According to a recent statement of Paul Otellini, CEO at Intel, the company is planning to invest a stunning $2 billion in order to accelerate the development process of the new 32-nanometer CPUs. Intel plans to roll out the first generation of the new 32nm chips sometime in September 2009.

The company’s initiative means that AMD is virtually left in the dust, as the Sunnyvale-based company has just released its first generation of CPUs with the 45-nanometer architecture, the Phenom II. Analysts had believed that the release of the Phenom II processors meant that AMD was narrowing the gap between it and Intel, but it seems that developers in Santa Clara have big plans for the following two years.

According to Otellini’s statements, Intel will release two processor models within the 32nm Westmere family this fall, a dual-core, named Clarkdale, and a six-core, named Gulftown. Intel will take the integrated memory controller from the bigger sibling, the 45nm Nehalem. However, the company will also integrate a graphics controller, which is a first for Intel processors. Clarkdale family processors will be released in September and the Gulftown is expected to hit the shelves in 2010. Intel is also preparing mobile version of the Clarkson family processors, which are named Arrandale.

Many financial analysts were quite surprised to learn that Intel is investing $2 billion in new technologies while many companies struggle to keep their costs to the minimum. Still, when the company releases the Westmere processors, AMD will be virtually forced to respond by updating their line-up to the newest processor architecture.