ITU TELECOM WORLD, Hong Kong, Dec. 4, 2006 — Intel Corporation today announced building blocks for communication servers that deliver enhanced performance, value and choice for telecommunications equipment manufacturers and computing tasks such as call control, mobile location services and subscriber billing.

The Intel NetStructure® MPCBL0050 Single Board Computer is the first AdvancedTCA* (ATCA) blade server based on the Intel® Core™ microarchitecture. Also unveiled today were the new power-efficient Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processor LV 5138 and LV 5128. These new products are well suited for compute-intensive and space-constrained environments such as telecommunications central offices and datacenters. The fourth product announced is the Intel® Carrier Grade Server TIGW1U, powered by previously launched Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processor LV 5148, which offers customers high performance per watt in a small ruggedized form factor.