Tag Archives: IDF2007

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 … Continue reading →

“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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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. … Continue reading →