真乄科技業的頂尖投資團隊

Intel kick started 2011 with the release of their 2nd generation Core processors as they unleashed the Sandy Bridge architecture for the first time. Initially there were five processors, which included the popular Core i5-2500K and Core i7-2600K.

英特爾公司推出其最高階的六核心處理器系列，包括兩款新處理器：Intel Core (酷睿) i7-3960X處理器極致版以及Intel Core(酷睿) i7-3930K處理器。這是第2代“Sandy Bridge” Intel Core (酷睿)處理器系列中的首款六核心用戶端處理器。由超過20億個電晶體打造而成的英特爾最新用戶端處理器，其處理效能大約是36.5萬顆Intel 4004處理器。英特爾同時將在本月慶祝英特爾微處理器問世40週年。

我想聊一聊有關英特爾(Intel)為何在難以在電視和手機市場佔有一席之地──或許是缺乏謙卑，或許是傲慢。
就在不久前，英特爾宣佈退出數位電視業務。該公司曾推出兩個世代的SoC，其中一種是針對 Yahoo 軟體，而另一種則是針對 GoogleTV 。

英特爾總裁暨執行長歐德寧（Paul Otellini）指出，明年全球將有超過60款的Ultrabook上市，最低價格699美元（約新台幣2.1萬元），比現在最低價便宜逾二成。業界認為，將促使Ultrabook市場商機大開，成為非蘋果陣營大反攻救星。

英特爾在今年5月底的國際電腦展（Computex）上宣布與業界夥伴合作，打造新型態行動裝置「Ultrabook」，包括宏碁、華碩、東芝（Toshiba）、聯想等四大品牌廠均相繼發表Ultrabook，筆電龍頭廠惠普也預期年底搶進。

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NEW YORK – So, who are the unsuspecting victims of Intel Corp.'s plans, publicly disclosed this week, to “wind down” its digital TV SoC business?

Rick Doherty, co-founder and director of Envisioneering Group, identifies the real victims as “more than 20 Chinese ODMs, all hoping to ride Google TV’s coat tails.” These companies were developing add-ons to LCD display units for Google TV.  “They were getting lots of help from Intel to prototype [them], and approach U.S. and global retailers,” said Doherty. “They were all headed for a CES 2012 launch.”

Meanwhile, when asked which part of the CE business Intel is getting out of, an Intel spokesperson said: “the retail [digital TV] business.” While adding that Intel will continue to work with a few partners “on a case-by-case basis,” she declined to name names of such “partners.”

For Intel, ditching the digital TV SoC business was “a tough decision,” but it creates a clear path to align its consumer business with “Ultrabook devices, smartphones and tablets,” which the Intel spokesperson now describes as “top corporate imperatives.”

With this decision, Intel no longer needs to get caught up with, or getting distracted by, what might turn out to be fierce price competition on the digital TV SoC market.  Intel is now wisely shifting its CE silicon strategy to “the gateway and IP set-top-box media processor businesses.” Meanwhile, the company “will wind down its operations in the Digital TV business,” the spokesperson added.

So, what’s left of Intel’s CE business?

“The IP set-top media processor business” and “the gateway business,” says Intel. These remaining CE businesses will be folded into Intel’s tablet organization headed up by Doug Davis.

By “IP set-top media processor business,” Intel means “SoC silicon and hardware designed for high-quality digital set-top boxes where content delivery is via IP networks.
Clearly, Intel’s primary focus is on IP networks. Forget about traditional terrestrial, satellite or cable broadcast technologies.

In the “gateway (also known as cable) business,” Intel will continue to build SoC silicon and software for cable modems, cable gateways, Fiber-to-the-home gateways, retail IP gateways, and multimedia terminal adapters.  The cable modem technology Intel acquired from TI, for example, belongs to this gateway business category, and “will be part of the expanded charter of the Netbook and Tablet Group under Doug Davis,” explained the Intel spokesperson.

Doherty suspects that almost every major TV maker, Sony, Samsung, LG and Vizio included, who started with Intel SoC chips for their Google TVs, are now likely to pursue ARM-based solutions for TV screens. Intel’s 4200 series SoCs, which were on display as recently as the Intel Developers Forum last month, according to Doherty, are the ones most likely to be “wound down.”

What about so-called synergies between tablets and Intel’s remaining CE business?
Doherty said, “Intel could discount these CE 4200 SoCs for tablets…but they are still power- hungry.”

How Intel might succeed in the tablet and IP TV delivery segments is far from clear. Intel is starting “years after  NVidia, Qualcomm, Apple A5, even Marvell (they are in $299 Vizio tablet) and other ARM core solutions,” Doherty observed.

資料來源:http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4229746/Collateral-damage-from-Intel-s-DTV-decision

Intel Capital, the venture capital arm of the world's biggest semiconductor, said it plans to invest roughly $20 million in six Indian companies. 

Intel Corp. will pay between $300 million and $350 million to acquire Israel's Telmap Ltd., a provider of mobile navigation software, according to a report by the Reuters news service. 

圖1：使用MLC型閃存開發出用於數據中心等的SSD 

With all the hustle and bustle of IDF, one piece of news, gently unveiled in one of side technical sessions at the conference, mostly passed unnoticed. It was a particular detail about the updated graphics and multimedia processing hardware in the upcoming Ivy Bridge series of processors, expected to hit the shelves about half a year from now.

英特爾公司技術長Justin Rattner在舊金山舉行的英特爾科技論壇(Intel Developer Forum，IDF)上向與會來賓闡述，運算的未來發展腳步正持續加溫。他於會中宣告，多核心與許多核心運算已登上主流地位，並以超大規模運算的各項發展做為例證。

英特爾公司宣布將與Google合作，加速英特爾在智慧型手機(Smartphone)市場上的進展。英特爾亦指出旗下工程師正著手針對Ultrabook開發全新等級的平台電源管理技術，協助創造持續開機與上網的運算環境。

許多在同樣的智能手機秀出今天上午，英特爾還戲弄a Medfield基於Android平板電腦。但是，與原型安迪魯賓護送他下了舞台，我們能夠至少得到了密切和個人與英特爾內部兄弟。不幸的是我們沒有能夠真正接觸它，但這裡的到希望我們能夠追踪人下來，做一個適當的動手在某個時刻今天更新：我們的目光銳利的朋友在CarryPad已經發現了一個NFC標誌著在數位板的背面。

在IDF主題演講今天在舊金山，英特爾全世界展示一個太陽能供電的PC運行Windows基於其長期戲弄Haswell微架構 -完成labcoats和LOLcats。作為一個複習，Haswell是基於相同的22納米技術為常春藤橋，降低功率20倍相比，目前的設計，將有助於Ultrabooks實現10天連接待機到2013年。英特爾公司首席執行官歐德寧提到，Haswell將進一步加快Ultrabook創新，借助該公司的革命性3D三柵極晶體管。檢查出以太陽能為動力的未來在我們的畫廊如下。

在本週於舊金山召開的英特爾開發者論壇(IDF)中，英特爾將再揭示其採用三閘極(tri-gate) 3D 電晶體技術的 22nm 元件細節，並進一步說明超輕薄筆電(Ultrabook)的超薄、超低功耗設計概念。