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Wednesday, Jun 23, 2004

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Intel's digital home initiative

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI, JUNE 22. Promising to make personal computers (PCs) more entertaining and productive for home-users and professionals, the multinational chipmaker, Intel, today unveiled new chips and processors that form part of the company's $200 million digital home initiative. The chips — Intel 915 G/P and Intel 925X Express — are available from today and along with the new Intel Pentium 4 processors support the `Hyper-Threading' technology. The chipsets are built on Intel's 90 nm manufacturing process technology and run at speeds up to 3.6 GHz.

"he new launch forms the part of the company's digital home initiative. The designing of the chips at our India centre is just the beginning and we will soon come up with complete chipsets for this ambitious project,'' said President, Intel India, Ketan Sampat, adding that they had already hired more people at their development centre exclusively for research and design of the chipsets.

Under the $200 million programme, Intel will fund companies worldwide in the networked personal computers and consumer electronics market as it did at the time of the introduction of the Wi-Fi technology. "The new products will be used in a range of audio, video and other capabilities that are found only on speciality PCs. These technologies will also pave the way for emerging capabilities such as high definition (HD) video, hi-fidelity surround sound, wireless connectivity and robust file protection for office and home users,'' said Mr. Sampat.

Informing about the company's future plans, Mr. Sampat said they had hired around 500 people in the first half of 2004 taking their total strength in India to 2,000. "This has been done to further strengthen our development centre here that works exclusively on cutting edge technologies,'' Mr. Sampat said. He also informed that the first phase of Intel's Bangalore campus, coming up with an investment of $41 million, would start operating from mid-2005.

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