Chipmaker Intel Forms Federal Unit; Scouting Office Space Around DC

Washington, D.C. – The world’s largest computer chip manufacturer Intel Corporation has announced last Tuesday (Aug. 30, 2011) of the creation of a new subsidiary unit called Intel federal which works with federal unit of the U.S. government which will be housed in Washington, DC and with offices in Oregon and California.

Intel’s main focus of the unit is on  the high performance computing segment, including work on exascale computing with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and eventually collaborating with all the branches of the government. The Exascale computers can perform one million trillion calculations per second and will be the fastest and most powerful supercomputer ever built. It will be more than 100 times faster than the current available supercomputer in the market.

“Reaching supercomputer performance levels of a hundred times more powerful than today by 2018 will require the combined efforts of both industry and government,” Kirk Skaugen, vice president and general manager of Intel’s Datacenter and Connected Systems Group, said in a statement.

“The creation of Intel Federal demonstrates the strategic importance of these programs and will give us the ability to establish and maintain the unique processes, procedures and controls needed to develop and manage programs with the government, ” he noted.

Dave Patterson has been appointed as president of Intel Federal LLC. Patterson was previously the President and CEO of Optelecom-NKF Inc. and Intel believes that his experience will bring wide expertise on supercomputer production as well as federal computing on the unit .

Washington, D.C. is a perfect place for the Intel Federal Unit for it belongs in the Beltway area where I.T. industry is growing rapidly and home of successful start up companies.

Read Intel’s Official Press Release for more info:

http://newsroom.intel.com/community/blog