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Voices of Shanghai: IDF 2008

Jason Lopez — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:13:28 +0000

This year’s Spring IDF, in Shanghai, brought the global community of Intel developers to one of the fastest-growing cities in the world, to discuss one of the most rapidly-changing technologies, and the incredible impact that all of that change is bound to have. Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager for the Digital Enterprise Group, Pat Gelsinger, referred to Intel’s efforts broadly as “architecture for life.” If it sounds ambitious, it is.

The speed of change in the software world is daunting. In his own keynote, SVP and General Manager of the Ultra Mobility Group at Intel, Anand Chandrasekher, noted that everyone is trying to “unleash the Internet, unwire it, and make it go mobile.” Again, the words sound almost obvious, like common sense. They’re not.

It’s true that Intel specializes in bringing incredible advancements to technology on a tick-tock product development schedule that allows industries to grow and thrive. You can see in the matter of weeks and months that Intel’s efforts go from being rumor to being confirmed technological advances (like the recent Dunnington news) that the world is watching itself change in real time. It’s true that a lot of time at IDF in Shanghai was devoted to presentations on specific technologies, platforms and products.

We heard a lot more about Nehalem, about visual computing, about multithreaded CPUs (And just for fun, compare this detailed look at Intel’s sometimes-inscrutable codenames with a detailed look at those same codenames, from a slightly different perspective). Keynotes from Gelsinger and Chandrasekher, along with Software and Solutions Group General Manager and Intel Vice President Renee James and Intel’s Andrew Chien helped to clarify just how much more mobile our technology will allow us to be.

But always in the backdrop was Shanghai. In this video podcast, Jason Lopez connects the dots between Intel’s efforts to push technology past its limits and Shanghai’s amazing journey to pass its own.

Tags: IDF, Shanghai, Intel developers, Pat Gelsinger, architecture for life, Anand Chandrasekher, unleash the Internet, Dunnington, Nehalem, visual computing, multithreaded CPUs, Renee James, Andrew Chien, Jason Lopez, IDF2008, Silverthorne, Intel Atom, mobile Internet device, Nehalem, Dunnington, Multithreading, virtualization, high performance computing, wireless technology, Centrino, WiMax, 45nm, 32nm

IDF Shanghai: Sights and Sounds

Jason Lopez — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 22:51:47 +0000

In this video podcast, Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager, Digital Enterprise Group, Pat Gelsinger explains Intel architecture and its wide-ranging capabilities (”architecture for life”), and Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager of Intel’s Mobility Group, Dadi Perlmutter and Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager, Ultra Mobility Group, Anand Chandrasekher update the crowd on the latest on the mobile Internet devices and their innovative technology, powered by the Intel Atom processor.

This year’s Spring IDF took place in Shanghai.

Tags: Intel, Pat Gelsinger, Dadi Perlmutter, Anand Chandrasekher, Intel Atom, Shanghai, IDF2008, Silverthorne, Intel Atom, mobile Internet device, Nehalem, Dunnington, Multithreading, virtualization, high performance computing, wireless technology, Centrino, WiMax, 45nm, 32nm

IDF Shanghai: Keynote Demos Showcase Mobility, Innovation

editor — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:27:59 +0000

In this video podcast straight from Intel’s Spring IDF in Shanghai, the spotlight is on the keynote demos that showed power and performance in newer, smaller and more innovative form factors, many powered by the Intel’s Atom processor. Many of the demonstrations focused on mobility, and they all provided an exciting look at some of the technologies that are just around the corner.

Dr. Ren Ng, president and CEO of Refocus Imaging, led a demo of his company’s light field cameras, which record the full light field as it enters the camera, ultimately extending the capabilities of conventional digital cameras and “turning camera hardware into software.” Ng explains that by doing this, light field cameras “bring the economics and power of Moore’s Law to the camera system.” (snapshots from their Web site illustrate the demo, which they re-created live, on stage at IDF!).

Also on hand was Dr. Mendel Rosenblum, co-founder and chief scientist at VMware. He shared the stage with Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager, Digital Enterprise Group, Pat Gelsinger, to demonstrate a flex migration across four generations of hardware as well as the value of the deep collaboration between Intel and VMware.

There was a live demo by Classmate PC, following the news-making announcement of the new, second generation classmate (”featuring a 9-inch LCD screen, 6-cell battery, 512MB memory, a 30GB hard disk drive and a built-in webcam“), the unveiling of Intel’s Tukwila Itanium processor (“Two billion transistors in one processor”), and a mobility-focused Asianux demoonstration of the breadth of Moblin Usage, including a new way to play video from the Web and a new way to order Chinese food.

A Montevina demo was noteworthy after Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager of Intel’s Mobility Group, Dadi Perlmutter, revealed that Intel’s next generation mobile platform, Montevina, will provide twice the 3D processing power of any current integrated solution.

Demos showcasing Neusoft driver assistance, Fuwa robot, Adobe Air, Sobey real-time rendering and MID & mobile designs rounded out the event.

Tags: Intel, IDF, Shanghai, mobility, Ren Ng, Refocus Imaging, light field cameras, Mendel Rosenblum, VMware, Pat Gelsinger, flex migration, Classmate PC, Tukwila, Itanium, processor, Moblin, Montevina, Dadi Perlmutter, Fuwa, Adobe Air, Sobey, IDF2008, Silverthorne, Intel Atom, mobile Internet device, Nehalem, Dunnington, Multithreading, virtualization, high performance computing, wireless technology, Centrino, WiMax, 45nm, 32nm

Shanghai IDF Preview, with Intel’s Pat Gelsinger

Michael Johnson — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:00:38 +0000

In this podcast, a preview of this year’s Spring IDF 2008, bringing thousands of hardware and software engineers from around the world to Shanghai, China, for a developer forum with a telling theme: “Invent the New Reality.”

Intel Senior Vice President and Digital Enterprise Group co-GM Pat Gelsinger speaks with PodTech’s Michael Johnson about what is going to happen at the event in Shanghai.

Here, Gelsinger talks about the scheduled keynotes and new mobile internet devices based on the Intel Atom processor. Gelsinger shares his fondest memories of IDF over the years.

If you aren’t attending in person, that’s not a problem. Intel blogs will keep the information flowing in both directions with regular updates, photos and video.

If you’re not attending the event in person, be sure to follow online at Intel’s IDF pages and check in here for more video podcast coverage.

Tags: Pat Gelsinger, IDF, IDF2008, Nehalem, WiMAX, Dunnington, Intel Research, Mobile Internet Devices, Intel Atom, Intel

IDF Shanghai 2008: Atom-Enabled Devices To Debut

Jason Lopez — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:00:23 +0000

A new processor for the ultra-mobile market is Intel’s latest move to revolutionize mobility computing, from UMPCs to mobile Internet devices and even notebooks and desktops (er, “netbooks” and “net-tops”). While Atom (née Silverthorne) received its brand-new brand name recently, the family of tiny processors, which relies on 45nm technology just like the Penryn line of Core 2 Duo processors, will debut in devices on display at IDF in Shanghai in early April.

It’s no secret that China has come a long way in a short time — from being a country known for manufacturing cheap products for export to being, potentially, the next great IT superpower. National Science Board figures show that in 1994 there were only seven U.S. companies doing research in China. Ten years later, that number had risen to more than 500. Gartner analysts James Popkin and Partha Iyengar wrote, in their 2007 book I.T. and the East, that the world “will witness the birth of a real IT superpower if government restrictions are loosened and the Chinese instinctive talent for entrepreneurialism continues to be encouraged.”

It’s against this backdrop that the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai, April 2 and 3, 2008, takes on extra significance. China now supplies the talent, within the country, to conduct advanced research in chip design. At this year’s IDF in Shanghai, Intel will provide an update on new technologies and features that enable devices with better performance, less power, more mobility, and lower cost.

If you’re not attending the event in person, be sure to follow online at Intel’s IDF pages and check in here for more video podcast coverage.

Tags: new processor, ultra-mobile, Intel, mobility computing, UMPC, mobile Internet devices, notebooks, desktops, netbooks, net-tops, Atom, 45nm technology, Penryn, Core 2 Duo, IDF, National Science Board, James Popkin, Partha Iyengar, I.T. and the East, Intel Developer Forum

Tera-scale Software Research - Intel Chip Chat - Episode 26

editor — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 17:00:26 +0000

Enabling highly parallel applications – learn about Intel’s efforts to drive the software and hardware innovations necessary to harness the performance of future tera-scale platforms.

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Tags: tera-scale, Intel, IntelMooresLaw, IDF

Tera-scale Computing Research - Intel Chip Chat - Episode 25

editor — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 17:00:18 +0000

Scaling to 10s and 100s of cores - explore the challenges of creating platforms capable of performing trillions of calculations per second on trillions of bytes of data.

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USB 3.0 & Wireless USB Technology - Intel Chip Chat - Episode 24

editor — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:00:23 +0000

Explore the latest innovations in one of the most successful interconnect technologies in computing history – the Universal Serial Bus (USB).

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Tags: interconnect, Universal Serial Bus, USB, Intel, IntelMooresLaw, IDF

Inside Intel’s Graphics Software - Intel Chip Chat - Episode 23

editor — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:00:03 +0000

Learn more about the software that drives Intel’s Graphics Media Accelerator and about the display interfaces supported. Listen now!

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Tags: Intel, Graphics Media Accelerator, Intel, IntelMooresLaw, IDF

Designing Mobile Internet Devices - Intel Chip Chat - Episode 22

editor — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:00:00 +0000

Intel Fellow and Chief Platform Architect for Intel’s Ultra Mobile Group, Ticky Thakkar, takes you inside Intel’s mobile computing platform research and development.

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Tags: Intel, Ticky Thakkar, Intel, IntelMooresLaw, IDF

Itanium Processor 9100 series - Intel Chip Chat - Episode 21

editor — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:00:05 +0000

Kirk Skaugen highlights innovative new features integrated into the Intel Itanium Processor 9100 series.

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Tags: Kirk Skaugen, Intel, Itanium, Intel, IntelMooresLaw, IDF

Technology Trendspotting - Intel Chip Chat - Episode 20

editor — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:00:22 +0000

Dr. Moira Gunn, host of NPR’s Tech Nation, discusses everything from biotech demands on computing architectures to how she became a talk show host.

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Tags: Moira Gunn, NPR, Tech Nation, biotech, Intel, IntelMooresLaw, IDF

Intel’s 5400 Chipset-based Platform - Intel Chip Chat Episode 19

editor — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:23:54 +0000

Explore what’s inside Intel’s first 45nm quad-core and dual-core platform for workstations.

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Tags: Intel, 45nm, quad-core, dual-core, Intel, IntelMooresLaw, IDF

Developing the Home Storage Server - Intel Chip Chat Episode 18

editor — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 12:00:57 +0000

Discover what Intel is innovating for your digital life - interoperable devices communicating with a centralized home storage server.

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Tags: Intel, interoperable devices, home storage server, Intel, IntelMooresLaw, IDF

Advances in Nonvolatile Memory - Intel Chip Chat Episode 17

editor — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 02:47:27 +0000

Listen in as Intel Fellow Knut Grimsrud explores the challenges and opportunities in nonvolatile memory for platforms.

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Tags: Intel, Knut Grimsrud, nonvolatile memory, Intel, IntelMooresLaw, IDF

The Rise of 3D Internet - Intel Chip Chat - Episode 14

editor — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:28:43 +0000

Justin Rattner, Intel’s chief technology officer, explores what 3D Web and the rise of virtual communities means for online communication and the technology industry.

WiMAX: Pervasive Connectivity - Intel Chip Chat - Episode 13

editor — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:46:57 +0000

Explore how Intel is working to enable new freedoms in mobile information, interaction, user-generated content, and social networking with WiMAX broadband wireless technology.

What’s a Transistor? Meet Haf “The Smallinator”

editor — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:22:11 +0000

What is a transistor and how do the hundreds of millions of them work on a processor not much larger than a postage stamp? Meet Haf the little frog who learns about a big change in technology. Transistors are the essential building block inside all modern electronics devices. Yet they keep shrinking, this time thanks to Intel’s hafnium-based high-k and metal gate technology. At 45nm, these transistors are so tiny that you could fit more than 300 million of them onto the head of a pin and more than 400 million of them will power Intel’s soon-to-be-released chips. See it here. Thanks to graphic artist and director Geoff McFetridge who created the film.

Tags: Haf the little frog, hafnium, 45nm, Geoff McFetridge

Insights From Intel On Integrating Marketing, PR and Advertising

Jennifer Jones — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:32:35 +0000

Nancy Bhagat is the vice president for the sales and marketing group and director of integrated marketing at Intel. She joined MarketingVoices’ Jennifer Jones a little background on the Upload Lounge that Intel provided for the first time this past year at the Fall IDF. Every year for the past ten years in San Francisco, Intel has convened its Fall developer forum, and as the chip giant continues to address integrated computing environments, the Upload Lounge was a physical acknowledgment of the significance that social media messaging is taking on. Bhagat says that, at least at Intel, the executive team is on board when it comes to implementing social media strategy — a reality that has allowed her to re-brand her own team as an “integrated marketing” department. The marketing “mix” that Bhagat is excited to foster includes traditional media as well as the elaborate peer-oriented network that developers around the world already rely on for so much information and support. Looking ahead, Bhagat says that the measurement for new efforts online will stress engagement through increasingly complex messaging. On the marketing budget side, Bhagat is expecting that Intel will continue to stay out front in terms of stressing innovation in online and social media marketing efforts.

Tags: Nancy Bhagat, Jennifer Jones, Upload Lounge, Fall IDF, social media messaging, social media strategy, integrated marketing, engagement, marketing budget

Video Highlights From IDF SF 2007

Jason Lopez — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:21:41 +0000

Gordon Moore calls technology the “fundamental enabler” for all other technologies in his live-streamed keynote, available in two videos, here and here. The breadth of technology on display at this year’s Fall IDF in San Francisco confirms the central role that chip technology continues to play in tech advances. Moore’s Law sets the rhythm for what Intel calls its “tick-tock” development of new chip technologies, like this coming year’s Penryn 45-nanometer chips. In this video podcast wrap-up to the Fall IDF, a quick spin through the highlights from a few of the sessions, including Intel Fellows on call to answer any and all questions at the popular Shoptalk, where the experts discussed the future of silicon technology and those red aprons. A virtual walk through the exhibit hall, a look at the technology on display, and highlights from Gordon Moore’s on-stage interview round out the wrap-up coverage in this video postcard from the Intel Developer Forum.

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Tags: Gordon Moore, Moore’s Law, Penryn, Shoptalk, Intel Developer Forum

IDF Casual: Behind the Social Media at Intel’s Blogging Event

Jason Lopez — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:11:27 +0000

This year’s Fall IDF in San Francisco provided the perfect opportunity for Intel folks from all over the world to meetup in one room, socialize, and relax with some of the people who cover their efforts, from traditional press to bloggers. The attendees at this year’s “blogging event” included CEO Paul Otellini, Intel bloggers Josh Hilliker and Ylian Saint-Hilaire, Intel Vice President and General Manager of the Mobile Platforms Group Shmuel (Mooly) Eden, Intel spokesman and technology strategist Manny Vara, spokesman Bill Kirkus, Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Digitial Home group Eric Kim, Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Ultra Mobility Group Anand Chandrasekher, Intel Vice President and Director of the Digital Enterprise Group Operations Stephen L. Smith, and blogger Chris Heuer.

The meetup took place at Ducca Restaurant, in downtown San Francisco.

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Tags: Paul Otellini, Josh Hilliker, Ylian Saint-Hilaire, Shmuel (Mooly) Eden, Manny Vara, Bill Kirkus, Eric Kim, Anand Chandrasekher, Stephen L. Smith, Chris Heuer, Blogs@Intel

Wrap-Up News From IDF: Virtual Worlds and the 3D Internet

Michael Johnson — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 21:44:50 +0000

Users are looking for a richer, more cinematic experience from the Internet, according to Justin Rattner, Intel chief technology officer and director, Corporate Technology Group. Rattner gave the final keynote of the Fall IDF in San Francisco, focusing on virtual worlds, which are evolving into what he referred to as the “3-D Internet,” in a keynote titled, “Research and Development: Virtual Worlds - The Rise of the 3D Internet.”

Rattner, who spoke with PodTech’s Michael Johnson to give a preview of the Fall IDF, wrapped up the annual developer conference by acknowledging Wired Magazine’s prediction that, as social media and user-generated content hit the mainstream at the same time as the rise of broadband and increased connectivity (and mobility), the coming year could see 60 million participants in online virtual worlds.

Rattner was also joined onstage by Greg Nuyens, CEO of Qwaq, who demoed virtual worlds for the enterprise. Outside of business applications, virtual surgery (especially as a training tool) suggests that realistic virtual environments are already a significant force in some communities.

The larger message that Rattner left the crowd with was that the computing power that will be necessary to deliver this rich 3-D experience will have to be substantial, especially given the demand that real time or “frame rate” visual experience for the 3D Web will demand.

Tags: Justin Rattner, Fall IDF, virtual worlds, 3D Internet, social media, user-generated content, Greg Nuyens, Qwaq

Live at IDF: Engaging With Global Intel Software Communities

Catherine Girardeau — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:27:49 +0000

In what Intel called the “first ever software keynote address,” Intel Vice President and General Manager of the Software and Solutions Group Renee James kicked off Day 3 of the Fall IDF in San Francisco.

James, who manages the global network of teams that interact with all of the software companies that do business with Intel, spoke about, “Where Innovation Happens: Engaging with Intel Software Communities.”

In this podcast, we hear how the “community” aspect turns out to be key, as the relationships James oversees encompass the entire product lifecycle from early planning all the way through to sales and marketing. James devoted some time during the keynote to a few of those communities, including Moblin.org, a new community site that hosts the Mobile & Internet Linux Project, an “umbrella, open source project” for mobile Internet devices (MID). Another community, www.lesswatts.org, is a developer community for reducing power consumption that’s supported by Oracle (the site explains that, rather than being “about marketing,” it’s about “creating a community around saving power on Linux, bringing developers, users, and sysadmins together to share software, optimizations, and tips and tricks.” There’s also a global developer relations group, in addition to engineering and product teams.

James also pointed to whatif.intel.com, an Intel initiative that encourages communities to weigh in on the software development process, providing resources like, at the moment, an Integrated Debugger for Java/JNI Environments, for example.

In addition to supporting such a diverse array of global communities, James also oversees Intel Solution Services, Intel’s worldwide professional services organization.

At Intel, James was the product and program manager for the first software video codecs (Indeo), and was a member of the team developing Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for the unification of Unix on Intel Architecture.

To learn more about the Intel Software Community, click here.

Tags: software keynote, Software and Solutions, Renee James, Fall IDF, software companies, Software Communities, Moblin.org, Mobile & Internet Linux Project, open source, mobile Internet device, MID, Oracle, Linux, developer relations, software development, Integrated Debugger, video codecs, Indeo, Application Programming Interfaces, APIs, Unix

Live at IDF: Shoptalk With Intel Execs

Rio Pesino — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 03:16:17 +0000

One of the many opportunities for Intel leaders to answer questions from press, bloggers — anyone, really — is the popular panel q&a, “Shoptalk.” This time, Intel Fellows including Matthew Adiletta, Ajay Bhatt, Richard Lee Coulson, John Crawford, Vivek De, Kevin Kahn, P. Geoffrey Lowney, Eugene S. Meieran, Thomas A. Piazza and Raj Yavatkar fielded questions about Intel, the future of technology, the speed of developing platforms and processors, memory, voice recognition, Intel’s strategies in planning for the future, and those blue aprons.

What comes after silicon-based technology? How is Intel addressing growing concerns about the environmental impacts of technology? What about scaling for nanotechnology? The future of DRAM?

Click here to meet the Fellows.

Tags: Shoptalk, Intel Fellows, Matthew Adiletta, Ajay Bhatt, Richard Lee Coulson, John Crawford, Vivek De, Kevin Kahn, P. Geoffrey Lowney, Eugene S. Meieran, Thomas A. Piazza, Raj Yavatkar, processors, memory, voice recognition, silicon, environmental, nanotechnology, DRAM

Technology Highlights - IDF-SF Day 1 - Intel Chip Chat - Episode 12a

editor — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 02:31:50 +0000

Tune in to get the latest on exciting new technology disclosures and happenings from the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) including Paul Otellini’s keynote and Gordon Moore’s interview.

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Tags: Intel Developer Forum, IDF, Paul Otellini, Gordon Moore, IntelIDF, IntelMooresLaw