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Intel's Barrett Outlines Company's Architectures For The InternetCalls on Developers to Join Intel in Investing for the FutureINTEL DEVELOPERS FORUM, SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 27, 2001 - Intel Corporation Chief Executive Officer Craig Barrett today outlined the four platform and silicon architectures that define Intel's role in the Internet economy. Barrett, before a crowd of 5,000 developers, engineers and other technical experts at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF), strongly urged the audience to join Intel in investing for future long-term growth despite near-term economic uncertainty. "The Internet is the growth engine of the future," said Barrett. "While technology companies may be facing slower demand for certain products today, the worldwide build out of the Internet will continue to drive increased productivity, new forms of communication and entirely new product categories well into the future. Now is the time to invest for that future. "Intel's four architectures are designed to provide the technology foundation upon which the industry can capture growth opportunities created by the Internet. Intel is focused on providing customers with the basic architectural building blocks for client devices, networking equipment and servers that will allow greater innovation, faster time to market and lower costs," said Barrett. Each of Intel's architectures for the Internet provides the industry with the key ingredients necessary to develop innovative new technologies and applications. Intel's CEO described the IA-32 chip architecture and the Intel® Personal Internet Client Architecture (Intel PCA) as the company's primary solutions for client-based wired and wireless computing. Intel's Internet Exchange Architecture (Intel IXA) is designed to provide a ready-made blueprint for building next-generation networking equipment that can quickly be brought to market. The company's Itanium™ processor architecture and Xeon™ processor family are designed to meet the price and performance requirements of the Internet server infrastructure. Barrett also noted Intel is investing heavily in new silicon technologies and manufacturing capacity that will enable the company to pursue future growth opportunities. "Intel will spend nearly $12 billion this year on R&D and new manufacturing capacity," said Barrett. "We're convinced this investment is essential to help Intel develop the new products and technologies that will result in long-term growth for our industry. "This year alone we will begin producing 300 millimeter wafers, introduce copper metalization, ramp 0.13 micron technology and deploy a host of other technologies that will allow Intel to help drive the next wave of innovation in the technology industry. We intend to provide the silicon that will power the Internet for generations to come," said Barrett. During his appearance at IDF Barrett was joined on stage by James Allchin, Microsoft group vice president of Platforms. Allchin demonstrated his company's upcoming Windows* XP operating system running on a powerful Pentium® 4 processor-based computer. The demonstration included examples of the extended PC - combining new Internet and consumer electronics applications with a PC to extend its use beyond traditional computing functions. In a subsequent keynote address at IDF today, Intel executive vice president Paul Otellini demonstrated several new products Intel will bring to market in coming months. "Intel's objective is to take the leadership technologies and architectures we've developed and use them to build innovative products for the future," said Otellini. "We will continue to do this in a way that delivers computing power where and how users want it." Otellini stated that the Pentium 4 processor with NetBurst® microarchitecture technology was designed from the ground up to deliver performance for various Internet-related functions, including music and video encoding, as well as graphic-intensive applications. Customer acceptance of the Pentium 4 processor has been strong and Intel will ramp the product faster than any other in the company's history. Otellini demonstrated several new and upcoming processors designed for mobile uses, including the first public demonstration of a processor built using the company's 0.13 micron process technology. He also announced availability of the latest addition to the company's mobile product line up: a low-voltage Pentium III processor operating at 700 MHz and drawing about 1 watt average power. "We intend to lead the industry across all aspects of the mobile processor market segment," said Otellini. "From low power to high performance and all combinations in between, Intel has consistently proven its technological prowess and leadership in mobile computing." Addressing the important and fast-growing enterprise segment of the market, Otellini stated that Intel's success in enterprise computing is continuing to grow rapidly. He noted that Intel Pentium III Xeon processor-based systems made up about 85 percent of the servers sold last year according to industry analyst reports. In addition, unit sales of Pentium III Xeon processors grew more than 50 percent during 2000. And, while Intel-based servers are traditionally known as the industry price-performance leader, today such systems also hold the four top positions in TPC-C benchmark rankings. "Intel is poised to extend its server leadership in 2001 with the introduction in the second quarter of our Pentium 4-based Xeon processor, code-named Foster," said Otellini. "The Foster product will have one-and-a-half to two times the performance of current offerings because it has been specifically designed to handle complex server workloads." Intel's Itanium processor is also gaining momentum with more than 300 software applications built to run on the new processor and hundreds of others in development. Intel's Itanium processor will be important in future enterprise applications because of Internet-driven demands for data, the increase in the amount of data that needs to be processed, the requirement for fast response rates and the overriding concern for more secure transactions. Otellini then demonstrated for the first time in a public forum, the next-generation Itanium processor code-named McKinley. The processor was co-developed with Hewlett-Packard Company. Duane E. Zitzner, president of Hewlett-Packard's Computing Systems organization, joined Otellini on stage demonstrating McKinley-based servers running three operating systems. Otellini noted that Intel is now shipping initial McKinley engineering samples to OEM customers. McKinley-based systems are expected to reach the marketplace next year. "We're very pleased with the progress we've made on both the initial version of the Itanium processor and McKinley," said Otellini. "These products will be central to Intel's success for many years to come." About IDF * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. |
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