P.M. BRIEFING : Intel Lists ‘Supercomputer on Chip’

Intel Corp. has developed a “supercomputer on a chip” that will be offered as the basis for a new line of high-speed computers, a senior Intel executive disclosed today.

Intel’s N-10 chip is the main source of excitement at the Integrated Solid State Circuits Conference in New York, the biggest research meeting of the year for the world semiconductor industry. Intel was not permitted to discuss the commercial uses of the new chip in its technical presentation today. In an interview afterward, however, Intel Senior Vice President David House said the company sees the N-10 as the basis for a major new line of computers.