Silicon.com has a hot news item about Skype and Intel.

Intel senior vice president Pat Gelsinger said on Wednesday that the two companies were working together at the research and development level to build what he called "good business-class audio", for voice over IP networks.

"I'm happy to announce a partnership between Intel and Skype to make their clients better on our platforms using our software technology, codec technology [encoding and decoding software], and our dual-core platforms," he said during his keynote at the Intel Developer Forum. The collaboration will lead to "improvements in the number of participants in calls and the quality of calls as well", he added.

Notice this partnership does not include Global IP Sound as pointed out in the Skype Forum here by muppetmaster.

Anyone know more about this announcement? Did any of our readers attend the Intel Developers Conference?