posted by Holly Bourne on April 25, 2008
After seeing all the new pocket-sized internet devices at IDF, I started wondering what people were carrying in their pockets on the streets of Shanghai. So on the last day of the event, with Josh videotaping and Helen providing the translation, we went outdoors and asked people “What’s in your pocket?” It was a fun way to be blatantly nosey. Take a look at some of the people we met. Oh, in case you’re interested, I currently have a lipstick, a cell phone, and a hotel address card in my pocket. Enjoy.
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posted by Ken Kaplan on April 08, 2008
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tagged: Dunnington, IDF2008, Intel Atom, mobility, Nehalem, Shanghai, visual computing
posted by Josh Bancroft on April 08, 2008
This entry was originally posted by Josh Bancroft on the Intel Software Network blogs.
There are only about 20 Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) existent in the world. Most of them were in Shanghai last week for the Intel Developer Forum (IDF). 10 of them were in the Mobility Software Enabling Lab at Intel Shanghai, where I got special access today to shoot photos and videos, as well as some hands on time to play, with the Lenovo Ideapad U8 MID and the Aigo MID. They also had some other devices around for comparison - an old prototype UMPC with a pivot screen, a Samsung Q1 Ultra Premium UMPC, and a Fujitsu Lifebook UMPC. And I threw my iPhone in a few of the photos for size/comparison’s sake.
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tagged: Aigo, IDF2008, Intel, Josh Bancroft, Lenovo, MID, mobile device
posted by Holly Bourne on April 08, 2008
Back home from Shanghai with Bronchitis and feeling pretty bad but I did want to share some low-res photos of the new mobile Internet devices we photographed while in Shanghai. As my colleague, Josh Bancroft, pointed out in his blog, “Bonus Video: My First Hands-On with a MID (Mobile Internet Device)”, access to these devices is limited. So we had to schedule our professional shoot between IDF sessions from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. Next step is to do some post-production work, add screen shots and we will be ready for the launch of products in Q2 and Q3.
I really liked how the devices felt in my hand. Screen size was perfect. They weren’t too heavy and could be easily carried in a pocket or in my case, a purse. I am looking forward to learning more about specific applications to be offered on each product. I understand that all will be centered around offering full internet access but they will be differentiated by the unique applications they offer like GPS or special entertainment services. And I did confirm that lost taxi cabs can be avoided with one of these devices at your side. I hope to have one before my next major trip.
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tagged: Atom, BenQ, Clarion, IDF, IDF2008, Intel, Lenovo, mids, mobile device
posted by Ken Kaplan on April 07, 2008
My Intel pal Bob Duffy shared the code for this IDF eyecandy photo collection created on Widgipedia.
posted by Ken Kaplan on April 04, 2008
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posted by Ken Kaplan on April 04, 2008
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tagged: IDF2008, Intel Atom, MID, Mobile Devices, Montevina, Netbook, Shanghai, Tukwila, VMware
posted by Ken Kaplan on April 03, 2008
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tagged: IDF2008, Intel Centrino2, laptops, Montevina, WiMAX, wireless
posted by Kari Aakre on April 03, 2008
If you’ve been reading all of the Intel blogs lately, you’d think nothing else was going on in the world outside of the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai this week. But… there was. The CTIA Wireless show took over Las Vegas this week and there was a lot of buzz around WiMAX.
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tagged: car, ctia, idf, laptops, nokia, notebook, tablet, wimax, wireless
posted by Ken Kaplan on April 03, 2008
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tagged: Anand Chandrasekher, IDF2008, Intel Atom, MID, mobile devices, Moorestown
posted by Ken Kaplan on April 03, 2008
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posted by Kelly Feller on April 02, 2008
Do not attempt to adjust your screen. And since April Fool’s Day is over, this is not a silly prank to see if you are paying attention. No, this is a real and true report coming to you straight from the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai, China, where today Intel announced it would begin offering software testing and validation services to members of the Intel Software Partner Program.
Did I say services? From a hardware company? What’s up with that?
Well, Intel has entered into a key partnership with SpikeSource, a software validation solution provider. The deal is that software companies, many of whom are medium in size or who develop open source solutions, can now receive Intel certification that ensures their solutions meet “rigorous standards for security, interoperability and maintainability, and are optimized for Intel technologies.” (I took that directly from the release).
I sat down for a brief conversation with SpikeSource CEO Kim Polese to get her perspective on this new service and how it will benefit both the software community and the end customers who rely on software in their everyday jobs and lives. (You all remember Kim, right? Think Java.).
Wow, maybe it’s the coffee here (I’ve made it no secret how I feel about it) but once again I’m a little giddy with the important implications of this announcement. Intel’s partner program reaches over 8,000 independent software vendors (ISVs) and I can see this service being a major benefit to developers so they can focus what they do best: developing cool software.
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tagged: certification, idf2008, idfshanghai08, Kim Polese, services, software and solutions, SpikeSource, validation
posted by Jason Swihart on April 02, 2008
Among a number of very cool items on the subject of “Digital Transformation,” in his keynote today, Andrew A. Chien, Vice President, Corporate Technology Group, hosted an awesome demonstration showing a 30-35% system power consumption savings.
By synchronization system events at the hardware level--as opposed to allowing asynchronous calls for power--baseline system power consumption can be reduced dramatically. The demonstration showed that, under normal conditions, the system can't really ever “go to sleep” resulting in a steady level of power consumption. If, however, system events are syncghronized the system only needs to wake up once in a while.
Very cool to see such dramatic power drops in practice and to hear that a 50% reductions are the goal for 2010.
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tagged: idf08, idf2008, intel developer forum, mobility, power savings
posted by Knut Grimsrud on April 02, 2008
It’s 2:37am as I’m writing this blog. No, I’m not under the influence of some illicit drug that’s keeping me up all night, just suffering from jet lag as I’m adjusting to the local time here in Shanghai where Intel is holding IDF this week.
In my last blog, I shared my frustrations with the experience of my IT laptop and I mentioned that I have been particularly frustrated lately. So why am I particularly frustrated any more than usual, and why lately?
Flash back to a couple weeks ago. In order to collect some real-world usage information and gain additional experience with the technology in an IT setting, I played the part of Guinea Pig and had one of our pre-production solid state drives (SSD) installed in my IT laptop (my IT guys will flip when they read this).
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tagged: IDF, IDF2008, intel, laptop, memory, performance, solid state drive, SSD
posted by Jay Gilbert on April 02, 2008
So here we are nearing the end … of day 1. Busy doesn’t describe how active the software area was in the Century Hall. Ok, one of the most popular entries was the real-time gaming but the rest of the pavillion was incredibly busy as well. SSG is also hosting 3 hands-on labs today focused on Virtualization (overview and hands-on) AND a Software Tools lab. All three are standing-room-only indicating how popular these topics are. Yeah I know the rooms are hot but there’s little we can do beside turn on the AC and open the doors. Aside from that the content seems to be right on track and many attendees satisfied with their learnings. PS: Don’t forget to pick up the SSG T-shirt and CD. Lot’s of great content on from each software division can be found there as well as on-line at: www.intel.com/go/software
posted by Kelly Feller on April 01, 2008
As I sat through the marathon keynote sessions in this morning’s kickoff of IDF, I tried to Twitter to provide you all some colorful realtime observations from the dark auditorium. About halfway through my Blackberry lost the ability to access the internet and thus…my voice was silenced, albeit briefly.
As I powered my way through my local grocery store last week—which I often do to grab the week’s meal supplies, each time trying to beat my previous record (so far I’m still trying to beat my record in-and-out time of 7 minutes), I realized I had forgotten to write down the ingredients I needed to make one of my succulent meals. Stomping my feet in disgust, I pined for some quick and easy way to jump on the internet right there in the produce aisle to look up the recipe and ensure I brought home all the requisite ingredients.
Both of these scenerios demonstrate my own personal longing for immediate and uncomplicated access to the internet; anytime, anywhere. And I don’t think I’m alone in this desire. As I learned at IDF today, I’m happy to report that Intel is on it!
The three opening keynotes, delivered by Pat Gelsinger, Dadi Perlmutter, and Anand Chandrasekher respectively, all talked of innovative breakthroughs in technology and visions on how the future was going to be overwhelmingly different. But the topic on most everyone’s lips was the exciting new mobile internet devices (MIDs) finally coming to market in the next several months.
It is easy to see why there is all this fuss about MIDs when: - 60% of internet users in China play online games - 3 billion minutes are spent everyday on social networking worldwide - 88% of Japanese phone customers are dissatisfied with their access to the internet from their phones
Combine all this data with the recent announcement of the Intel Atom processor and you have one perfect storm of mind-blowing proportion. And with all the awesome different MIDs that were on display today at IDF, I can easily see this anticipation grow into a consumer-covetous frenzy.
Ok, perhaps I’m a bit too hyped up on caffeine to stave off my jetlag. But this is exciting stuff! And I for one am thrilled Intel and our partners are working hard to, as Mr. Chandrasekher so eloquently put it, “unleash the internet.”
So stay tuned for more of my observations from IDF. As long as the coffee keeps coming, I’ll keep writing (I LOVE the coffee here!).
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tagged: Anand Chandrasekher, Atom, Dadi Perlmutter, handheld devices, IDF2008, idfshanghai08, intel, intel developer forum, MID, mobile internet, mobile internet devices, Pat Gelsinger
posted by Jason Swihart on April 01, 2008
In his keynote this morning at IDF Shanghai, Dadi Perlmutter announced a lot of good geek fodder, but a few of the items that stuck with me were:
Intel's solid state hard drives are on the way(!)--they're fast, light, small, and low power.
More super, ultrathin laptops--Dadi showed off the MacBook Air along with the new Ultrathin from Lenovo.
More mobile internet on the way with Wimax deployments this year in Korea and early 2009 in Tokyo.
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tagged: idf08, idf2008, intel developer forum, lenovo, macbook air, mobility
posted by Holly Bourne on April 01, 2008
Hello from Shanghai. I am here attending the Intel Developers Conference and managing a photoshoot of mobile internet devices(MIDs) that will be launched later this year. This is my first time visiting China and my first time blogging. I am excited to see Shanghai but not sure about the blogging. Based on how my trip started here I know it all will be a great adventure.
It began with a crazy cab ride from the airport to my hotel. The hotel driver didn’t meet me so I had to get my own taxi. Usually no big deal but I didn’t have the hotel information in Chinese. A local contact for IDF helped me by providing instructions to the cab driver and I was off to the Eton Hotel. An hour and half later and several u-turns I knew my cabby was lost. Yes, not asking for directions is a universal affliction. And unfortunately I only know how to say “Are we there yet” in English and broken Spanish. Anyway my kindly cab driver finally stopped and asked for directions to the hotel. Meanwhile, I am sitting in the backseat feeling really foolish. I started thinking about the info I had in my laptop. I remembered the hotel website with driving directions and the IDF website with a map. Helpful stuff, I hadn’t printed out and didn’t have access to it when I needed it. Which leads me to why I am here at IDF—To learn more about the cool mobile internet devices available to buy later this year. Will these devices allow me to quickly pull up websites, get directions and help stubborn cab drivers? And most importantly, can they tell me where I can find designer handbags and shoes while I am here. Stay tuned.
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posted by Guest Blogger on April 01, 2008
This entry was first posted by Jeff Moriarty in the Intel Software Network Blogs.
With the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) kicking off this week in Shanghai there’s going to be a mini-avalanche of MID, Atom, and Moblin related announcements coming out. I’ll try to publish a few digests here of anything I find interesting, like this video fellow Intellian Ken Kaplan shot about some of the MID devices from the Consumer Electronics Show. I’m looking forward to finally getting some of this hardware in my own hands to play with!
In my ongoing self-education on this topic, there was a valuable post on our intranet that was billed as “Atom 101”. See, even Intel employees can’t keep all our kooky code names and chipsets straight! Anyway, the author, Walden Kirsch, gave me the green light to post it externally so I hope it is of help to others.
Intel® Atom™ processor. The brand name for a family of low- power processors designed for a range of new market segments including mobile Internet devices and simple, low-cost Internet-focused machines such as netbooks and nettops (see definitions below). The Intel Atom processor will also be used in embedded and consumer electronics. The initial versions of the Intel Atom processor are code named “Silverthorne” and “Diamondville” (see below). The Intel Atom processor family is based on the core code named “Bonnell.” The Intel Atom processor is Intel’s smallest chip, built with the world’s smallest transistors. Contains 47 million transistors.
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tagged: Atom, Diamondville, IDF, IDF2008, Intel, Jeff Moriarty, Menlow, mobile device, Moorestown, Nettop, Poulsbo, Silverthorne
posted by Uday Keshavdas on April 01, 2008
As we prep for day 1 at IDF, the buzz is palpable. Of course, just being in Shanghai on the banks of the Yellow river is buzz enough. But when you walk around and see all the posters, companies and VIPs beginning to pour in, you know something is in the works.
I also got my hands on Lenovo’s promotional video on their new U8 product. Most of us have seen it, but rumor has it that the software has a significant update since we saw it last.
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tagged: IDF, IDF2008, Intel, Lenovo, Lenovo U8, mids, mobile, mobile device
posted by Ken Kaplan on April 01, 2008
This entry was first posted by Ken Kaplan in the Mobility@Intel blog.
Friday at Intel headquarters, I met up with Ultra Mobile Man Uday Keshavdas to see what he was packing up for his trip to Shanghai for the Intel Developer Forum. In this video, we go inside his work area and see some of the devices his team demostrated at the Consumer Electronics Show. He’s fired up to see how people react to the new designs that will be revealed at Shanghai this week, especially the sleek, new user interfaces. Then he cracks open an mobile Internet device (MID) showing where the Intel Atom processor fits. That thumbnail area packs in the computing oomph many have yet to experience in such a tiny mobile device.
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tagged: idf2008, idfshanghai08, intel atom, mid, mobile device, mobility
posted by Guest Blogger on April 01, 2008
This entry was first posted by Kevin Kahn in the Research@Intel blog.
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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tagged: csll, IDF, IDF2008, intel, kahn, kevin kahn, mobility, research
posted by Guest Blogger on April 01, 2008
This entry was first posted by Yimin Zhang on the Research@Intel blog.
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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tagged: IDF2008, intel, many core, model-based computing, multi core, research, terascale
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