posted by Justin Rattner on July 31, 2008
Voltage and power reductions in our products come from a broad engagement between process, design and architecture. For our latest 45nm products, the careful design of the SRAM cell and our invention of high-k metal gate transistors were key contributors to reducing minimum voltages. Previously, I wrote about the Climate Savers Computing Initiative and our research to achieve efficiency gains at the platform level.
Beyond energy efficient design lays the notion of powering our processors and chipsets over a much wider range of voltages. Let me share with you some important research we have underway that may lead to dramatic improvements in the dynamic operating range of our products.
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posted by Cheryl Miller on July 20, 2008
Now that the dust has settled from the 6th Annual Research At Intel Day press event, I am still amazed at the breadth and variety of research projects that were on display. Researchers from Israel, China, Russia and the US brought their ideas to the Computer History Museum on June 11. The contrast between the historic computing artifacts and the possible future of technology was really inspiring.
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posted by Anwar Ghuloum (葛安华) on June 30, 2008
Generally speaking, you don’t want to deliver any kind of difficult news to customers, partners, etc. Some of us are lucky enough to talk to folks about the performance and capabilities of our processors, shipping and soon-to-ship. Some of us, however, face a somewhat more challenging situation: explaining how to tap into this performance. I find myself in this situation often, as I frequently talk to external developers about our ongoing research in programming for multi-core and terascale. The discussion typically goes in one of two directions (the relative distribution has changed over time).
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posted by Guest Blogger on June 16, 2008
Intel’s Secure Digital Wallet (SDW) research enables the users to manage their credentials for various banks, e-commerce websites, e-mail servers on Intel laptops, desktops and MIDs so that their susceptibility to identity fraud is minimized. Identity fraud is one of the ways by which the criminals on the Internet steal innocent user’s credentials and use it for illegitimate purposes. Criminals can steal credit card numbers to buy things on the Internet and tarnish our credit history. It can take a few days to a few months with lots of pain for the owner of the card to recover from such misuse. In the extreme cases the damage done could be irreparable.
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posted by Guest Blogger on June 13, 2008
We have seen regular reports from security vendors of malware becoming increasingly stealthier and polymorphic. Most countermeasures have focused in the area of reactive approaches such as anti-virus scanning, which doesn’t help much here. Intrusion prevention systems help, but are susceptible to attacks themselves – this is a problem since the protection and the attacks are operating in a level playing field! We have been analyzing these types of attacks in our lab and have approached the mitigation of this problem from a different view of protecting the applications in-place such that malware may still execute but will not have any negative impact on the security of the application. What we mean by in-place, is that the applications do not have to change their programming model or use of OS services, instead the program is protected in the environment within which it executes. Given these advanced attacks, in-place protection is important to today’s critical applications!
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posted by Guest Blogger on June 11, 2008
Second Life® and World of Warcraft® are among the most prominent MMOGs. They demand lots of computing power – both from the CPU and Graphics. These demands overload any mobile device of today or near future, even including MIDs. By the time the mobile clients have caught up, the performance requirements for MMOGs will grow higher yet.
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posted by Megan Langer on May 31, 2008
Ever wonder where ideas for technologies like USB, 802.11n, PCI, or Serial ATA come from? Or maybe you’ve heard of the free application MashMaker that lets you create your own version of Web pages combining the information you want from multiple sites into one, putting it all together at once on your computer screen. Many of them had their genesis in Intel’s R&D labs.
We often have our own “science fairs” at Intel, for sharing research internally with product groups. But once a year we open our doors to media, giving the public a glimpse into Intel and the potential for technology near and far-out future. That event is coming up on June 11th and we’ll be creating an online experience here at this blog and in the special press room site. There will be plenty of photos and videos to feel like you were there which will be updated in coming week and in real time on June 11th.
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posted by Cheryl Miller on May 19, 2008
I had a chance to chat with Justin Rattner, Intel CTO, as he reflected on Intel’s first 40 years and looked ahead to the next 40 years. He says instead of technology being an evolution over time, big revolutionary changes tend to happen in rapid “giant leaps”. He thinks the next major leap will be in the human interface with technology, with potential future breakthroughs in processing that would have the physical boxes of computers disappear into the fabric of our daily lives. Watch this video to hear Justin describe it himself:
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posted by Guest Blogger on May 05, 2008
The continued growth of data rates in servers, routers and high-bandwidth computing systems has led to an increased interest in optical backplanes for these applications. Data rates in the backplane are increasing to several Gbps/channel and higher. The trend to multi-core and many core processors is an additional factor contributing to increasing bandwidth demands. Electrical interconnects pose serious challenges at bit rates at 10’s of Gb/s, optical links can alleviate many of these difficulties by improving bandwidth-length products and eliminating electromagnetic interference. There is a growing research effort to enable the move from the electrical to the optical domain.
View poster from recent lab open house event.
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posted by Roy Want on April 09, 2008
One of the great computing revolutions of our time has been the dramatic reduction in size of processing components and the power they consume, making mobile computing a reality. The term mobile computer spans many types of devices, from laptop or notebook computers—now central to much of our work—to the smallest cell phones, which can not only provide a mundane telephone connection but also serve as an electronic organizer. The PDA, also originally part of this mobile revolution, has already largely been subsumed by the smart-phone market.
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