Intel's Otellini Outlines Plans For Accelerating The Convergence Of Computing And Communications

SEATTLE, April 18, 2002 - Intel Corporation President and Chief Operating Officer Paul Otellini today outlined Intel's plans to drive the convergence of computing and communications and create new classes of devices through technology integration.

"In the future, all computers will communicate and all communication devices will compute," said Otellini. "To support this environment and enhance the user experience, we need to deliver innovative technologies for performance, communications and more secure platforms. Our ultimate goal is to bring computing to everyone - any time and any place in the world."

Speaking to developers at the Microsoft Windows Hardware Engineering Conference here, Otellini noted that laptops with integrated 802.11 wireless communications capabilities and upcoming desktop PCs with Intel's Hyper-Threading Technology represent a new way of defining system performance.

Otellini highlighted Intel's future mobile platform, codenamed Banias, as representative of the notion that performance and innovations should extend beyond sheer processing power. Banias systems are designed specifically for the mobile market and most will ship with optimizations for 802.11 wireless technologies.

Demonstrated publicly for the first time today, the Banias mobile platform is due in the first half of 2003. It is expected to bring users the best mobile experience by delivering on key vectors of mobility including mobile-optimized performance, longer battery life, thinner and lighter form factors and seamless wireless connectivity.

Otellini also demonstrated Hyper-Threading Technology on a desktop PC for the first time. It will improve performance for users who are doing increasingly complex and interrelated tasks on their computers, such as rendering photos, printing documents, surfing the Web and running virus scans simultaneously. Hyper-Threading Technology is now shipping on Intel® Xeon™ processor-based servers and enables operating systems and applications to take advantage of a single physical processor as though it were two processors. It is expected to appear in desktop PCs in 2003.

Otellini said that more robust hardware with specific security features is fundamental to building greater levels of protection for businesses as software-based attacks increase. He called for increased industry cooperation to accelerate the delivery of systems that offer a safer computing environment for users.

Finally, Otellini encouraged developers to consider the unique needs of emerging markets when designing products, and said that opportunities exist to tailor computers specifically for those regions. Emerging markets are expected to constitute approximately 40 percent of the overall world PC market by 2006.

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