posted by Ken Kaplan on August 29, 2008
Note: I am posting this for John Cooney, Intel’s Program Manager for Mass Animation
Earlier this month, Intel announced the Mass Animation project at SIGGRAPH. The project will enable animators around the world to collaborate via Facebook on a 5-minute, professional-quality animated short film.
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posted by Ken Kaplan on August 22, 2008
Even before the Intel Centrino mobile technology mantra hit the scene in 2003, driving up laptop performance and increasing battery life required more than better, more efficient processors. It took a holistic approach of building efficiency into just about every component and feature — from the integrated wireless chips to smarter screens, better batteries and hard drives.
At IDF this week, I was eager to learn more about solid state drives (SSD), which are starting to become available in new laptops and other computers hitting the market. I grabbed an Intel SSD on the IDF Showcase floor, even juggle a few the wallet-sized solid state hard drives. They are nifty.
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posted by Ton Steenman on August 19, 2008
Here are some of the cool things we demonstrated at IDF in San Francisco!
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posted by Ken Kaplan on August 19, 2008
Today, I was talking with CNBC reporter Jim Goldman, who called Intel Chairman Craig Barrett the Johnny Appleseed of Technology, describing Dr. Barrett’s travel record and devotion to helping governments grow from the benefits of technology.
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posted by Kari Aakre on August 19, 2008
Last Friday, in madness of last minute preparations for IDF this week, I took a break and headed to one of the mobility labs at our Hillsboro, Ore. campus. This particular lab is one where the mobile group is showcasing a very cool technology coming to laptops soon. It’s codenamed “Cliffside.” Other people have blogged about Cliffside in the past here and here, but I wanted to check it out for myself and Scott with our mobile wireless group agreed to give me my own demo.
If you haven’t heard about it, Cliffside is new software developed by Intel that will let you create your own personal Wi-Fi network with a Centrino 2-based laptop. This means you can wirelessly connect and manage a variety of devices that are Wi-Fi enabled - from digital cameras, MP3 players, to printers and projectors - via your laptop. The laptop is both a Wi-Fi client, as well as an “access point” for the various devices. So cool! And the best part? NO WIRES! I have so many different wires for my various Wi-Fi enabled devices and I can’t wait to get rid of them when Cliffside arrives on the scene.
If you haven’t witnessed this thing of beauty yet, be sure to check it out. Cliffside will be on display at the Technology Showcase here at IDF this week. Or, if you’re not here at IDF, check out my video of Scott’s demonstration for me last Friday in the lab.
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posted by Nick Knupffer on August 19, 2008
Did you watch Pat Gelsinger’s IDF kenote today?
He announced that the new 6-core Intel Xeon processor for expandable servers will launch in September, and has already broken multiple world performance records - notably the first x86-based server to burst through the 1 million barrier in the industry- standard TPC Benchmark C benchmark which measures database performance.
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posted by Ton Steenman on August 19, 2008
Many of you are undoubtedly aware of the Intel Developer Forum (IDF), which is taking place this week in San Francisco. Embedded technologies are taking center stage this IDF, and In-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems are a part of this show. Of note, we are not just showing the latest infotainment system capabilities, we are also giving an IVI system away as part of the Ultimate Geek Challenge at IDF. In addition to receiving the Ultimate Geek crown , the winner of the challenge will win a Smart Passion Coupe car outfitted with Azentek’s IVI system!
I think the winner will be thrilled with the IVI system in the Smart car. Azentek’s Atlas CPC-1000 product based on Intel architecture includes music, radio (integrated AM/FM tuner, HD and satellite radio ready), e-mail, navigation, hands-free cell phone use and Web browsing, all of which can be controlled through a safe and easy-to-use touch-screen user interface. Come see the Smart car on display on the 3rd floor, just outside the Keynote Hall.
The Smart car isn’t the only cool project we’ll have on-site. We also worked with Wind River Systems, with the support of BMW, to bring the latest technology into a proof-of-concept IVI system based on the Intel Atom processor and Wind River Linux Platform for Infotainment, which is actually a Moblin-based Automotive Linux stack. The BMW demonstration car showcases 3D navigation, location awareness and rear-seat video streaming. It is a great example of how the automotive industry can take advantage of commercial-off-the-shelf technology brought together by the eco-system, and tap into a bigger pool of applications and services capabilities. Come to the Embedded pavilion at IDF (#2310) and check it out! You can also see it in Pat Gelsinger’s keynote presentation. It is pretty amazing what your next-generation IVI system can do.
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posted by Ken Kaplan on August 18, 2008
Last September, just prior to the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco 2007, I met up with Intel’s Mark Parker, who gave us a sneak peak at a wafer filled with Intel Atom processors (back then codenamed Silverthorne). Seeing a few of the prototype devices helped open my imagination to what these future mobile Internet devices (MIDs) could do.
In March of this year, I caught up with Ultra Mobility Group guru Uday Keshavdas just as his team was packing up MIDs for IDF Shanghai 2008. In this video he cracks an Atom powered MID open so we could see the Atom chip and guts inside.
Uday met with me the other day to show three Intel Atom-powered devices that will be on hand this week at IDF San Francisco, the special Oylmpic edition Lenovo ideapad. See him touch the screen and finger scroll through the IDF Blog.
Intel Software Community’s Jeff Moriarty will have the special edition Lenovo in San Francisco later today and through Thursday. Watch for meet up Tweets and posts — more details in his recent IDF blog.
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posted by Annie Rodkins on August 14, 2008
Interested in the latest news, analysis and commentary about the Intel Developer Forum? Eager to voice your opinions and participate in the action? Then be sure to check out IDF Connected, the latest in our family of blogs, dedicated exclusively to coverage of the Intel Developer Forum.
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tagged: Atom, Gelsinger, IDF, IDF blog, IDF2008, Intel Developer Forum, Kumar, mobility, Nehalem, Rattner, Wozniak
posted by Bill Calder on August 10, 2008
Nehalem. A small town along a river by the same name in Oregon, and also code-name for Intel’s next generation microarchitecture. Today Intel announced that upcoming products based on this new architecture will officially be called Intel® Core™ processors. Will Nehalem fade away as a code name? Probably not right away. But over time, if you want all the goodness that Nehalem represents, think Intel Core processor.
Speaking of goodness, a fair amount is known about Intel’s new microarchitecture, but not all technical details have been revealved. Expect to see and hear more about the new architecture and the upcoming Intel Core processors at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco August 19-21. Keep a close eye on Pat Gelsinger’s keynote speech on August 19.
The first products in this new family of processors, which will be in production in Q4 and feature a unique mix of performance and energy efficiency, will also carry a new identifier and be formally branded the Intel® Core™ i7 processor. Believe it or not, this new naming scheme should make it easier for PC buyers to decide which technology is right for them. The “i7” identifier is the first of several new identifiers to come as different Nehalem-based products launch over the next year.
So the Intel Core processor will become the foundation, the primary client brand going forward, with individual identifiers distinquishing different features and capabilities with the family of processors. Watch this space for more details…
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