package. It will launch with 600 MHz or 1200 MHz clocked models. The new integrated system is expected to be usee in Netbooks as well as other divese applications and will compete with ARM Holdings' SOC offerings.

Intel Announced USB 3.0 Host Controller

Intel finally announced the availability of the draft specification for the USB 3.0 host controller. Intel dubbed the specification the Extensible Host Controller Interface (xHCI). The architecture is also known as SuperSpeed USB.
Intel says the xHCI draft 0.9 provides a standardized method for the host controller to communicate with the USB 3.0 software stack. The specification describes the registers and data structures needed to provide the interface between system software and USB 3.0 hardware. Intel also says that it plans to make available a revised xHCI 0.95 specification in the fourth quarter of 2008. The USB 3.0 specification promises to increase performance by 10 times what USB 2.0 is capable of. USB 3.0 or SuperSpeed USB promises bandwidth in the 600MB/second range. Products utilizing USB 3.0 are expected to arrive in 2009 or 2010. USB 3.0 is also compatible with USB 2.0 and USB 1.1.

Intel's Next Generation Turbo Memory

Since Microsoft launched Windows Vista, there have been a number of complaints from users regarding usability of the operating system an other problems. One of the most common complaints about the OS is the sometimes sluggish response times in machines with inadequate amounts of memory on board. Microsoft tried to address some of the memory utilization issues with its ReadyBoost capability, but many people who try it reported no real gains in performance.
Intel saw the opening for technology that would help accelerate Windows Vista and introduced its Turbo Memory. Intel Turbo Memory has not proven to be successful to date and has found little support from PC manufacturers.
News.com reports that Intel has introduced a new version of its Turbo Memory, which aims to transparently optimize Windows for flash memory storage. The new version offers a dashboard for Windows and allows the user to choose and control what applications or files are loaded into Turbo Memory "user pinning". Programs and applications that are data intensive will see the most benefit from the new Intel Turbo Memory according to Intel. Turbo Memory is also said to be capabln of accelerating gaming, digital media editing, and productivity software.

Intel Introduced i7

Intel's latest, it's eight core chips based on the new Nehalem architecture have been named and are almost ready to launch.
With the power of 8 logical cores (four physical, doubled by Hyper-threading) built on a 45 nm process to leverage, it's shaping up to be a strong offering. It features Quick path, an answer to AMD's Hyper transport, on chip memory controller, SSE4 instruction support, and 8 MB cache pool.
The processor will be branded Intel Core with i7 identifier for the first round chips. This brand will include an extreme edition at launch according to Intel.