Intel Corp will launch the next-generation processor in the second half of this year, which is 40 percent faster in games and video playing compared with the latest dual core chip, the world's largest chip firm said Tuesday in Beijing.

Intel will also launch a 300 U.S. dollars Classmate computer in China in the third quarter for students who can't afford mainstream personal computers, the U.S.-based giant said during the Intel Developer Forum.

Intel's 45-nanometer Penryn processors will be the world's most advanced chips, compared with current 60-nm technology. Intel will also deliver a new line of high-end multiprocessor server chips code-named "Caneland" in the third quarter.

"The new chips will multiply our personal capabilities in social networking, PC and TV entertainment, online commerce and other growing demands of the Internet," said Justin Rattner, Intel's chief technology officer.

From this year, Intel will provide chips with improved speed and features every year, like Penryn. It will launch new chips like 32-nm Sandy Bridge in 2010, according to Intel's road-map.

"Intel aims to regain its technology leader position in the industry through the new chips and technologies," said Li Ke, an analyst at Beijing-based CCID Consulting, a research firm under the Ministry of Information Industry.

"In the dual core era, AMD caught up with Intel and succeeded in challenging the monopoly," Li said. AMD refers to chip firm Advanced Micro Devices.

Intel's global market share for CPU (central processing unit) chips was 74.4 percent last year, an 11-year low, against AMD's 25.3 percent, according to U.S. research firm Mercury Research. Intel held an 85 percent market share in 2005.

So far, Intel has invested 3.8 billion dollars in China, including a recently-announced dollars 2.5 billion wafer fabrication plant in Dalian called Fab 68.

"The numbers represent smooth sailing and prosperity in Chinese and they will bring us good luck," Rattner said.

Intel's Classmate computer will launch "in the summer" and Chinese makers TCL, Haier and Founder will manufacture them, said Eric Kim, Intel's senior vice president.