Tag Archives: silicon

See the full 90 mins of my recent press briefing As Intel celebrates it’s 40th Anniversary, it gives me great pleasure to share with you the insights and learning from 29 years of my career with Intel; its’ been rewarding … Continue reading →

Beyond the Hi-Def Lounge, beyond the mobile majesty of our MIDs and past our amazing laptop spiral (video) at CES 2008, we wanted to get back to what’s central in all of our lives. We had a team positioned with … Continue reading →

We took the silicon core of an Intel Core 2 Duo microprocessor, a camera and a microphone to the Las Vegas Strip here at CES 2008… and asked people ‘What is this thing?” See the reactions for yourself. For those … Continue reading →

Short post this time – I am at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco and our illustrious Silicon Photonics guru Mario just delivered a stirling speech about the recent breakthrough in Silicon Germanium photodetectors. See Sean’s blog about … Continue reading →

See NEW video at the end of this post. 45 is an important number. In 45 BC Julius Caesar won a victory over the armies of Pompey and proclaimed himself the sole ruler of Rome. Some 2000 years later, in … Continue reading →

There is a lot of talk right now about 45nm – the newest and most exciting step along the Moore’s Law story. (Yes, it IS exciting…) Essentially it means that transistors can be made smaller, and the smallest feature size … Continue reading →

Science gurus Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman show how Intel’s incredible shrinking transistors are helping to cram old, super-sized supercomputer performance into small, sleek laptops built with Intel Centrino Duo processor technology. This video was created to celebrate the introduction … Continue reading →

Every now and then you hear a pessimist predicting demise of Moore’s Law. It is too difficult, if not impossible to continue they say, give several compelling scientific and economic arguments, is the end for real? Hardly…!

Intel and the University of California Santa Barbara recently won the EE Times ACE award for the Most Promising New Technology category. Silicon Photonics technologies use silicon and laser light to transmit and receive data. And there has been a … Continue reading →