Digital Enterprise Group
Digital Enterprise Group
The Digital Enterprise Group offers products that are incorporated into desktop and nettop computers, enterprise computing servers and workstations, a broad range of embedded applications, and other products that help make up the infrastructure for the Internet. DEG's products include microprocessors and related chipsets and motherboards designed for the desktop and enterprise computing market segments; microprocessors and chipsets for embedded applications; components for communications infrastructure equipment, such as network processors; wired connectivity devices; and products for network and server storage.
Desktop Market Segment
Our current desktop microprocessor offerings include the:
- Intel® Core™ i7 processor Extreme Edition
- Intel® Core™ i7 processor
- Intel® Core™ 2 Extreme processor
- Intel® Core™ 2 Quad processor
- Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor
- Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core processor
- Intel® Celeron® Dual-Core processor
- Intel® Celeron® processor
- Intel® Atom™ processor
Most of these Intel Core microarchitecture-based processors are manufactured using our 45nm Hi-k metal gate silicon technology (45nm process technology). We offer desktop microprocessors at a variety of price/performance points, from the high-end Intel Core i7 processor Extreme Edition—a quad-core processor based on our latest generation Intel Core microarchitecture designed for processor-intensive tasks in demanding multitasking environments—to the Intel Celeron processor designed to provide value, quality, and reliability for basic computing needs. In addition, we offer the Intel Atom processor designed for low-power and affordable Internet-focused devices. The related chipsets for our desktop microprocessor offerings primarily include Intel® 4 Series Express Chipsets, Intel® 3 Series Express Chipsets, and Intel® 900 Series Express Chipsets.
We also offer processor technologies based on our microprocessors, chipsets, and motherboard products that are optimized for the desktop market segment. For business desktop PCs, we offer the Intel® Core™2 Duo processor with vPro™ technology and the Intel® Core™2 Quad processor with vPro™ technology, which are designed to provide increased security and manageability, energy-efficient performance, and lower cost of ownership.
Our new product offerings in 2008 and early 2009 include:
- The Intel Core i7 processor family, including the Intel Core i7 processor Extreme Edition, based on our latest generation Intel Core microarchitecture, and designed for high-performance, power-efficient computing.
- Intel Atom processors designed for low-power and affordable Internet-focused devices.
- Intel 4 Series Express Chipsets designed to be used with 45nm Intel Core 2 Duo and Intel Core 2 Quad processors, helping to improve mainstream desktop system performance, energy efficiency, and video and sound quality.
- Desktop motherboards that support a new generation of Intel® vPro™ technology for business desktop PCs with enhanced manageability and security features.
Enterprise Market Segment
Our current server and workstation microprocessor offerings include the Intel® Xeon® processor and the Intel® Itanium® processor. Our Intel Xeon processor family of products supports a range of entry-level to high-end technical and commercial computing applications such as IP data centers. Compared to our Intel Xeon processor family, our Intel Itanium processor family generally supports an even higher level of reliability and computing performance for data processing, handling high transaction volumes, and other compute-intensive applications for enterprise-class servers, as well as supercomputing solutions. Servers, which usually have multiple microprocessors or cores working together, manage large amounts of data, direct data traffic, perform complex transactions, and control central functions in local and wide area networks and on the Internet. Workstations typically offer higher performance than standard desktop PCs and are used for applications such as engineering design, digital content creation, and high-performance computing.
Our new product offerings in 2008 and early 2009 include:
- Low-voltage Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors based on our 45nm process technology.
- Intel Xeon processors designed to reduce the use of environmentally sensitive materials.
- Intel Xeon processors with up to six processing cores and 16 megabytes (MB) of shared cache memory. These processors are built using our 45nm process technology, and are designed for high-end servers with up to 16 processor sockets.
Embedded and Communications Market Segments
We offer microprocessors and chipsets for embedded applications, and components—such as network processors—for communications infrastructure equipment.
Our new product offerings in 2008 and early 2009 include:
- Quad-Core and Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors for embedded market segments, based on our 45nm process technology. These processors are designed for storage, router, security, medical, communications, and other high-performance, memory-intensive applications.
- Intel Atom processors designed for embedded applications such as in-vehicle information/entertainment systems, portable point-of-sale retail devices, and industrial robotics.
- A new category of highly integrated, purpose-built System on Chip (SoC) products designed for embedded security, storage, communications, and industrial robotic applications. SoC products integrate core processing functionality with specific components, such as graphics, audio, and video, onto a single chip with reduced power consumption and size. These SoC products are based on Intel® architecture.