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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posted by Guest Blogger on April 08, 2008
Last week, the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) was held in Shanghai, China and one of the key messages was that Carry Small, Live Large (CSLL) is a vision held by Intel for future mobile computers. In a nutshell it is the vision of more powerful small form factor devices that are more aware of your environment and offer a more personal interaction with the user. This is a device with rich computing capabilities such as telephony, media, gaming & the Internet to name a few but this isn’t the limit. It is a platform for creating new kinds of applications and interactions as well. For example, you can imagine the new kinds of social networking applications that could be built with this device. Senior Fellow, Kevin Kahn wrote a great blog about CSLL.
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posted by Anwar Ghuloum (葛安华) on April 07, 2008
All the major CPU manufacturers have thrown their lot in with multi-core designs. The (multi-billion dollar) question now is how to program these devices. I can tell you with some confidence that we don’t yet know what the answer will be in 10 years. I can’t imagine that any single company can reliably solve this problem…and I think the Open Source community is essential to finding the answer. The main reason lies in the relatively unexplored territory of how multi-core programming models interact. If I’m preaching to the choir (though not in a Cathedral…see below), feel free to skip the rest of this. However, if you’re still unconvinced, read on. Admittedly, much of this argument is not new, but I think the challenges of multi-core programming create a greater imperative.
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posted by Guest Blogger on April 01, 2008
On the eve of the Intel Developer Forum, Intel held briefings for the press today talking about the latest mobility research effort, which internally is being called Carry Small, Live Large. As part of that briefing, we showed off a new technology demonstration coming from our Mobile Products Group that I captured some video of and thought I’d post since many aren’t able to attend this event in Shanghai.
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posted by Guest Blogger on March 31, 2008
Imagine a day when a single device small enough to fit in your pocket has the power of a laptop and can deliver a rich computing, telephony, media, gaming, and Internet experience. Imagine a day when this device knows your tendencies and preferences and can adapt and optimize its interfaces to match what you are doing at any point any time. Imagine a day when this device is not constrained as a standalone unit, but can dynamically become a hybrid combination of other computing and multimedia devices in close proximity. In the labs at Intel, we have been looking at what makes sense for mobility in the future – a vision we refer to as Carry Small, Live Large.
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posted by Guest Blogger on March 31, 2008
Now we are already in a Multi-core era, dual-core has become mainstream, and some people even have Quad-core CPUs in their desktop PC. But some people still are are not clear if, in the future more cores will benefit them, due to it seems that most of applications they care about have been reasonably fast in Dual-core or Quad-core. The below questions is often asked by people: Will future applications (especially desktop applications) need more cores? and what are those applications? Some people may say HPC, but other people will not be satisfied with the answer due to they are mainly concerning the applications on the PC, and normal people don’t need to run HPC applications on their desktop.
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posted by Jeffrey Foerster on March 28, 2008
This years CES was filled with a variety of wireless display and wireless HDMI solutions using various combinations of radios (proprietary radios in the UWB or 5 GHz unlicensed bands, WiFi-based, UWB/W-USB based, and 60 GHz based) and compression algorithms (uncompressed, proprietary lossless and lossy, JPEG2000 based, and H.264 based). So, it appears there is interest in the industry to enable this usage model, but how can we reign in all this chaos? Clearly, lots of industry harmonization and standards will be needed before this application can really be ubiquitous. There will be a session on wireless displays during the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in April which we hope will spark further discussion and collaboration in this area.
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posted by Guest Blogger on March 27, 2008
Intel is in the enabling game. As a building block supplier, our business is based on the premise that when our customers win, we win, too. We are also in an industry that is constantly pursuing the next big thing to drive new waves of growth and business opportunities. The Mobile Internet Device (MID) category is a candidate for the “next big thing” in mobile computing, although some skeptics question its appeal.
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posted by Roy Want on March 27, 2008
In the last 10 years, personal computing has evolved from being primarily a desktop activity to a highly mobile one: the laptop computer, despite its large size and significant weight, has been the most popular mobile platform to date. While smart phones and MIDs (Mobile Internet Devices) have made in-roads into general computing applications, their use is limited to a few key tasks (e.g., calendar, rolodex, mp3 player) that are suited to the small size of their keypad and screen. However, given ever increasing processing and storage capabilities, the potential of these devices far exceeds the computational needs of these applications, and a significant problem facing the mobile industry is how to give users access to a full personal computing experience with the mobility afforded by a smart phone or MID.
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