News

Intel Spreads Its University Research Bets

Computing in general is increasingly applying the old engineering dictum, divide and conquer. Look at the engines behind cloud computing — vast, distributed armies of server computers. Even at the chip level, the wave of the recent past and the future is, as they say in the industry, multicore — microprocessors with multiple data-processing cores, for lower-power consumption and better performance.

So Intel, the chip giant, has decided to take a more distributed approach to financing university research. The company said this week that it would pour $100 million over the next five years into projects at universities. Each of the projects will involve a few Intel researchers, typically four, with far-flung teams of researchers from several universities.

By STEVE LOHR

Full Story: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/28/intel-spreads-its-university-research-bets/?ref=technology

Posted in:

Sorry, we couldn't find any posts. Please try a different search.

Leave a Comment

You must be logged in to post a comment.