Briefly: New Intel chips, the iPhone at CTIA, iTunes "My Alerts" and "Complete My Album"

As promised in our MacScoop V2.0 announcement story, here's a catch-up with the news we might have missed because of our focus on the site's upgrade.

Intel reveals its processors roadmap

This week, Intel has revealed the processors roadmap for the next twelve months.

Among the new products, six Penryn family chips that will remain under the "Core" commercial name and will bring sub-3Ghz clock rates, 2 or 4 cores with respectively 6 or 12MB of L2 cache, native virtualization support, SSE4 instructions, the Enhanced Intel Dynamic Acceleration Technology and the Deep Power Down Technology. In 2008, Intel will produce the Nehalem which will come with 8-cores and beyond. All of them will be produced using the 45nm production process, providing unequaled performance/power usage ratio in the industry.

Some of these chips should be used in the next generations of Apple products. We would rather bet on the chips destined to laptops and Xeons for the Mac Pro/Xserve line-up, time will tell.

The iPhone at CTIA

During the CTIA conference which took place in Orlando this week, AT&T's CEO Randall Stephenson, briefly showed an Apple iPhone he had in his hands and announced that the company has received over one million requests from its customers to be called back for information when the iPhone is available.

The company had provided a form on its web site, suggesting customers to submit their email address so as to get informed when the product is available. This is a sign that Apple's mobile phone could be set for a very successful launch.

BTW, Notice how boring and un-cool this guy is :).

iTunes "My Alerts" and "Complete My Album"

Apple has silently added two new features on its iTunes Store today. The first is called "My Alerts" notifies iTunes customers of new releases for the artists among their purchased songs. The second is "Complete My Album", it provides rebate for albums of which the customers have purchased one or more songs. Apple deducts $0.99 per purchased songs from the album's price.