Live Blog: IDF 2009 Opening Keynote with Paul Otellini

posted by Aiden Bordner on September 22, 2009

[10:00] And that’s it! Paul has wished us an enjoyable IDF, and the keynote is concluded. See you around the forum!

[9:59] We’re seeing a video produced that incorporates some of the suggestions. Very cool. Quotes range from “I want my computer to fix itself,” to “I want a taxi service that knows when I arrive.”

[9:58] Paul is closing on a discussion of what opportunities this continuum presents to developers. He’s talking about the Sponsors of Tomorrow digital billboards that ran in major cities (such as New York’s Times Square). The billboards allowed people to submit, via text message, what they wanted from technology in the future. Over 24,000 ideas were submitted per day. Paul said they found the ideas “inspiring.”

[9:54] Paul is closing the discussion of products on data center technology. The emphasis is on supporting the emerging trend of cloud computing platforms. He says this is specifically what Nahalem was built for.

[9:52] Moblin is said to be ready for the release of Moorstown, and they are showing demos here at IDF.

[9:51] Claire Alexander, the design and user experience lead for the Moblin UI, has come out on stage to demonstrate a MID running the new experience. Very impressive is the “Zone Panel,” which allows quick multi-tasking.

[9:48] Final Intel® Atom™ processor discussion is regarding handhelds. We’re seeing a video of the new Moblin 2.1 user interface. It looks pretty neat—very modern and attractive.

[9:46] We’ve moved on to discussing the role of the Intel® Atom™ processor for In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI), which Paul expressed he feels is a growth industry in the years to come.

[9:43] Paul is announcing that Intel is launching a new developer program, specifically for Atom application developers. It’s going to work on Windows, Mobiln and major runtimes, and there is going to be an application marketplace. It’s being supported by Asus, Acer and Dell, and we have some videos from their respective CEOs expressing their investment.

[9:39] Paul is talking about the development effort now, and the goal of being able to write once, and then publish to multiple devices. He’s started talking about the new possibilities made possible with Intel® Atom™ processors, and the various partners helping to make that happen.

[9:37] Now we’re seeing some mobile device technology, such as video conferencing on a MID, made possible by Intel architecture, such as video conferencing on a MID. Paul wraps this up explaining that this is the goal in building the continuum of computing: the same experience, the same architecture, with the experience simply scaled to the device.

[9:34] The high-end desktop is running Sandybridge! Very cool, we’re seeing a running system that’s two generations ahead.

[9:32] Now onto consumer. Art has come out on stage and is demonstrating interoperability between a few different consumer devices (a MID, a laptop, and a high-end desktop), running various builds of Windows.

[9:27] First up in the PC demos is Enterprise, focusing on new security tech. Andy has come out on stage. He’s delivered a remote “poison pill” to an enterprise laptop from his MID that essentially bricked the entire system, including hard disk function, until it was returned to an IT manager. Very neat.

[9:25] We’ve moved on to talking about specific products, and starting with PC processors. The Intel Core™ i7/i5/i3 branding is going to stick around, representing the various levels of the offering.

[9:23] He’s wrapping up his discussion of the fundamentals of the continuum of computing with software, and how today we have the same development tools across several device types.

[9:20] We’ve moved on from Moore’s law to architecture, specifically Systems-on-Chip (SoC). We’re seeing a slide explaining that, with new Intel architecture, unprecedented flexibility between performance and efficiency can be achieved with the same architecture.

[9:15] He’s been explaining how Intel has continued on a relentless pursuit of Moore’s Law, continuing a two-year cadence of reducing transistor size. He’s touched on the forthcoming 32nm architecture, and has showed us a picture on the slide! Apparently this is the first time a photo of the 32nm transistor has been revealed.

[9:10] Paul is talking about how IDF has changed as the technology has expanded. When it began in 1997, IDF was largely a PC event, but today there are people from several industries. “While Moore’s Law is predictable, the continuum is not,” he says.

[9:06] After a very nice intro video, CEO Paul Otellini has taken the stage. He’s talking about how Intel architecture is moving into places beyond the PC, such as consumer electronics and handhelds.

[9:00] They’ve dimmed the lights, right on time. Sean Maloney (Executive Vice President General Manager, Intel Architecture Group) has taken the stage to start. He’s giving a brief introduction to the events of the week, the social networking activities happening at IDF, and some of the sessions.

[8:55] We’re about 10 minutes from the keynote starting. People are starting to file into the ballroom here at the lovely Moscone Center West.

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