Intel aiming for 80-processor chips

San Francisco (dpa) - Intel on Tuesday said it would start selling a computer chip with four processors in November, reclaiming the lead in chip development from its smaller rival Advanced Micro Devices.

Intel, the world's largest chipmaker also plans to manufacture chips with 80 processors on board within five years, Chief Executive Officer Paul Otellini told several thousand attendees at the Intel Developer Forum.

Displaying an early prototype of the 80 processor chip Ottelini said the chips would be capable of exchanging data at a terabyte a second, and will be between 50 and 70 per cent faster that the current dual-core chips, Otellini said, according to the computer news website, Cnet.com.