Tag: @idf08

• Talkin’ Mobile Internet Devices, Netbooks, WiMAX at IDF For me, the Intel Developer Forum is a place to witness real progress, talk with tech demo lab gurus and test drive new devices and services before many of them hit the market.I learn a lot about the engineering wonders being built into the latest chips -- turbo mode for the new Nehalem-designed chips -- but getting my hands on...
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• New Hard Drive Takes Hard Ride To Show Benefits of Intel SSDs Even before the Intel Centrino mobile technology mantra hit the scene in 2003, driving up laptop performance and increasing battery life required more than better, more efficient processors. It took a holistic approach of building efficiency into just about every component and feature -- from the integrated wireless chips to smarter screens, better batteries and hard drives.At IDF this week,...
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• IDF Car Demonstrations! Here are some of the cool things we demonstrated at IDF in San Francisco!
• Innovation Community Can Help Bring Hope and Opportunity, Says Intel Chairman Craig Barrett Today, I was talking with CNBC reporter Jim Goldman, who called Intel Chairman Craig Barrett the Johnny Appleseed of Technology, describing Dr. Barrett's travel record and devotion to helping governments grow from the benefits of technology. (more…)
• My personal Wi-Fi network — on display at IDF Last Friday, in madness of last minute preparations for IDF this week, I took a break and headed to one of the mobility labs at our Hillsboro, Ore. campus. This particular lab is one where the mobile group is showcasing a very cool technology coming to laptops soon. It's codenamed "Cliffside." Other people have blogged about Cliffside in the past...
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• Intel servers smash records with 6 core ‘Dunnington’ Did you watch Pat Gelsinger's IDF kenote today?He announced that the new 6-core Intel Xeon processor for expandable servers will launch in September, and has already broken multiple world performance records - notably the first x86-based server to burst through the 1 million barrier in the industry- standard TPC Benchmark C benchmark which measures database performance. (more…)
• Next Gen Infotainment at IDF Many of you are undoubtedly aware of the Intel Developer Forum (IDF), which is taking place this week in San Francisco. Embedded technologies are taking center stage this IDF, and In-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems are a part of this show. Of note, we are not just showing the latest infotainment system capabilities, we are also giving an IVI system away...
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• Video: Sneak Peek at Intel Atom-Powered Devices Appearing at IDF Last September, just prior to the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco 2007, I met up with Intel's Mark Parker, who gave us a sneak peak at a wafer filled with Intel Atom processors (back then codenamed Silverthorne). Seeing a few of the prototype devices helped open my imagination to what these future mobile Internet devices (MIDs) could do.In March...
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• Getting to the Core — Intel’s new flagship client brand Nehalem. A small town along a river by the same name in Oregon, and also code-name for Intel's next generation microarchitecture. Today Intel announced that upcoming products based on this new architecture will officially be called Intel® Core™ processors. Will Nehalem fade away as a code name? Probably not right away. But over time, if you want all the goodness...
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• Intel Smart SoC — The Move to Purpose-Built Chips What would you do with a billion Intel transistors nestled in our pocket?If what they said today comes true, we might have a billion transistors efficiently running a system on a chip that puts high speed computer performance and wireless Internet inside many of the things we touch -- from our mobile phones and computers to the navigation system in...
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