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Intel Vows to Push for Speed Gains in Coming Chips Monday September 9, 8:05 pm ET By Mark Boslet biz.yahoo.com Dow Jones Newswires SAN JOSE -- Intel Corp. (NasdaqNM:INTC - News) vowed to continue delivering dramatic speed gains in its next generation of chips even as new communications features are added to the ever more capable silicon. The familiar theme came as the chip maker opened its weeklong, semiannual Developers Forum here with a demonstration of a future version of its struggling Itanium server chip line -- called Madison -- and the announcement of new hardware security initiative, dubbed LaGrande. Intel also said it would include hyper-threading technology -- which permits a microprocessor to better devote attention to two tasks simultaneously -- in the 3 GHz Pentium 4 chip it plans to ship in the fourth quarter. The inclusion of the new technology in a desktop PC chip is ahead of schedule and can produce a 25% performance boost for business and consumer software, said Paul Otellini, chief operating officer. Intel already provides the technology in server chips. Mr. Otellini said the company will provide hyper threading in at least 80% of its server chips, 60% of its workstation chips and 25% of desktop chips next year. Mr. Otellini, during a keynote address, stressed that Intel's push to make faster chips with integrated communications technology to link computers to the Internet will "deliver the fuel for growth (and) for reigniting this industry." After the "toughest retrenchment in the history of the industry" Intel is " going to continue to advance Moore's Law," which predicts that chips double in performance every 18 months, Mr. Otellini said. The company demonstrated a Pentium 4 that under lab conditions ran at 4.7 GHz, or almost double the speed of its fastest 2.4 GHz chip today. Mr. Otellini also showed off Madison, which next year will become the next member of its Itanium 2 family of chips for brawny business-market servers. The line has struggled. But Otellini said Madison will deliver a 30% performance boost. Madison also will be made with 500 million transistors. Intel will not stop here, however. A chip with 1 billion transistors is already under development inside the company, Otellini said. "This stuff is not rocket science. It is not far away." He was less specific with LaGrande, an advanced hardware security technology that is to block hackers from gaining access to computing devices such as hard drives, microprocessors or memory buses. He said LaGrande won't be available until 2003 or later. During his keynote, Intel showed off a laptop chip called Banias that is to ship in the first quarter of next year. The chip will have integrated wireless communications technology, making use of the 802.11a standard, and new battery conservation technology. The integrated features could generate a better profit margin, he said. -By Mark Boslet, Dow Jones Newswires, 650-496-1366; mark.boslet@dowjones.com (Compiled from Dow Jones Newswires and other sources)