Author Archives: Eric Mantion

Geek Week: Intel Helps Make Infrastructure Equipment More Flexible

Datacenter managers have, for years, enjoyed a number of benefits of using Intel Xeon processors in their systems, including better load balancing through virtualization which leads to the ability to very effectively scale up and down a solution so jus… Continue reading

Geek Week: Smarter Small Cells Makes for Better Experiences

Smart phones may be all the rage, but when they are limited by the network, no one is happy. Technologies like 3G, 4G, 4G LTE, and the like may sound great in principle, but sometimes the limitation is not between … Continue reading → Continue reading

Geek Week: Wind River Improves on Android for Automotive

Everyone knows that Android is wildly popular in the mobile phone market. In the course of just a few short years, it went from literally zero (it didn’t exist on the market before October, 2008) to being king of the … Continue reading → Continue reading

Geek Week: Intel and Ericsson Team Up to Make a Brighter Electric Car

Electric cars are nothing new. In fact, just of 100 years ago, they were considered a very reasonable alternative to gasoline powered cars from that era. Then, due to advancements in the internal combustion engine at the time, and other … Continu… Continue reading

Geek Week: M2M Enables Intel to be Inside a Smarter Home

The “Smart Home” is not a new concept. For years, the likes of Popular Mechanics & other similar media outlets would highlight the latest advancement to make your home smarter. But many of those solutions had issues. Recently, Intel worked with… Continue reading

Geek Week: Topsec Leverages Crystal Forest for Better Firewalls

While firewalls are nothing new, the services the provide & the dangers against which they guard are both constantly evolving and changing. That’s why, when Topsec wanted to make a next generation firewall, they turned to the latest Intel platform,… Continue reading

What’s Security Got to Do with It?

The promise of Intelligent Systems is that things all around us will get smarter & make our lives easier. Great! But, as things get smarter, and more connected, the simply MUST also get more secure. Or else, the result is like a jet-powered skatebo… Continue reading

Intel Embedded Research & Education Summit 2012 Full Agenda

Are you interested in learning more about how Intel’s Intelligent System Group collaborates with Universities & Colleges around the world? Here is the full 3-day agenda & associated presentations from the Intel Embedded Research & Education… Continue reading

When Do I Get to Meet KITT?

In the 1980s, the show Knight Rider really opened our minds with what the promise of a more connected car could do. Alas, over the last 3 decades, the cars we drive in the real-world have failed to compare to KITT from that hit TV show. Fortunately, In… Continue reading

Intel Embedded Research & Education Summit 2012 – Day 3

Are you interested in learning more about how Intel’s Intelligent System Group collaborates with Universities & Colleges around the world? Here is the agenda & associated presentations from Day 3 of the Intel Embedded Research & Education S… Continue reading

Intel Embedded Research & Education Summit 2012 – Day 2

Are you interested in learning more about how Intel’s Intelligent System Group collaborates with Universities & Colleges around the world? Here is the agenda & associated presentations from Day 2 of the Intel Embedded Research & Education S… Continue reading

Intel Embedded Research & Education Summit 2012 – Day 1

Are you interested in learning more about how Intel’s Intelligent System Group collaborates with Universities & Colleges around the world? Here is the agenda & associated presentations from Day 1 of the Intel Embedded Research & Education S… Continue reading

When Jedis Go Shopping

Many of use have watched with wonder as Jedis from the popular Star Wars film can, with the use if just their will & “The Force,” move heavy objects (even an X-wing Fighter) through the air. However, while true telekinetics remains within the realm… Continue reading

Tell Intel How Shopping Should Be Smarter

Are you a shopping Ninja? Are your friends amazed by how you always get the best stuff at the best prices, faster than anyone else? Well we think technology can help make your shopping experiences even better, but we want you to help us figure out what should come next! Please share your thoughts with us to make shopping better for everyone! Continue reading

Is Smart Shopping the Latest “Smart” thing to improve your life?

The transition to Smart Shopping can benefit stores and customers alike and this week in New York City, the National Retail Federation is holding their annual big show & Intel is there showing some pretty impressive things. In this post, we share with you some pictures of the different demos we showed along with a video that gives you a feeling for what a cool new demo looks like in action. Continue reading

On MLK Day, All Men are Created Equal, But Clearly Not All Cores

If anyone missed it – Intel released some pretty big news at CES about our “Medfield” (Intel Atom Z2460) processor going into Cell Phones. However, Anand Shimpi from AnandTech.com has released some even MORE interesting information which, when taken together may bust some age-old paradigms around the whole ARM vs Intel debate. Are you ready for a shock? Continue reading

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On MLK Day, All Men are Created Equal, But Clearly Not All Cores

If anyone missed it – Intel released some pretty big news at CES about our “Medfield” (Intel Atom Z2460) processor going into Cell Phones. However, Anand Shimpi from AnandTech.com has released some even MORE interesting information which, when taken together may bust some age-old paradigms around the whole ARM vs Intel debate. Are you ready for a shock? Continue reading

My Highlights from CES 2012

Day one (for me) at CES – wow – what can I say, CES is like falling down the (tech) Rabbit Hole in Alice & Wonderland except on steroids – and then squared. Yes, I know, guilty, I’m an Intel … Continue reading → Continue reading

What I did for Xmas & CES 2012

What did you do for the winter-solstice-adjacent holidays? Did you fly to a Ski resort? Did you drive across town to relatives or friends? Did you go over the river & through the woods to grandmother’s house? Personally, I did … Continu… Continue reading

What I did for Xmas & CES 2012

What did you do for the winter-solstice-adjacent holidays? Did you fly to a Ski resort? Did you drive across town to relatives or friends? Did you go over the river & through the woods to grandmother’s house? Personally, I did … Continu… Continue reading