Performance, Power And The Platform
White Papers Intel fellow and director of microprocessor research Shekhar Borkar recently sat down to discuss how Intel researchers plan to achieve new levels of microprocessor performance and power efficiency. In this paper, Borkar explains how Intel...
[August 8, 2007, 2:26]
Intel: Multicore Chips Outstripping Software
News Speaking to a small group of reporters on Friday, Borkar said that there are other options. The software has to also start following Moore's Law," Intel fellow Shekhar Borkar said, referring to the notion that chips offer roughly double the...
[May 29, 2007, 13:05]
Intel Unveils Chip Ideas At The Cutting Edge
News Among the goodies was a 64-bit arithmetic logic unit -- one of the basic building blocks of processors -- which was "the fastest so far, running 20 percent faster with 56 percent lower energy," according to Shenkar Borkar, director of Circuit...
[February 17, 2004, 16:45]
Intel Unveils Glimpse Of Chip Future
News There is no guarantee that any of these exact inventions will get embodied in future products, said Shekhar Borkar, director of circuit research at Intel. Compared with existing Intel ALUs, the prototype unit increases performance by 20 percent and...
[February 17, 2004, 7:30]
How To Make Hot Chips That Stay Cool
News They're more like dimmers than switches, said Borkar. With the combination of all of the above techniques, Borkar said, Intel is confident of reaching its 1TIPS target by 2010 without burning out. The example Borkar showed was a circuit that...
[September 10, 2004, 10:35]
Moore's Law To Roll On For Another Decade
News General-purpose hardware is generally not power-efficient," Borkar said. One proposed solution is to create subsections in chips, dedicated to specific tasks such as handling network protocols or multimedia calculations, said Shekhar Borkar, an...
[February 11, 2003, 7:59]
Chip Designers Voyage To Voltage Island
News But "there is no magic bullet," said Shekhar Borkar, an Intel research fellow. When combined with Intel's recent advances in transistor design and packaging, Borkar said, these new techniques can create chips that are 20 percent to 30 percent...
[June 10, 2002, 12:18]
