News Intel Pulls In "Vanderpool" Tech To 2005

In a change from the norm, Chipzilla brings the release date of it's multi OS tech forward, according to this ExtremeTech story:

Intel Corp. said Thursday that its "Vanderpool" virtualization technology would appear in processors and chipsets this year, rather than in 2006.

Vanderpool, part of Intel's so-called "T's" (technologies), was originally slated to appear in the Longhorn timeframe, the code-name for Microsoft's next-generation OS due in 2006. Intel also released a preliminary external Vanderpool specification to encourage work among developers.

Intel said the Vanderpool technolgy would be released in 2005, and then achieve "broader growth" in 2006. Historically, that means that Vanderpool technology will appear on a processor or two at the high end of the pricing spectrum, moving into cheaper, more popular processors later.

The Vanderpool technology allows two operating systems to run simultaneously on top of a single processor. In demonstrations, Intel has shown Windows and Linux running side-by-side on the same system, with a user able to quickly swap between the two. In the meantime, OEMs have begun providing Linux in a pre-boot environment to quickly give users access to basic multimedia functions without having to wait a minute or so to boot into the Windows environment.

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