Intel this week introduced five mobile chips, four server processors and seven desktop products. This new nano-range of products is completely lead and halogen free. Intel has expressed its commitment for environment concerns this way.

Intel says,” these products deliver higher power-to-performance ratios by packing more transistors in a chip by shrinking their size to 45 nm. The previous generation chips had 60-nm transistors”.

Intel is launching this range of nano-products at the ‘International Consumer Electronics show, Las Vegas’. The company will also announce the hardware and software partners that have agreed to support Intel’s upcoming platform, “Menlow”, for mobile Internet devices.

Intel is about to begin with the production of” Menlow”. “This will include a new low-power 45-nm processor packages codenamed Silverthorne, this quarter”, said Anand Chandrasekher, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Intel’s ultra mobility group.

In addition to this, Intel is also manufacturing processors and chipsets for set-top boxes and digital video recorders. The platform will be based upon the application of the ‘Menlow Technology’. However this would be marketed with different names.

Intel’s latest mobile processors are available with the company’s dual-core Centrino platform for notebooks. This already available ‘Centrino’ platform includes the Intel 965 Express chipset also. Customers have an option with the platform that has a third-party decoder for better performance in playing high-definition content in either HD DVD or Blu-ray format and support for 802.11n wireless networks.

Intel’s most recent range based on the ‘Deep Power Down Technology’ greatly reduces the power consumption of individual cores of a multi-core processor when they’re not in use. In addition, the platform applies Intel’s new SSE4 instruction set, leading to faster processing of workloads, such as high-definition video encoding and photo manipulation.

Apple would be the best beneficiary of the Intel’s nano-range of products, specifically the mobile chips. Industry experts and speculators are also expecting that Apple would be introducing a new ‘MacBook’ or some other handheld computer during the later half of this month.

Intel’s ‘Menlow Technology’ based nano-range of mobile chips and other products will also facilitate the mainstream desktop including three Core 2 quad-core processors and four Core 2 dual-core products. These new nano- processors will also feature a range of clock speeds, and up to 6 Mbytes of Level 2 cache.

Intel began shipping of the 45-nm processors during the last week of December 2007 beating the arch rival, the ‘Advanced Micro Devices’ (AMD). AMD has announced its plans to start shipping of its 45-nm products towards the closure of the first quarter this year. AMD’s nano-range has been code named as ‘Shanghai’ and, AMD’s quad-core microprocessor is expected to be a server product under the ‘Opteron’ brand.