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Intels Larrabee chip technology will assist Intel take home a spot in the high-end graphics card marketplace. Larrabee will be a stencil for a series of chips. Unlike processors which have 2 to 4 cores, Larrabee chips will have somewhere in the range of 12 to 48. AMD and NVidia already have graphics processor chips with quite a few hundred cores, so Intel is facing considerable competition. AMD and NVidia obviously say Intels graphics chips will not be talented to outperform their own. They tip out flaws, such as the fact that Intel will be using software to complete a lot of the rendering. Besides the recital challenge, Intel also needs to match the manufacturing cost and power utilization of current GPUs.

If youve been keeping up with the news about Intels ultra low CULV platform then you shouldnt be surprised to hear that some companies are planning to use it in forthcoming notebooks.

Intels next-generation notebook platform (Calpella) is programmed to get underway in the 3rd quarter of 2009. As with other Nehalem generation products, Calpella will abandon the present Northbridge and Southbridge chipset understanding and transfer many typical Northbridge components to the CPU wrap up. A solitary integrated chipset codenamed Ibex Peak-M will synchronize other features on the motherboard, according to sources at laptop makers. Ibex Peak-M will support Intels next-generation laptop CPUs (Clarksfield and Auburndale), both of which embrace an on-die DDR3 memory controller. Auburndale will also comprise a graphics core incorporated in the CPU package. The Calpella platform will shore up Wi-Fi a/b/g/n (Puma Peak) or Wi-MAX (Kilmer Peak) wireless modules.

According to media reports, Intel has stopped accepting orders for its Z-series Atom processors. Originally meant for use in the Mobile Internet Devices (MID), the Z-series processors are now commonly used in netbooks like Eee PC T91, Sony VAIO P and Dell Mini 12.

Intel plans to completely stop the supply of Z-series chips to netbook manufacturers by the end of this year. The chipmaker will still fulfill orders already placed by Acer, Asustek and MSI. Meanwhile, Intel’s new generation of Atom chips are scheduled for release later this year. These new chips are part of the Pine Trail platform.