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Intel looks to Spain for innovation 
Wednesday, May 29 2002
by Andrew McLindon


The world's leading chipmaker, Intel, is to establish an R&D centre in Spain with
the aim of developing faster and more efficient microprocessors. 

Intel said on Tuesday that it had signed an agreement with the Universitat
Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC) in Barcelona that will see UPC operate a research
centre, Intel Labs Barcelona, on behalf of the chipmaker. The centre will be
opened later this year. Intel declined to discuss how much it was investing in
the centre. 



According to both parties, the centre will be home to Intel's microprocessor
researchers, as well as researchers from UPC's Computer Architecture Department.
The two groups will collaborate on research into advanced microprocessor
technologies for future Intel Itanium processor and Intel Pentium processor
family designs. Research and development efforts will focus on increasing
processor performance, reducing power consumption and extending battery life. 



"Relationships with leading international universities expose Intel to
ground-breaking R&D occurring throughout the world and gives us access to top
researchers on a global scale," said Intel's vice president and chief technology
officer, Patrick Gelsinger in a statement. "UPC has a group of highly talented
researchers -- renowned experts in their field -- who have a track record in
leading-edge microarchitectural research." 



Maria Marced, Intel's vice president, sales and marketing group, and general
manager, EMEA, said that the investment in UPC would give the company
"unprecedented access to the best ideas Europe has to offer."



The Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya is one of the largest technical
universities in Spain with approximately 30,000 undergraduates. Its dedicated
Computer Architecture Department, with about 70 full-time faculty members
focusing on computer engineering and telecommunications engineering, performs
research in areas ranging from VLSI Systems Design to Processor Microarchitecture
and Code Generation. 



Intel has been funding university research since 1980. Intel currently oversees
and supports research projects in more than 75 universities around the world.
Typically, the company adopts a technology in its own research labs only after it
has been proven by university research. 



The center will be led by three professors from UPC: Antonio Gonzalez, who has
been a microarchitecture researcher for more than 16 years, and Roger Espasa and
Toni Juan, experts on 64-bit processors.