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Intel Reports of New Way to Make Energy Effective Chips

World leader in CPU manufacturing, Intel, has announced that its researchers have made it possible to insulate circuits in a more efficient way enabling them to save energy as they pack more transistors onto each CPU. The new chips will enter the mass production stage by 2010 and will give Intel`s CPU a 45 percent boost performance wise.

Making chips that consume less energy is an important marketing advantage with users looking for the lowest energy cost mobile computers and PDAs. The mobile market is driven by cost-effective energy computers and Intel will have a clear advantage when the new chips hit the market. AMD in response is advertising that their Opteron chip will reduce electricity costs compared to Intel`s Xeon chips, and hoping that users will migrate to their system at present time.

Intel`s new technology extends Moore`s Law once again. Gordon Moore said that the number of transistors on a chip would double about every two years. If Intel releases their new line of chips before 2010 than Moore will still be right, and people who are looking for changes that are more drastic from the chips industry will have to wait for the next generation of chips technology.