The shortage of Blu-Ray disc pick up heads is expected to ease in 2007. Lite-On will make the add-on HD DVD player for the Xbox 360. Intel expects to release 45 nm processors in the second half of 2007.

Codenamed Penryn, Intel's first 45nm dual-core design project has already entered a phase of debugging in silicon, when the company manufactures samples for internal use. Penryn will come out in server, desktop and mobile versions, featuring new power management modes and 48 new SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) instructions, called SSE4, specific to multimedia and high-performance computing applications, according to Intel. Compared to the company's current dual-core CPUs based on the Intel Core microarchitecture, it will also have higher core speeds and larger caches.