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Intel CTO says may have to live with slow Q2
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Intel Corp. may have to put up with continuing slow demand for its chips this quarter as customers wait for the launch of its new products in the second half of the year, an executive said.
"We are seeing a bit of a slowdown," Chief Technology Officer Justin Rattner told Reuters in an interview on Monday, saying he believed those clients with the flexibility to wait for the new, more efficient chips were doing so.
"You always see a little bit of that, so literally until we have them available, until we have them on the market, we're going to have to deal with that," he said.
The world's biggest chipmaker, which cut its annual revenue forecast last week as it faces a growing challenge from rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc., is launching a new line of more efficient microprocessors in the second half of the year.
AMD has made inroads into Intel's dominant market share through innovations such as being first to put two processing cores in a single chip, allowing it to handle multiple tasks more efficiently, and cutting power usage.
Rattner said Intel's new Core Duo processor, which it launched this year, was "unquestionably more efficient" than any comparable product from AMD, and as efficient as its 486 and Pentium processors of more than a decade ago.
"I think we've thrown down the gauntlet," he said.
Intel unveiled its new line of more efficient microprocessors last month to reverse a trend of making chips that guzzle more and more electricity, and acknowledged it was under "tremendous competitive pressure" from AMD.
Rattner said on Monday: "I think the second half of the year will be very strong for Intel."
TERA COMPUTING
Rattner was speaking at the official opening of a new research center in the city of Braunschweig, or Brunswick, in north-western Germany, where Intel will focus on processors with many more cores than the dual-core chips it currently offers.
He said Intel was looking at "a time in the not-too-distant future -- end of the decade, early next decade -- when there will be tens of cores per chip ... Here in Braunschweig they'll take part of that agenda."
Braunschweig, which employs about 120 research and development staff, will be part of Intel's so-called tera-scale research program, developing processors that can handle a trillion or more operations per second.
"We're on something of an applications plateau because overall performance growth has slowed," Rattner said.
Rattner said tera-computing was needed, for example, to develop applications that mimicked human behavior in fields such as recognizing speech or shapes.
"The advent of multi-core is going to put us back on what had been this long-term trajectory where we were doubling performance every 18 to 24 months. Applications will change dramatically because of the amount of computing power," he said.
