Having just beaten Israel to emerge as Intel’s largest design centre outside the US, India centre is now learnt to be working on designing a future Xeon processor code-named "Whitefield" (after a suburb in Bangalore) completely in India.
Whitefield is a low-power multicore Xeon processer that places four mobile Banias cores around a shared Level 2 cache. The chip will arrive sooner than we expected last week; our sources say 2006. This chimes with predictions made by Intel India's President Ketan Sampat, who said customers could expect a new Xeon out of India by 2005 or 2006 on a 65 nanometer process.
The Economic Times has a report. El Reg on the other hand covered this story in May - here and here.
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