In just 45 days, Intel will honor the 60th anniversary of the invention of the transistor. On December 16th, 1947 the first practical point-contact transistor was built at Bell Labs. Transistors are the fundamental on/off electrical switches for every device … Read more
“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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
Utilizing the world’s smallest refrigeration compressor to improve laptop performance.
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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. … Read more
