In a statement here on Thursday, Intel said Prakash would be responsible for the growth of its business through channel distribution, local original equipment manufacturers and multinational corporations (MNCs) in Malaysia.

“Prakash will also focus on driving strategic engagements with the government and ecosystem players as part of efforts to accelerate technology adoption in Malaysia, as well as spearhead market expansion strategies to grow local consumption,” it said.

Prakash said he was excited to be a part of Malaysia‘s growth story.

“With continued collaboration with our customers, government and business partners, I’m confident we’ll be able to significantly contribute towards Malaysia’s goal of becoming a high income, knowledge-based economy,” he said.

Ryaz Patel, outgoing Malaysia country manager, will assume the role of Asia-Pacific MNC sales director.

He will be responsible for continuing to raise information communication technology adoption across Asia-Pacific and increase the region’s role in new areas such as cloud computing.

“It’s been an amazing two years leading the team in Malaysia. I’m confident that Prakash’s leadership will help Intel further support Malaysia’s objectives of pervasive access to broadband.” he said.

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According to The Register,

Today, x64 chip maker Advanced Micro Devices will launch its “Shanghai” quad-core Opteron processors for servers and workstations, concurrent with its annual financial analyst day meeting and ahead of schedule by AMD’s reckoning.

The new chip – which offers more computing power, less heat dissipation, and better bang for the buck than its “Barcelona” replacement – closes some of the gaps that rival Intel has opened up with its Xeon x64 chips. And it gives AMD a chance to get its business back on track and get its server partners somewhat enthusiastic about AMD after a number of them got burned by the chip maker’s delay in getting its initial quad-core chips out the door last year.

That gave Intel an opening to chew into market share gains that AMD made with single-core and dual-core Opterons since the product was launched in April 2003. And with a revamped, Core-based product line, the Xeons certainly have done that, despite some technical reasons why the Opteron design is better.

The Opterons were launched to much fanfare as the first 64-bit x86-compatible processor, and one with a funky interconnect called HyperTransport that looks an awful lot like the QuickPath Interconnect that Intel hopes to start rolling out in servers early next year and which makes its debut in the Core i7 processors any day now. While the tier one server vendors were a little cold to the Opterons at first, IBM played around a bit with one machine, and then Sun Microsystems said it would partner with AMD to create a new “Galaxy” server line, followed by Hewlett-Packard, which created Opteron variants in its ProLiant rack and BladeSystem blade server lines.

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Codenamed Dunnington, it will include all six cores on the same piece of silicon. That’s in contrast to Intel’s quad-core processors, which are split across two separate dies.

The Xeon 7400 Series, to give Dunnington its official title, will sport 16MB of shared level 3 cache and will be backwards compatible with the Xeon 7300 socket.

Intel is pitching the Xeon 7400 as the “virtualisation platform of choice”. It’s expected to give Intel the performance edge over AMD’s “Barcelona” Opteron processors, which have four cores on the same die.

Dunnington will be the last of the Penryn design processors, before the company moves to its Nehalem architecture later this year, which will adopt the company’s new Core i7 branding.

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Here are the price cuts and please note that those are official Intel prices, actual prices will eventually reach those prices than they will be lower than that.

Q6600 From $224 to $193, which is a 13.84% cut.
E8500 From $266 to $183, which is a 31.20% cut
E8400 From $183 to $163, which is a 10.93% cut
E7200 From $133 to $113, which is a 15.04% cut

Q9650, at 3.00Ghz, 12MB cache, 1333Mhz FSB at $530
Q9400, at 2.66Ghz, 6MB cache, 1333Mhz FSB at $266.
E8600, at 3.33Ghz, 6MB cache, 1333Mhz FSB at $266
E7300, at 2.66Ghz, 3MB cache, 800Mhz FSB at 133$

Of course, what’s even better, is to see how fast those price cuts are passed on to you, unlike oil price cuts.

Referring to Yahoo! news,

Intel will release it’s first quad-core processor for laptops next month, rounding out a broad update to its mobile computing platform.

“We’re bringing quad-core to mobile in August,” said Sujan Kamran, regional marketing manager for client platforms at Intel in Singapore. Kamran declined to disclose specifics of the quad-core chip, which will carry Intel’s Core 2 Extreme moniker.

Getting a quad-core processor into a laptop is more about bragging rights than a genuine boost in performance. Very little PC software is designed to take advantage of multiple cores and it’s unclear what performance benefits a quad-core chip would offer over a dual-core chip, such as the 3.06GHz Core 2 Extreme QX9100.

While official details of the upcoming quad-core chip are scarce, Australian PC maker Pioneer Computers is taking preorders for laptops based on an unreleased quad-core mobile chip, the 2.53GHz Core 2 Extreme QX9300.

The chip is advertised as a A$1,449 (US$1,390) upgrade to Pioneer Computers’ DreamBook Style 9008 laptop. But adding a quad-core processor to the laptop doesn’t come cheap: the cost of the upgrade is more than the laptop’s A$1,399 basic price.

Intel officially released its Centrino 2 mobile platform for notebooks July 14, which includes a number of new Core 2 Duo processors, a new chip set and wireless technology that includes support for 802.11 draft-n wireless technologies and WiMax.

The Intel Centrino 2 platform is Intel’s fifth mobile platform and the chip maker is offering two different platforms during this release. The first is Centrino 2 for consumers, and the second is Centrino 2 with vPro that is geared toward enterprise customers.

The launch of Centrino 2 was delayed by about a month after Intel reported some problems with the company’s own integrated graphics and issues related to applying to the Federal Communications Commission for use of the draft-n wireless standards.

Still, the launch is a major event for Intel and shows the importance of notebooks and mobility both with consumers and with the enterprise. Intel is also planning to counter some of the momentum Advanced Micro Devices had when it released its new mobile platform in June.

Mooley Eden, vice president and general manager of Intel’s Platforms Group, emphasized that mobile computing is no longer just about processor performance and battery life. It’s also about style which is transforming the way laptops are being designed and the way vendors are developing slimmer and smaller laptops. This new style is finding its way from the consumer market and into the enterprise with notebooks such as the Lenovo X300.

The Centrino 2 platform also includes a number of other improvements, including support for DDR3 (double data rate 3) memory, which consumes less power and is faster than DDR2 memory.