Based on its timeline, the company is expected to gradually roll out products based on the new 45-nanometer platform in the next six months, with server products coming in first followed by high-end chips for desktops under the codename Penryn family of chips.

By next year, Intel expects to replace the entire architecture — including the chipsets and supporting ecosystem. This two-year cycle — core processors on the first year and the architecture on the second year — is being adopted by Intel in the succeeding years until it reaches the technology limit.

"That’s still in sync with Moore’s Law, which is good for another 10 years," said John Antone, general manager for Intel Asia Pacific, during a recent visit to the country.

Named after Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, Moore’s Law is a high-tech industry axiom that says transistor capacity doubles about every two years at an exponentially decreasing cost.

Intel is drumbeating the 45-nanometer technology as one of the biggest advancements in fundamental transistor design in ten years which makes use of a different transistor material called hafnium.

According to Antone, the new technology will no only allow Intel to continuously deliver record-breaking processor speeds but also reduce the amount of electrical leakage from transistors.

"Usually, the leakage current is one-third of the energy consumed by the processor," he said, adding that Intel started doing demos six months ago of the 45-nm CPUs.

The Philippines, according to Antone and Intel country manager Ricky Banaag, will soon be doing demonstrations as well as various marketing efforts to inform the public of the new technology.

Asked how far can Intel go in shrinking its chip technology, Antone said the next platform — in accordance with Moore’s Law — would be based on 32-nm, then 22-nm, followed by 16 nm, and possibly 10-nm.

The rapid advance of processor technology, the Intel executive said, is the company’s way of adapting to the evolution of the Internet, which continuously offers power-hungry applications to consumers.

The Santa Clara, California-based semicon firm is planning to roll out least fifteen 45-nm processor products. It is currently developing its 45-nm process on 300mm wafers in Hillsboro, Oregon, in a fab with clean-room space equivalent to 3.5 football fields.

Despite the recent discovery of materials suited for chip-making, Antone said silicon remains to be the basic in the manufacturing of processors because of its wide availability.

"Galium arsenide and silicon germanium have superior electrical properties but we still think silicon is still better in terms of its long-term viability," he said.