INTEL PLANS LOW-POWER AND DUAL-CORE CHIPS.

This article reports that Intel Corp. provided details of a microprocessor product to be launched next year. The plan includes a strong focus on lower-power chip options and plans to spend $3 billion for a new chip factory. Intel projects that 85% of all its server processors shipped by the end of 2006 will be dual core. Intel is establishing three Xeon levels based on performance and power dissipation, which is the amount of heat the processor generates. Intel is establishing four lines of server processors with a new numbering system.