Intel projects 400 WiMAX deployments by 2008

SEAN MALONEY told financial analysts at its spring financial bash that by 2008 there will be 400 deployments of WiMAX, providing access to 150 million people.

By 2010, 650 million will be able to access WiMAX facilities and by 2012 Intel estimates 1.3 billion people will be able to use it.

Maloney also talked about the Penryn generation and said that its Xeon quad core Harpertown, due out sometime towards the end of this year, along with the Wolfdale dual core, would give 45 per cent performance improvement on bandwidth applications.

He claimed that compared to AMD, on the multi processor market it was ahead on some benchmarks but behind on others.

But, he claimed, on dual processor servers, and on desktop and notebooks Intel is ahead of AMD.

During the last months Intel has cut its marketing spend by 23 per cent, increased the ratio of field salesfolk to marketing people by 2/3rds, launched eight government PC programmes, and generated six volume orders and 25 "committed pilots" for Intel's education notebook.