T-minus
posted by Bryan Rhoads on February 28, 2008
I’m kinda mesmerized by our countdown clock…
We’re announcing the name of Intel’s smallest IA processor ever… right here on this very blog when that clock expires.
This got me thinking of NASA and that baritoned announcer who says “T-minus 1 minute and counting…”. Or maybe some of those older Bond films where they’re counting down from some secret island or hidden volcano.
But check this out… NASA has this great site on the famous countdown and each of the milestones that a “T” represents. Now… we’re not getting this fancy, but I’m envious of their ability to plan the launch of a complex space shuttle down to the second.
Intel innovation has helped to enable NASA’s “highly mobile” space program up in space and down here on Earth.
So here’s my prediction*:
The first person to blog from outer-space will do so on one of these new mobile devices powered by this new Intel processor.
Any takers???
*Update: Within 2 nano-seconds… this community informed me that Anousheh Ansari (of Ansari X Prize fame) was the first person to blog from outer space… she did it in August 2006.
But the question remains… what other corners of inner and outer space will these devices penetrate?
Any spelunkers out there? Caves… who has been the deepest blogger and do they need a device? :)
Comments (8)
tagged: 45nm, Atom, Intel, NASA, Silverthorne
Comments
Feb 28 | Brent Logan said:
I suspect we can quibble about how far “outer space” is, but: “Anousheh Ansari boasts many firsts: She’s the first female space tourist, the first astronaut of Iranian descent—and, now, the first civilian to blog from beyond Earth’s orbit.”
http://picks.yahoo.com/picks/i/20060930.html
Feb 28 | Josh Bancroft said:
Hate to burst your bubble, but someone has already blogged from space:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anousheh_Ansari
Anousheh Ansari (of Ansari X Prize fame) did it in August 2006.
http://spaceblog.xprize.org/
I don’t know what kind of computer she used. It wasn’t whatever-Silverthorne-is-going-to-be-branded, but there’s a better than even chance it was an Intel processor. ;-)
Hmm. Now I want to ask her what kind of computer one uses to blog from space… :-)
Feb 28 | Bryan Rhoads said:
Wow… Stand corrected… (man you guys are fast!! and I’m glad I didn’t specify the wager :) )
What other blogging firsts will be acomplished? What about caves???
Any spelunkers out there? Who’s been the deepest blogger?
Feb 28 | Josh Bancroft said:
Curses, Brent! Beat me by six minutes!
Next time we have lunch, I’ll have to slip you something to slow down your reflexes. ;-)
Feb 28 | Ken Kaplan said:
All of this and now I can’t stop the song playing in my head….”Ground control to Major Tom.” This timer is moving WAY too fast. Scary and wonderful. Happy lift off!
Feb 29 | Naveed Iqbal said:
That is a very cool looking chip die. I wonder what those colours signify? Where do the blues and the yellows come from? Can I get my processor in Scarlett Red? :-)
Feb 29 | Naveed Iqbal said:
A quick mouse over on the image reveals the name “Silverthorne”…oops did I just give your secret away ;-) may be not…
Feb 29 | Don said:
dammit, last intel in space i heard about was these old 486-chips the nasa was reported to look after as used ones. back to the integrated graphics likein old times but at far lower energy consumption related to available but poorly scaleable (related to kernels software´ state of the art)processing power. the graphics- embedded P mmx have been absolutely stable, a xp sp 1 on a P1 with 128 mb edo-ram is running flawless for 6+ weeks operaating our sales display, p4 crash in after like max. 2-3 days, only vista holds this by software, so i hope the new all in one-architecture will define the way for more than just this and the next generation of cpu´s.
by the way, did vista sp1 diverse the os into much more kernels with dedicated ram, some kind of virtualisation within itself it hadn´t had before ? i like the minwin-idea, but hell, i got along fine with 1 gb ram until that, now it´s like using my oldest laptop on xp.
Anyways, silverthorne will not be the name it is sold- i suppose it´s fancy and foggy name of a town that may have a nice river to make a new desktop theme of it ;D