Intel Vice President Mobility Group and General Manager Mobile
Microprocessor Group Ron Friedman says that Intel's Haifa center had a key
role in development of the Penryn by helping bring the new technology to
production after Intel's California center completed the basic development.
In addition, the new processors will be produced at Fab 28, now under
construction at Kiryat Gat, which is due to begin production in about a
year, slightly later than the original target date of the first half of
2008.
Intel's announcement was the latest phase in the ongoing effort to
consolidate the architecture of the Core 2, the company's latest processor,
as the unchallenged leader for servers across a wide spectrum of demands:
from small servers for family firms to the supercomputers installed at giant
corporations, research institutes, engineering projects, and movie
animation.
Intel Corporation (Nasdaq:INTC) has launched the first 45-nanometer
processors, codenamed "Penryn". The new processors use an entirely new
transistor formula that alleviates the wasteful electricity leaks that
threaten the pace of future computer innovation. The Penryn processors are
intended for desktop computers and servers under Intel's Core 2 Extreme and
Xeon brands. The new processors are intended to be produced at the company's
newest fabs in Arizona and Kiryat Gat.