posted by Nick Knupffer on August 17, 2007
Just a quick post to say that we are going to be moving all new ‘Views@Intel’ content from the ‘Views’ blog into the ‘Technology’ blog to streamline things a bit - so head over here for all your usual tech news, info and loveliness.
Reminder to the millions of you who have RSS’ed (ok, both of you) to update your readers.
Nick
PS: For those of you who are not geeky enough to understand the title of the blog, I suggest you investigate the 4th book in Douglas Adam’s trilogy: Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
posted by Nancy Bhagat on July 31, 2007
Intel’s intent of our ad titled “Multiply Computing Performance and Maximize the Power of Your Employees” was to convey the performance capabilities of our processors through the visual metaphor of a sprinter. We have used the visual of sprinters in the past successfully.
Unfortunately, our execution did not deliver our intended message and in fact proved to be insensitive and insulting. Upon recognizing this, we attempted to pull the ad from all publications but, unfortunately, we failed on one last media placement.
We are sorry and are working hard to make sure this doesn’t happen again.
Nancy Bhagat
Vice President, Director of Integrated Marketing
posted by Nick Knupffer on July 24, 2007
This quarter will see the launch of Intel’s latest MP platform codenamed ‘Caneland’. MP means ‘multi-processor’ and refers to servers that can support 4 or more processors. Caneland is the platform name and is composed of the Tigerton processor and the Clarksboro chipset. First publicly demonstrated in October of 2006 and based on Intel’s Core microarchitecture, Caneland is expected to be the world’s 1st quad-core volume MP server platform in the market.
I caught up with Kirk Skaugen, Intel vice president and General Manager of the Server Products Group last week and asked him some questions about Caneland. See the video here:
Kirk spoke openly and frankly and gave out quite a lot of new information; mentioning that Caneland has been shipping since June, talked about how we expect Caneland’s 16 cores to double the performance of our previous MP offering on some workloads. Kirk also gave glimpses into what to expect next year from Intel in this slice of the market.
The Tigerton processor will top out at a frequency of 2.93GHz and will also come in a 50W low voltage flavour - making the prospect of very powerful and very dense blade servers a delicious reality.
posted by Nick Knupffer on July 16, 2007
Intel just launched an Extreme Edition version of it’s Core 2 Duo line of mobile dual core processors. This coupled with the recent SLI notebook announcement from Alienware shows just how serious Intel is about upping mobile performance. Next year will also see battery friendly quad core CPU’s for notebooks, this news should excite Photoshopers everywhere.
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posted by Nick Knupffer on June 22, 2007
As you may have seen in the media, Intel recently hosted its annual R&D day here in Santa Clara. The R&D day is a futuristic showcase introduced by CTO Justin Rattner, followed by roomfuls of various exhibits based on the research of Intel’s Corporate Technology Group (CTG).
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posted by Nick Knupffer on June 22, 2007
Intel recently held a press briefing in San Francisco outlining future Itanium plans. Chief among the nuggets of information where the following revelations:
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posted by Nick Knupffer on June 20, 2007
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 is only 45nm across, that is less than 200 silicon atoms wide.
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posted by Shekhar Borkar on May 27, 2007
Software has not kept up with Moore’s Law, and I did not get any disagreement. But will it in the future? Are you bold enough to predict that software will save Moore’s Law? That is what Peder Ulander (VP of Sun Microsystems) and I discussed with the members of the press in a roundtable.
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posted by Shekhar Borkar on May 20, 2007
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…!
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posted by Kevin Kahn on May 14, 2007
The Communications Technology Lab at Intel has a charter that matches its name – we are supposed to look at all the issues around communications for Intel’s future platforms. That’s a pretty broad charter since it means we worry about everything from how security works in Internet protocols, to how to process the packets flying off a fiber in 10Gbps and higher Ethernets into our servers, to future possibilities for integrating photonics and silicon, to how to build radios.
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