Intel's first three-dimensional transistor – Intel Tri-Gate – is expected to be rolled out in the Indian market next year, the Intel South Asia Director (Sales), Mr R Ravichandran, said.
Disclosing this to presspersons here today, Mr Ravichandran said the company always believed that technological innovations were capable of transforming lives and future of the country.
“Intel Tri-Gate is based on a 22-nanometer silicon manufacturing process, which would go into ‘Ivy-Bridge' the next set of PC processors. It is a major advance from the planar design in use for the past 50 years.
The chip would provide 37 per cent higher performance and 50 per cent reduction in power consumption and improved switching characteristics.”
He said Intel architecture was evolving towards three-dimensional transistors, with users demanding quality and performance capability.
“The future of computing is witnessing a changing trend. Till 2009, around 150 hexa-bytes went through Internet, but in 2010 alone, it jumped to 175 hexa-bytes signalling more users/traffic.”
Sharing a study, he said that by 2015, over one billion netizens would be using the Internet, more than 15 billion connected devices and over one zeta-byte Internet traffic.
Intel and its ecosystem partners were working to make the Intel Cloud 2015 a reality, he said, adding that “Intel's vision behind ‘Cloud 2015' aimed at making cloud-based Internet computing more interoperable, secure and simple”
As a first step towards Cloud 2015, Intel helped create the Open Data Centre Alliance, which is a coalition of more than 70 businesses and representing $50 billion in annual IT investment that have cloud research or projects under way.