Spotlight: Wireless
3 Ways to Remove Information Highway Roadblocks with 5G Standards-Based Technologies - There’s no doubt about it. The information ‘superhighway’ is becoming increasingly congested and data capacity is a global challenge. World wide mobile data traffic grew 63 percent in 2016, reaching 7.2 exabytes per month. To put that in context, that number is roughly 8,000 times that of 10 years ago, and almost 800 million times...
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Turning Density into Opportunity: 5G in Asia - Density. When you mention the word density in relationship to 5G, it almost always refers to the network. But when mentioned in the context of Asia, the word “density” takes on a whole new meaning. The GSMA predicts that Asia will lead in the development of mobile 5G, attributing the region’s expected success to supportive...
read moreIndustry Focuses Efforts on Wi-Fi, Coordinated Shared Spectrum, and Convergence of Wireless and Computing - With spectral availability in diminishing supply, meeting the data challenges of 5G will require the industry to become increasingly resourceful—exploring new ways to leverage licensed, license shared, and unlicensed bandwidth to support a growing array of devices and requirements, while still maintaining good quality of service (QoS). While there are myriad standards bodies, industry groups,...
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5G Development Gets Agile with Intel’s 2nd Generation Mobile Trial Platform - There’s a famous quote that says, “Scientists dream about great things. Engineers do them.” As we accelerate towards a 5G world, where not just everyone, but every “thing” is enabled with seamless connectivity and massive computing power via the cloud — as an engineer and Chief...
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Extreme Edition and PC Gaming at E3 - Two weeks ago, I traveled to Taiwan to launch Intel’s most powerful desktop processor yet—the Intel® Core™ i7 processor Extreme Edition at Computex. And if you’ve read any of the performance reviews, there’s agreement that this is a monster processor. As one headline said, “Intel’s new ten-core processor is a beast: the fastest processor we’ve...
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Intel’s Most Powerful Desktop Processor - Our most powerful desktop processor yet – the new Intel® Core™ i7 processor Extreme Edition. I can’t remember when I was so excited by a new product launch. But with the Intel® Core™ i7 processor Extreme Edition, we’ve built a monster platform. It will transform the way people play, work and create. Just as consumers...
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Bringing VR to Content Creation - If you were born after 1995, you may barely remember a time when televisions received only the channels your cable provider carried; before there was an Internet or YouTube or streaming video that let you watch whatever you wanted whenever (or wherever) you wanted. It was a time when broadcasting professionals worked on platforms that...
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PC Gaming is Booming! - Here’s an amazing statistic: Earth’s population has reached nearly 7.5 billion people—and 1.3 billion of them are PC gamers!1 The Intel Extreme Masters eSports tournament alone attracts 100,000 live spectators to an arena, with over a million additional online viewers/participants. So to say that worldwide gaming is a serious business with strong growth potential would...
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Intel and EXOS Partner to Provide Clarity around Wearable Data - Fitness wearable devices can capture every heartbeat and step we take, leading to a proliferation of human performance data, but there is a great disconnect between deciphering what it all means and how to effectively act upon it. For wearables to become an irreplaceable addition to our everyday lives, we need to answer first and...
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Intel Teams up with Open Labs, Lenovo and Linkin Park to Drive High-Performance Music Creation - Last year, I had a musical experience of a lifetime. I was sitting in the the famed Red Bull studios in Santa Monica, talking with members of Grammy-award winning band Linkin Park. Star-struck, yes. But my focus wasn’t on their music or their well-known love of technology. Instead we were focused Zayed Hassan, a young...
read moreEUV Lithography – Progress on the Journey to Manufacturing Magic - SPIE’s annual Advanced Lithography conference is underway, and as Intel’s Britt Turkot, senior principal engineer in Logic Technology Development Lithography, described in her keynote, significant strides have been made in EUV lithography over the past year taking the technology from a question of if to a question of when. EUVL is solidly on a path...
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Intel Introduces Intel® XMM™ 7480 Modem for Ultrafast Connectivity and Worldwide LTE Coverage in a Single SKU - High-speed mobile broadband continues to enrich our daily lives with increasingly useful and entertaining applications. Whether you are streaming a movie to your tablet or doing real-time multiplayer gaming on your smartphone, incredible improvements to network speed and device technology put these capabilities at your fingertips. Today, we introduced the Intel® XMM™ 7480, our fourth-generation...
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Paving the Road to 5G Mobile Services - It is exciting to see the industry conversation around 5G growing to a crescendo. This is good because it means we are all thinking about the future! Every so often, I am asked: What is 5G and how it is different than previous generations of wireless standards? There are myriad answers to...
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