posted by Jacqueline Mu on October 26, 2007
“Google”, “PIcasa”, “Mesh-up”, “iTunes”, “cloud computing”, and more…
To hear those words, one may have thought that he/she was in one of these Web 2.0 conferences. But it was not. This was IDF, and people were talking about how those new Web-based applications are going to have an impact on mobile computing.
I hope the following two slides from one of the IDF sessions were not state secrets, but they do show some of the mega trend that has very high relevance to what every one of us is experiencing now.
posted by Jacqueline Mu on October 19, 2007
Reposted with permission from Whiteboard Infinity, the blog of Sin-Yaw Wang, Vice President, Engineering, Sun:
It seems to be a world election year; Taiwan exhibits the same media-political craze. Mr. Hsieh, went into a 13 days radio silence, then emerged to propose a presidential debate on the platform of United Nation membership. Mr. Ma, his Nationalist Party rival candidate, refused combatively, “It is about economy. Stupid.” The sound-bite caught on. Everyday, newspapers headlined with a “It is about … Stupid” variation by another politician.
Across the strait, the Communist Party is having its 17th National Congress. Five years ago, at the 16th Congress, Mr. HU JinTao became the new leader of China; this once-in-five-year event is really the equivalent of a presidential election. World media swamped Beijing. Taiwan people, however, exhaled with big relief hearing Mr. Hu’s message hinting “peaceful unification.”
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posted by Ken Kaplan on October 18, 2007
The Social Media Club of Silicon Valley will be at Intel Headquarters on October 22 from 6:00 to 8:30 p.m. for a discussion on Social Media and the Enterprise: Looking Forward.
The panel will be led by Shel Israel, co-author of the “how blogs are changing the way businesses talk with customers” book “Naked Conversations” with Robert Scoble.
Shel will help the audience dive into lessons learned, tough challenges and where people are going next with social media inside the workplace. Shel will be joined by:
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posted by Jacqueline Mu on October 17, 2007
Some more thoughts on IDF Taipei from one of our customers:
One of the things that I like about IDF is people are really making things happen here. Or at least they are trying hard. For example, the battery life of your notebook.
As much as its advantages to carry around just like your cellphone, there is a single one thing that bug me most. You have to conserve on your power consumption for every little thing you do. Either you have to turn down the back-light and squirm, or you have to pull down and close the LCD lid right after you’ve finished the job. You never have the luxury of keeping it on for at least an hour without doing anything:)
posted by Jason Swihart on October 16, 2007
Utilizing the world’s smallest refrigeration compressor to improve laptop performance.
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posted by Jason Swihart on October 16, 2007
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posted by Jason Swihart on October 16, 2007
Catching the tail end of this session, Troy Renken from Z-Power showed off some of the ways their silver-zinc battery technology outperforms lithium-ion through, among other things: polymerized zinc anode resistant to changes in shape; separator stack resistant to zinc dendrites and consequential battery shorting and thermal performance reductions; and flatter battery life-cycle curves due to overall greater capacity.
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posted by Jason Swihart on October 15, 2007
In his session this afternoon, Bruce Fleming pointed out, among other things, that for ultramobile devices, more efficient web page rendering leads to lower load times. And lower is better.
As a web developer, dramatic bandwidth improvements and much higher computing power obviated the load-time concern five or six years ago. Back in the day, however, it was a web designer’s job to minimize load times—interesting that today it has become the job, in part, of a chip manufacturer.
posted by Jacqueline Mu on October 15, 2007
One of our customers sends us more thoughts on what he saw at IDF Taipei:
Can you pour water over your notebook?
Yes, you can, that’s according to Mooly Eden, one of the keynote speakers on IDF. See that glass of scotch in the front? You may pour it over as well.
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posted by Jason Swihart on October 15, 2007
In his Keynote this afternoon, one of Wen-Hann Wang’s interesting discussion points was Intel’s tack with regard to the web and, in particular, social media. Softwarecommunity.intel.com and coolsw.intel.com were just a couple of the community initiatives highlighted by Dr. Wang.
I’m fascinated to see the the many ways in which Intel is experimenting with new forms of engagement—and to see social media front-and-center in keynotes.
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posted by Jacqueline Mu on October 15, 2007
Some reactions from one of our customers to what he saw at Day One of IDF Taipei:
On any typical business day, everyone wants to carry a notebook that is light and thin. But what component should be gotten rid of first if you want to slim down the current form factor?
It’s the LAN port, according to Mike Trainor, who talked about the mobile platform trends at IDF conference here in Taipei.
posted by Jacqueline Mu on October 15, 2007
Professor Chung-Ming Huang, distinguished professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Cheng Kung University sent us his reactions to yestyerday’s IDF Taipei keynotes:
Keynote talks are not keynote talks. They are fantastic live talk shows being full of pleasure, happiness, and innovation. Without professional performers, dancing queens, or sexy show girls, amazingly, they were made by VPs—the genuine VPs made by Intel.
Shmuel, your English is understoodable by we non-native English speakers. We not only enjoyed it but also listened to your talks. Bingo.
Be multicore, be WiMax, be Intel, be 101, be back to Taiwan again.
Cheers.
CM
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posted by Jason Swihart on October 15, 2007
On the flight to Taipei, I was seated next to Doug Huard, an Intel motherboard engineer. In this capacity, he’s working more energy efficient motherboard designs and held a session on that topic Monday, taking a look at motherboard features, with a focus on power consumption and discussing the new Energy Star* specification.
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posted by Vincent Tu on October 15, 2007
The 10th anniversary for Taipei IDF is a significant milestone for Intel. In the past ten years, Intel has gained huge success in mobile personal computer market, but stumbled on the challenging processor and communication IC market at the same time.
We can see very mature Intel developer networks in Asia, especially in Taiwan. Nine out of ten computers were made by Taiwan ODMs. Besides processors on computers, what Intel can do to have more growth?
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posted by Jason Swihart on October 14, 2007
From the speaker lounge at IDF Taipei. At IDF SF it was iPhones. From left to right:
See more IDF Taipei photos at the Flickr IDF photo pool on Flickr.
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posted by DL Byron on October 14, 2007
From Anand Chandrasekher’s opening keynote, the magic of 45nm technology … Anand also showed a working 32nm wafer.
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posted by DL Byron on October 14, 2007
While IDF Taipei starts, the blogging lounge was full of attendees on laptops, some meetings, blogging, and the buzz about the show. More photos on Flickr.
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posted by Jacqueline Mu on October 14, 2007
We asked one of our customer to tell us what he looks forward to at this year’s IDF Taipei. Here’s what he told us:
I was up in the mountains when I got this really important call from a colleague of mine.
What’s up? I’m at the Intel Developer Forum tomorrow and I needed to write something about it. Too bad I was 20 kilometers from home and I didn’t have my laptop with me to write a quick blog post.
I did have with me quite an advanced smart phone from Dopod which has since been acquired by HTC. It has the capability of mobile blogging if only I could find a Wi-fi signal. But that was a big “if.”
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posted by DL Byron on October 14, 2007
In the few hours that I’ve spent so far in Taipei it has “touched my heart.” Taipei is a curious, fun, and warm place with many aspects I’ve have just began to discover. Tomorrow IDF Taipei starts and I’ll join Intel bloggers to cover the event itself, the people, and more on the city.
Tonight I noticed all the neon-lit buildings, including this one next to the Taipei International Convention Center.
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