Intel unveils first made in india chip

Intel unveils first Made-in-India chip
17 Sep, 2008

BANGALORE: The world's largest chipmaker, Intel, on Tuesday unveiled its latest microprocessor for servers, designed entirely by its Bangalore team and developed in a record two years. The Intel R&D centre in Bangalore designed the Xeon 7400 series processor and it marked the first time that work on the 45 nanometre  technology was taken up by the company outside itsUS home base. The six-core microprocessor is based on Intel's x86 architecture.

A 300-member team from Bangalore undertook the work with support from units in the US and Costa Rica, Intel India president Praveen Vishakantaiah said.

Intel's Bangalore R&D operations, which started a decade ago, have grown to become one of the largest centres outside the US. Besides the six-core microprocessor, the India R&D team has made important contributions to the teraflop and quad-core Xeon processor. 

Mr Vishakantaiah described it as a validation of the Bangaloreoperations and termed the country as a strategic destination as Intel India continues its focus on high-end technology development. The company said that upgradation costs in moving to the new server chips would be limited as the existing technology platform would support its new microprocessor.

R Ravichandran, South Asia sales director Intel said the new processor would allow a 10-fold reduction in power consumption while substantially increasing performance.