“research” Tag

05/05/2008: Madeleine Glick on Polymer waveguides for high speed board-level optical interconnects

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...

04/09/2008: Carry Small, Live Large

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...

04/08/2008: Lester Memmott on Context Aware Computing

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...

03/31/2008: 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...

03/31/2008: 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,...

03/28/2008: 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...

03/27/2008: 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...

03/27/2008: 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...

03/19/2008: 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”...

03/19/2008: 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...

03/19/2008: 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...

03/17/2008: "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...

03/13/2008: 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...

03/12/2008: Hasnain Lakdawala on a spectrum sensing, reconfigurable ADC

One of the consequences of widespread use of wireless is that the spectrum is getting crowded. Radio standards must be designed to operate under this rather hostile environment with the presence of a lot of blocking signals in the channels...

03/10/2008: Yorgos Palaskas on a 65nm CMOS Power Amplifier for multi radio

Power amplifiers are used in wireless systems to transmit the desired information from the user device to the base station. Power amplifiers used in cellular systems typically deliver significant amounts of power (~1Watt) in order to be able to communicate...

02/11/2008: WiFi/WiMAX Heterogeneous Seamless Handover

At the Mobile World Congress which begins today in Barcelona, Intel will be showing a demo of our research to perform a heterogeneous seamless handover between a WiFi and WiMAX network. In this blog I will describe our research work...

02/03/2008: Krishnamurthy Soumyanath on ISSCC: Research steps to a Digital Multi Radio

Wireless communication is growing so fast that soon it might be difficult to get a decent wireless connection at your favorite coffee shop. At the Communications Circuits Lab of Intel Corporation, we have been doing research on techniques that will...

11/28/2007: From Extreme to Mainstream

This post originally appeared on our China Research blog on 10 October. At every US IDF, the keynote speech on the first day is by our CEO to talk about the vision for technology and its application. This year’s theme,...

10/24/2007: Robotics, Earthquakes, cancer research….Intel?

Intel Research Pittsburgh Lab opened doors today to academia, press and just about anyone in the general Pittsburgh public who wanted to stop by. The open house buzzed with enthusiasm from an estimated nearly 200 attendees about the advancements the...

10/17/2007: You’re Not Paranoid; They Really Are Watching You!

Security and privacy are hot topics to consider when designing pervasive computing systems. Hot is the operative word, because if you compromise security or privacy, you’ll likely upset a lot of people, and a heated discussion will ensue. I doubt...

10/14/2007: Wireless Co-existence: Helping radios get along with each other

Let’s take this opportunity to talk about wireless co-existence, an issue that begins to draw broad attention in the mobile communication industry, an issue that will help shape the system and architecture design of mobile device and infrastructure for years...

10/10/2007: Real Time Ray-Tracing: The End of Rasterization?

The title seems rather provocative, but PC Perspective seems to think that this is a definite possibility. But is it…? I’d like to explore the current state-of-the-art in real time ray-tracing, based on what has been shown at last months...

09/21/2007: Rattner's Virtual World's Keynote: Research Reflections on IDF Day 3

Thursday, our CTO Justin Rattner gave a keynote on virtual worlds and the emergence of what he called the 3D Internet. The 3D Internet Rattner described is the mushrooming social world of multiplayer online games, of complex animations for medicine...

09/20/2007: Tera-scale Demos at IDF

Following up on Brian’s post yesterday, here’s some pics and info on the Tera-scale demos we have here at IDF....

09/19/2007: Research Reflections on IDF - Day 2

Here at IDF - Day 2, the technology showcase is going full steam. With lunch being served in the showcase area it is a certain draw for the attendees - kind of like a massive lunch and learn. In the...

09/18/2007: Research Reflections on IDF – Day 1

Your two editors, Sean and I are here in San Francisco for the 2007 IDF. We will do a daily post to showcase highlights of the day and how the research labs are helping lead the way for innovation in...

09/16/2007: Mashups for the Masses

The following post is from a guest contributor to the research blog. This post comes from researcher Rob Ennals who is the project lead on Intel Mash Maker. Rob is based in our Intel Research lab in Berkeley. Prior to...

09/14/2007: Improving Energy Efficiency across the Technology Ecosystem

At my Spring 2007 IDF keynote I said that in order to create a new product line for ultra-mobile devices, we have to create processors and chipsets that collectively reduce power by a factor of ten. Taking 2006 as the...

09/11/2007: Tera-scale for laptops?

Recently I was looking over some slides by Intel Fellow Vivek De, which he has put together for his Intel Developer Forum session next week on “Energy Management Innovations for Future Multi-Core Processors.” In the presentation I saw a few...

09/10/2007: Making “virtual” more real

Within the Intel labs we were shocked by the public reaction to our 80 core disclosure last spring. The interest level was astounding, but after the initial discussions (around core type, how they were arranged/interconnected, power vs. teraflops, and the...

08/29/2007: Enabling wireless broadband technology

By John Du, reposted from our Chinese language blog. In my past posts, I’ve talked about Tera-scale computing. Intel has been doing research in both software and hardware on future processor platforms with 10s to 100s of cores. Our objective...

08/08/2007: A follow-up on the the 40G Modulator

First of all, I’d like to thank every one for sending their comments to my blog “Announcing 40 Gb/s silicon optical modulator.” I will take this opportunity to try to address some of the issues raised in your comments....

07/24/2007: Announcing the world's first 40G silicon laser modulator!

In this blog, I would like to share with you our recent breakthrough in Silicon Photonics research at Photonics Technology Lab of Intel, a laser modulator that encodes optical data at 40 billion bits per second. Here I am holding...

07/19/2007: Virtual worlds, 80 cores, and 20,000 golden pigs

Why show 20,000 golden pigs to a select group of 85 press and analysts? Because it was a cool way to show both a future application capability (massive collision detection) and a new parallel programming environment called Ct, i.e. C...

07/17/2007: Inside an 80-core chip: the on-chip communication and memory bandwidth solutions

By John Du, reposted from our Chinese language blog. Here I would like to discuss about some hot technical topics. About tera-scale, some readers of the Chinese blog made comments about the communication and the memory bandwidth solutions. I would...

07/11/2007: Inside Intel's Silicon Photonics Labs

In my first blog, I have already explained to you what “Silicon Photonics” is all about. You may be curious about what Intel scientists were doing in Silicon Photonics research and how hybrid silicon laser recently announced by Intel and...

07/10/2007: What would you do with 80 cores?

When talking to folks about tera-scale computing research or the 80-core research chip, the question inevitably arises as to what general users would really be able to do with “supercomputer-level” performance in a desktop, let alone a mobile device. And...

06/27/2007: Research at Intel Day highlight video

Following up on Brian’s post yesterday, here’s a video showing highlights from Research@Intel day last week....

06/26/2007: Fair Online Gaming aka "Anti-Cheat"

In my previous post, I briefly mentioned the “anti-cheat” demo that was presented at Research@Intel Day. Our researchers refer to it as Fair Online Gaming. This post comes to you from Travis Schluessler, one of our research scientist and an...

06/26/2007: Hello, Intel Labs...Yea, we do that

Last Wednesday, June 20th, we held our 5th annual Research @ Intel day . This is a day where we open our doors to the press and analyst communities and share with them the research that is being conducted in...

06/25/2007: What's in a research blog header?

First, I want to thank you for taking the time to read this blog. Brian McCarthy and I will be taking on the roles of editors and keeping you apprised of the latest and greatest research at Intel. We work...

06/19/2007: Welcome from the Intel CTO

Welcome to the new Research@Intel blog. I am pleased to open this new blog as a way to keep you informed on what is going on in our research labs. Through this forum, you will hear from some of the...