Intel Code-named Penryn to be launched on Nov. 12

Intel is on schedule to launch its next key computer chip - a product code named Penryn - on Nov. 12., the company announced Tuesday.
The Santa Clara company also demonstrated a working version of Penryn's successor - Nehalem - at its semi-annual developers forum for hardware designers in San Francisco.
During a keynote address kicking off the event, Chief Executive Paul Otellini used the twin announcements to argue that Intel remains in fighting trim.

"We're cranking up full scale production in two fabs with 45-nanometer" technology, the manufacturing technology that will produce Penryn and later Nehalem, Otellini said during a Q&A session following his speech. "We think this is a sustainable competitive advantage."
The company's 45-nanometer technology will produce smaller chips that can run faster and use energy more efficiently. Intel has begun using 45-nanometers well in advance of its rival, Advanced Micro Devices.
Nehalem, which is scheduled for launch during the second half of 2008, will come in a model sporting eight cores. Intel presently makes dual and four-core chips.
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