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To: Donald Wennerstrom who wrote (15051)	5/9/2004 1:19:55 AM
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INTEL changes course. money.cnn.com <<Intel scraps new products Company says it's shifting focus to making chips that contain the cores of two microprocessors. May 7, 2004: 3:10 PM EDT SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Intel Corp., the world's largest chipmaker, said on Friday it has scrapped plans for two upcoming products, a move that analysts said showed that the company was trying to circumvent the growing problem of how much heat its chips generate.>> [snip] <<Intel plans to introduce dual-core chips for desktop computers in 2005 and plans to start shipments of dual-core chips for notebook computers the same year, spokeswoman Anderson said. Dual-core was originally a feature to be introduced in Intel's Itanium chips for powerful data-serving business computers, she said. "It's kind of a matter of reprioritizing our resources and accelerating development of dual core," she said. McCarron said that while heat generation was a factor in Intel's decision, another impetus was likely Intel's success in developing advanced manufacturing techniques that can accommodate dual-core chips. "They're also taking advantage of their new manufacturing capability, which allows them to put two processors onto one (chip)," he said.>> [snip]