Kevin Kahn on Redefining Mobility: Carry Small, Live Large

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 … Continue reading

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Yimin Zhang on Why do we need many-core?

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, … Continue reading

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Wireless Displays: To Compress or Not Compress

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 … Continue reading

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Vic Lortz on Amplifying your Mobile Experience

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 … Continue reading

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Dynamic Composable Computing (DCC)

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 … Continue reading

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Introducing two “Universal Parallel Computing Research Centers”

Today, it’s a pleasure for me to report that Intel and Microsoft are joining forces to accelerate the mainstream adoption of highly parallel computing technology. Together, the two companies are pioneering the concept of industry-funded “Universal Parallel Computing Research Centers” … Continue reading

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Andrew Chien on UPCRC is a Major Commitment to Long-range Parallel Computing Research

I can’t help but feel the excitement and optimism that accompanies the launching of a bold new venture which will involve nearly 90 talented researchers focused on parallel computing. We’ve got great partners in Microsoft, Berkeley, and Illinois, an exciting … Continue reading

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Interview with Dave Patterson, Krste Asanovic and Kathy Yelick at Berkeley UPCRC Lab

While I was at our Berkely lablet open house in early March, I had a chance to interview some of the folks involved in the UPCRC lab on the UC Berkeley campus. It was exciting to learn more about this … Continue reading

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“Automated sports highlights” demo video

I wanted to share a video of some of the application research we have going on at our Intel China Research Center in the area of video mining. In collaboration with Tsinghua University, Yimin Zhang and his team at ICRC … Continue reading

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Stefano Pellerano on 60 GHz Radios

Wireless is cool. But nobody wants a slow wireless connection. However, fast wireless means large bandwidth and in today’s crowded spectrum bandwidth is a scarce resource. Recently, 60GHz radio (often referred to as mm-wave radio) has attracted the attention of … Continue reading

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