Dadi Perlmutter Keynote

IDF 08-27-06 Afternoon session
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we are going to end this year with 90 percent of our products
shipped in [performance to be] dual-core. This is really great
because we are going to continue on a promise of
uncompromised performance in notebooks, and to match
whatever you have in mainstream desktops.
Last IDF, we stood here and in other places around the globe,
and we promised that in the summer, we will have our Core 2
Duo technology, leading-edge microprocessor technology into
our Core Duo [unintelligible] Centrino duo platforms. And we did
just that. A few weeks ago we launched this product. It's a
marvel, it's a breakthrough in power performance, it delivers 20
percent more performance than Core Duo in the same power
envelope. And not [eating] anything on battery life. This is
clearly getting wonderful remarks from the press and from the
industry about the goodness. And I [join you to read with me]
and enjoy, as I'm enjoying these wonderful remarks that this
microprocessor is getting from the press. This is really the best
microprocessor in the world.
But we don't stand still. We do not want to sit on our laurels and
say this is it. We continue to move on, and our next big move is
going to be in the first half of next year with our Santa Rosa
platform. It launches many new things. It's going to use the Core
2 Duo that we just launched, but it's going to come with some
enhancements that are enabled only at Santa Rosa. On top of
that, it comes up with new technology chip set, graphics, new
communication, wireless communication in a wide, broad range