Results and perspectives

Evgenie Rudometov

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Intel corporation has promulgated the results of the activity testifying to considerable growth of incomes, pawning a basis of its further development on path of implementation of arrogant schedules.

Often parsing reachings of the current technologies operating in some cases with units which sizes already less than biological viruses, and estimating possibilities of surprising electronic products, we not seldom forget, what price all it is reached. As a rule, we do not reflect and that behind all reached miracles of computer equipment stand work of millions highly skilled experts, huge material and financial resources.

As a result of struggle for new boundaries, to the corporations occupied in hi-tech branches of the modern industry, it is necessary to solve permanently the most complicated scientific and industrial tasks. Their activity is carried out in the conditions of the most severe competition and saving of resources.

In this competitive race those from them who most fast and effectively realises the possibilities win. Therefore there is nothing surprising that a manual and shareholders of corporations are anxious by a problem of rational usage human, material and financial resources.

In operation of each corporation regularly there occurs extremely important stage when its operations testifying to a management efficiency and reached results of operation are summed up. Thus the greatest attention of the public is chained to those corporations, whose activity to the greatest degree influences development of the modern industry. The corporation of Intel which is one of leaders of the computer industry and whose initiatives quite often concerns their number become branch standards.

Following the settled tradition, representation of results of operation occurs publicly. Recently appropriate action has taken place once again in Moscow.

At traditional press conference were present Christian Morales (Christian Morales), the vice-president on sales and marketing, general controlling Intel business at locale EMEA (Europe, the Near East and Africa), and also Andrey Greben, the regional manager of Intel in the CIS. They have told about totals of operation of Intel and some schedules of corporation.

Fig. 1. Press conference

Fig. 2. Christian Morales, Andrey Greben, Alexander Palladin

Intel has completed with profit the seventeenth year successively.

The net profit of corporation of Intel in the third quarter 2003 has made 2,2 bln. dollars, that on 31 % it is more in comparison with the last quarter and on 107 % more in comparison with the similar period of last year.

The income of corporation of Intel for the fourth quarter 2003 has made 8,74 bln. dollars, that on 12 % it is more in comparison with the last quarter and on 22 % more in comparison with the similar period of previous year. Level of incomes of Intel for the fourth quarter 2003 became record for all time of existence of corporation.

Corporation incomes for 2003 have made 30,1 billion dollars, having increased on 13 % in comparison with 2002. The net profit has made 5,6 billion dollars, having increased on 81 % in comparison with previous year. The income on the action has made 0,85 dollars, having increased by 85 % in comparison with 2002 In 2003 Intel corporation has paid dividends at a rate of 524 million dollars and used 4 mlrd dollars of cash resources for the repayment about 176 million usual actions.

The income for the first quarter 2004 is predicted in a band from 7,9 billion to 8,5 billion dollars.

Expenditures on research and development in 2004 will make about 4,8 billion dollars (in 2003 this digit has made 4,4 billion dollars). The planned increase in expenditures at research and development basically is linked to development new 65-nanometrovoj processing techniques on which base in 2005 production of processors on 300-cross-section slices will start.

The total amount of capital investments in 2004 will make roughly
3,6-4,0 billion dollars. (In 2003 the total amount of capital investments has made
3,7 billion dollars). Capital investments of corporation of Intel in industrial facilities basically are aimed at 300-cross-section processing technique.

In 2003 scientists and engineers of corporation of Intel have received 1592 patents in the USA that is record digit for the company. As a result Intel corporation became the seventh in the list of 10 companies which have received the greatest number of patents of Agency under patents and trade marks of the USA for the last year. In comparison with previous year, in 2003 the number of the patents received in the USA by employees of corporation of Intel, has increased by 48 percent.

Patents for 2003 (the USA

Considerable investments of corporation of Intel into a fixed capital, researches and scientific and technical developments the last some years have allowed to put record quantity of microprocessors in 2003 and to output on the market new production.

To number of such processing techniques it is necessary to mark, for example, processing technique of Intel Centrino for transportable PCs. Products on the basis of Centrino in short period have won popularity among users, considerably having overtaken on number of sales alternative solutions.

In the fourth quarter 2003 Corporation of Intel of the beginning of delivery of processors Pentiumj 4 Extreme Edition for desktop PCs with clock rate of 3,2 GHz, support of processing technique Hyper-Threading and additional 2 MB of the cache memory. These processors basically are intended for fans of modern games for the PC and computer enthusiasts. In the fourth quarter Intel corporation also has started deliveries of the first processor to base 90-nanometrovoj processing techniques under code name Prescott. Mass production of these processors is started. And recently six new models of processors of Intel of Pentium  4 with clock rate Clock rate 3,4, 3,2, 3,0, 2,8ГГц have been declared 

The newest models of processors of Intel of Pentium 4

Processors of Intel of Pentium 4, made on 90-nanometrovomu to production, possess all possibilities of processing technique Hyper-Threading (HT) by operation in the multitask environments. Thus they have a number of features, including advanced microarchitecture of Intel NetBurst, the increased cache memory of 2nd level in size of 1 Mb and 13 new instructions SSE3.

Intel corporation has raised to 3,40 GHz and clock rate of the processor of Pentium 4 Extreme Edition with support of processing technique HT. This processor released on 0,13-micron industrial processing technique of corporation of Intel and equipped with the cache memory built in a chip of 3rd level in size of 2 Mb.

In the field of transportable solutions the corporation has presented processor Celeron M — the first processor of an economy class on the basis of microarchitecture Banias for transportable PCs. In the second quarter 2004 Intel corporation plans to start deliveries of the first processor for the transportable PCs, made on 90-nanometrovoj processing techniques, under code name Dothan.

In the field of wireless access Intel corporation has presented support of double-duty wireless hooking up to networks 802.11a/b for notebooks on the basis of processing technique of Intel Centrino. New wireless adapters of Intel support more an access high speed to networks Wi-Fi, than their earlier versions supporting only 802.11b. In the first quarter 2004 Intel corporation also has started to include new wireless adapters 802.11b/g in systems on the basis of processing technique of Intel Centrino for transportable PCs.

Development and release of processors of Intel XScale, being a basis of the newest handheld computers (PDA) and smart phones proceeds. Thanking moshnym to processors the given arrangements provide high-quality reproduction of music records, video films and photos.

Within the limits of the concept of the digital house Intel corporation has declared development of entertaining PCs (Entertainment PC) - small arrangements with the remote control, hooked up to usual TVs. These arrangements will appear in the middle of 2004. And recently experts of Intel was has shown new the LCOS-processing technique, allowing to raise quality of the map of TVs HDTV with б1205им the screen and to reduce their cost.

For the purpose of an expedition of similar developments the corporation has declared creation of fund of Intel Digital Home in the size in 200 million dollars. This fund will put resources in the companies which are engaged in development program and a hardware for convergence of the PC and home electronics.

The corporation of Intel and the server market does not leave the attention. Development of the architecture of processors Itanium 2 proceeds. The quantity of systems on the basis of processors of Intels used by the largest 500 companies of the world, has grown for six months almost on 50 %. The quantity of supercomputers on the basis of Intel processors has exceeded for the first time quantity of supercomputers on the basis of RISC architecture.

The corporation continues operations on perfection of a procedure according to which release of the products is carried out.

In spite of the fact that the branch as a whole only prepares for transition to scale of 90 nanometers, experts of Intel have declared development and release of full-function chips SRAM on the basis of the processing technique of 65 nanometers which are a basis of production of high density semiconducting systems of a new generation.

Fig. 3. Unit SRAM, 65 nanometers created on processing technique 

Intel corporation plans to start mass production of arrangements on the basis of 65 nanometers of processing technique on 300 mm wafers in 2005 .

It is necessary to mark, that reduction of the sizes of transistors as a part of semiconducting crystals demands new approaches and processing techniques.

Fig. 4. Evolution of solid-state technologies

Intel corporation has declared development new perspective interconnections for transistors of the future which will substitute the traditional substances using already more of thirty years. As result of the given researches, experts of Intel have developed and have shown high-powered transistors with a new gate dielectric high-k, and also new alloys for a lock of transistors. New substances will start to use in mass production by 2007. With their help experts calculate considerably to lower current leakage levels in transistors at the expense of what lowering energopotreblenija and selected heat will be provided, and it will allow to create new, high-powered computer units.

Here only some reachings and schedules of corporation of Intel. Many from mentioned, and also the developments not considered here, will be considered at future Forum IDF, which will transit in San Francisco (the USA, California) on February, 17-19th.