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Isolation of Infected PCs and Remediation with Intel vPro Technology - Part 2 of 3

Paul Lancour — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:22:56 +0000

This is the second in a series of three videos from IT@Intel, each featuring Omer Ben-Shalom, principal engineer with Intel’s Information Technology Group. In these videos Omer demonstrates how Intel vPro technology System Defense filtering can be integrated with Security Event Management systems to improve corporate response capabilities to virus outbreaks, while at the same time reducing the resources required and improving speed to response. This second video shows how a human operator can use these Intel vPro technology capabilities to quarantine an offending host which has been detected by the security event management system.

Tags: AMT, event_manager, filtering, IT@Intel, management, network quarantine, Omer Ben-Shalom, quarantine, ron miller, Security, system defense, video, virus, vpro

Isolation of Infected PCs and Remediation with Intel vPro Technology - Part 1 of 3

Paul Lancour — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:00:52 +0000

This is the first in a series of three videos from IT@Intel, each featuring Omer Ben-Shalom, Principal Engineer with Intel’s Information Technology Group. In these videos, Omer demonstrates how Intel vPro technology System Defense filtering can be integrated with Security Event Management systems to improve corporate response capabilities to virus outbreaks, while at the same time reducing the resources required and improving speed to response. This first video is an overview of how Intel vPro technology capabilities for network quarantine can be used to enhance security event management systems by providing them with an active response capability.

Tags: AMT, event_manager, filtering, IT@Intel, management, network quarantine, Omer Ben-Shalom, quarantine, ron miller, Security, system defense, video, virus, vpro

Intel CIO Diane Bryant on IT’s Enterprise Role in Innovation

Paul Lancour — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:21:43 +0000

In this video podcast, Diane Bryant, Intel Corporation’s recently-named chief information officer, discusses the role of IT in the enterprise today. Bryant sees three main functions for Intel’s IT organization, beginning with the company’s strategy for driving business growth. That centers upon ultra low-power devices in support of mobile Internet devices, and ultra low-cost solutions represented by the Atom processor, which focuses on the low-cost PC market, and the rapidly scaling system represented by global, emerging markets and the next billion users. For Bryant one big question is, “How are IT solutions going to enable Intel’s business growth?” Intel IT also serves as an in-house end user, and a valuable resource in the product development process as Intel works to stay in touch with enterprise IT management and drive down the cost of doing business. Finally, by working closely with CIOs and other enterprise IT managers, Intel IT is able to help set the rapid pace of IT innovation.

Tags: Diane Bryant, Intel, enterprise IT management, CIO, mobile Internet device, Atom processor, low-cost PC, emerging markets

Intel Helps Developers With Multi-Threaded Software Community

editor — Wed, 21 May 2008 18:53:44 +0000

In this podcast, The Register’s Tim Phillips speaks with Intel’s Shesha Krishnapura about developers’ adoption of multi-core technology. Krishnapura sees that, while multi-core processors have been around for awhile, now is an especially exciting time for multi-threaded software, given the uptake in industry and the increasingly urgent need for the software that will help to realize the higher performance potential of multi-core. Intel is leading the effort to adopt with key software packages and developer tools that make it easier to write multi-threaded code.

To find out what Intel is doing for the community, check out the community site, “Threading for Multi-Core Developer Community.” There, Intel and the community share tools and expertise with featured articles, threading analysis tools, industry benchmarks, training, and access to Intel developers and experts, for training and best practices information.

Krishnapura is a principal engineer in the Intel Platform and Design Capability Engineering group, driving the internal engineering of High Performance Computing solutions optimized for Tapeout and Design Computing. As an architect of Intel Architecture migration program for Electronic Design Automation, Shesha is responsible for enabling IA-based optimization and adoption in EDA market by enabling application vendors and strategically influencing world-wide semiconductor customers for best-in-class design compute solutions.

Tags: Tim Phillips, Shesha Krishnapura, multi-core processors, multi-threaded software, multi-threaded code, threading analysis, High Performance Computing, Tapeout, Design Computing, Intel Architecture, Electronic Design Automation, IA, optimization, HPC, Intel, VTune, Threading Analysis, Intel Performance Libraries, Intel Threading Building Blocks, EDA

Intel Lowers Energy Costs for High Performance Computing

editor — Tue, 20 May 2008 15:00:04 +0000

The current uptake in high performance computing means mostly good things, but it also comes with a few built-in challenges. The paradox of this particular progress is this: when you scale hardware, you oftentimes scale power consumption, right along with it. That’s where Intel’s Shesha Krishnapura has some good news to share, in this podcast speaking with The Register’s Tim Phillips. Says Krishnapura, “In the past, that power relationship has existed. But with Intel’s core microarchitecture platform, the power holds constant while performance climbs.”

Intel is working to improve the performance-per-watt characteristics of HPC systems. The effort is important, as Xeon-based servers dominate the Top 500 supercomputers list and the clusters used by businesses for their most demanding jobs.

Fist of all, Intel’s throughput-per-rack measurement helps illustrate the point when Intel 45nm-based quad-core processors run at similar power levels as dual-core processors, while offering twice the number of processing cores per server. Add Intel’s switch to higher density memory like 4GB memory modules instead of 2GB modules — the 4GB run at similar power envelope — and it’s clear where Intel is holding a fairly stable power envelope and still seen what Krishnapura calls, “a substantial performance increase, year after year.”

Tags: Shesha Krishnapura, Tim Phillips, Xeon, servers, 45nm, High Performance Computing, Tapeout, Design Computing, Intel Architecture, Electronic Design Automation, IA, optimization, HPC, Intel, VTune, Threading Analysis, Intel Performance Libraries, Intel Threading Building Blocks, EDA

ROI of Data Center Heat Recovery

Catherine Girardeau — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:00:00 +0000

Intel IT has designed a new system to reduce energy costs, recycle excess heat, and the reduce environmental impact of the data center. In Part 2 of this podcast, Intel IT Data Center Design Engineer Doug Garday plugs in some numbers that show potential energy cost savings, amount of heat recovery, and return on investment of Intel IT’s data center heat recovery system.

Related links:
Data Center Heat Recovery (PDF)
Data Centers Recycle Excess Heat (Podcast)

Tags: energy costs, excess heat, Doug Garday, data center cooling, data center power, data center, green data centers

Data Centers Recycle Excess Heat

Catherine Girardeau — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:01:20 +0000

Instead of wasting all the excess heat your data center generates, wouldn’t it be more efficient to reuse it to heat offices, water, and more? With the growing number of data centers being built, now is the time to integrate energy saving and reuse methods. In part one of this two-part podcast, Doug Garday, a data center design engineer with Intel Information Technology, explains energy recycling, a method of reducing the impact of data centers on the environment. Intel IT recommends building systems to recover data center heat into the design of new facilities. Garday explains Intel’s design scheme, and gives tips on calculating your return on investment.

Tags: datacenter, data center cooling, data center power, green data centers

IT@Intel: Software as a Service

Catherine Girardeau — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:00:05 +0000

In a big company like Intel, users get their software in a variety of ways - on their desktops, delivered over a network, or some combination of those. Catherine Spence, an enterprise architect with Intel IT Research and Technology Development, studies alternate and emerging compute models for enterprise operations. In this audio podcast, Spence discusses what her group learned through a recent study on the effects of streaming and virtual hosted desktop computing models on server and network utilization. On-demand software, or Software as a Service, is one of the emerging software delivery models showing benefits in boosting productivity and lowering costs.

Tags: Intel, Catherine Spence, enterprise architect, IT Research and Technology, compute models, streaming, virtual hosted desktop, On-demand software, Software as a Service

Virtualization and Data Center Consolidation

Jason Lopez — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:30:27 +0000

Intel is launching an eight-year process of data center consolidation, as Brently Davis, communications and stakeholder manager, blogs on IT@Intel. In this video podcast, he discusses the benefits — reducing costs, improving server and storage utilization], creating higher density & more energy-efficient data centers — and challenges, like impact on business partners, impact on different parts of the company, and costs. The strategy is known as “D.O.M.E.,” which stands for “Design, office, manufacturing and enterprise” computing. IT Architect Travis Broughton, who uses a parking lot to illustrate some of the challenges of virtualization in a recent post on IT@Intel, also weighs in on virtualization’s role in data center consolidation.

Related links:
Intel’s Matthew Rosenquist blogs about Virtualization from a security professional’s perspective - is it a dream or a nightmare?

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Tags: data center consolidation, Brently Davis, IT@Intel, storage utilization, data centers, D.O.M.E., Travis Broughton, virtualization, Matthew Rosenquist

ROI: Intel vPro Technology in the Enterprise

Jason Lopez — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 04:02:50 +0000

With Intel vPro Technology, the enterprise has a measurable way to improve IT efficiency and cut costs significantly. Enterprises that deploy Intel vPro technology-based PCs as part of a comprehensive PC refresh program can expect to reduce hardware complexity and the expenditures associated with that complexity. Wipro conducted a survey of IT managers from 40 different companies in a variety of industries, asking about current desktop management activities and costs that could be reduced by PCs with Intel vPro technology. The results the research team came up with were impressive — according to the white paper documenting their findings, a company with 32,000 desktops and a 4-year refresh cycle can achieve desktop management cost reductions of approximately $1 million in year one of the refresh, and as much as $7.5 million in year five, by which time the entire PC population would be part of a base featuring PCs with Intel vPro technology.

In this video podcast, Intel Senior Business Marketing Manager Justin Van Buren, Wipro Chief Application Architect Patrick Kalaher, Wipro Architect Timothy Morey, and Intel’s own Josh Hilliker discuss the technology and its implications for business with PodTech’s Jason Lopez.

Check out the Intel vPro Technology ROI Estimator

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Tags: Intel vPro Technology, IT efficiency, PC refresh program, hardware complexity, Wipro, desktop management, Justin Van Buren, Patrick Kalaher, Timothy Morey, Josh Hilliker, ROI Estimator

Virtualization and Enterprise Architecture: The Security Architect

Jason Lopez — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 02:34:55 +0000

Data centers today are under pressure from rising compute requirements, demand for storage capacity and energy costs. In this video podcast from IT@Intel, Alan Ross, principal engineer and enterprise architect with Intel IT, shares experiences, technology assessments and best practices around data center efficiency, virtualization and consolidation.

Transforming the data center requires understanding the underlying domains: facility, network, server, storage and how security interacts with manageability and other technology. The security architect has to evolve plans for business continuity and disaster recovery, as well as jump into emerging threat and risk arenas like Web application security. Facilities monitoring and management and energy savings require understanding and balancing customer service levels with the need to pinpoint where, when and how much compute power is needed, and migrating workloads accordingly. Virtualization is another game-changer in the data center, increasing capacity and manageability while decreasing energy consumption.

Alan Ross comes to enterprise architecture from an unconventional background. He holds a number of patents, has worked with electrorheological fluids to change the behavior of automotive dampers, and hopes someday to be part of future innovations in energy efficiency, photovoltaics and photolytics.

Blogs IT@Intel

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Tags: storage capacity, IT@Intel, Alan Ross, virtualization, data center, Alan Ross, enterprise architecture, electrorheological fluids, energy efficiency

Intel Ships New 45nm Penryn Chip

Paul Lancour — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 19:01:30 +0000

Gordon Moore’s Law will remain in effect for the foreseeable future. Intel Corporation’s new 45nm Penryn microprocessor relies on a new recipe that combines the element Hafnium and metal gate technology to increase performance and significantly reduce eco-unfriendly, wasteful electricity leaks. (more…)

Tags: Moore’s Law, 45nm, Penryn, microprocessor, new recipe, Hafnium, metal gate, eco-unfriendly, wasteful electricity leaks

Security Plan - Risk Assessment, Modeling and War Gaming

Jason Lopez — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:36:45 +0000

Security risk assessments, security risk modeling, and protecting against security threats by maintaining a threat agent library — these and other programs form the basis for understanding threats to network security for Intel. In this video podcast, TIm Casey, senior strategic analyst for information security at Intel, discusses the strategy behind Intel’s efforts.

Intel maintains a “threat agent library,” with profiles of security threats, and the agents who might perpetrate them. It also uses real-time threat scenarios, or war games, to try to bring information about the actual environment together with threat agents and threats to test and improve threat response.

From fending off ordinary hackers to more organized crime or cyber terrorism, Casey’s role is like that of an IT secret agent working to keep Intel’s secrets out of the hands of real-world threat agents.

Casey blogs about IT security at IT@Intel. In a recent blog post, Power Tools in Information Risk Management, he discusses the tools he uses in managing information security risks at Intel. Check out other Intel blogs at Intel Open Port. (A recent post by Intel’s Matthew Rosenquist’s notes that the threats to network security are living, breathing opponents who are creative, knowledgeable, motivated, and have personal objectives in mind.

Intel’s OnConnect Authentication Saves Intel Millions Through Secure Networking

Jason Lopez — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 00:04:27 +0000

Sanjay Rungta works with Intel’s Network Engineering Organization on keeping the Intel computing network safe and intrusion free. In addition to external threats from hackers, Rungta has done a lot to identify and combat internal threats. As increasing numbers of Intel employees work from home or WiFi hotspots, opportunities for exploiting certain network vulnerabilities increase. In this podcast interview, Rungta explains that It’s not that Wi-Fi holds greater risks or vulnerabilities, but that it’s experiencing such tremendous growth that it holds opportunities for all kinds of exploitation. He says that, with a network as large as Intel’s, efforts including remote employees’ access via VPN and implementing what he calls OnConnect Authentication have saved Intel millions of dollars. Rungta is an author of OnConnect Authentication.

IT@Intel

Tags: Sanjay Rungta, Intel, Network Engineering, hackers, internal threats, VPN, OnConnect Authentication, IT@Intel

IT@Intel: Return on Security Investment

Jason Lopez — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 00:05:35 +0000

Matt Rosenquist, Information Security Strategist at Intel, says that measuring success in the security industry is difficult, since there isn’t a perfect tool for measuring what doesn’t happen. In this podcas talks about how he approaches a nascent practice like security. Rosenquist blogs about security for IT@Intel, where in a recent post he posited some reasons why virtualization remains a open — and important — question for security professionals. In his post, Rosenquist argues that, since “you can’t get any deeper than the hardware,” Intel and other hardware designers are best positioned to help take the high ground in any battle against attackers. And it’s worth checking out the podcast video and reading his full blog post to see what Rosenquist means by success (hint: security isn’t an end, in Rosenquist’s thinking).

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

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

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

IDF Live: Is Social Media a Friend or Foe of IT?

Jason Lopez — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:35:49 +0000

Tom Foremski, editor of Silicon Valley Watcher, led a panel discussion on Day 1 of the Fall Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. The panel dealt directly with the friction that often arises between the burgeoning social media forces in the enterprise and the IT groups that find themselves in opposition to the kinds of needs created by those newer social networks.

The panel in this podcast includes Peter Kaminski, CTO of Socialtext, Jackie Medecki, attorney for social media and marketing at Intel, Jeff Moriarty, a social media/Web 2.0 design engineer at Intel, John Miner, an IT methodologist at Intel, and Eleanor Wynn, a social technology architect at Intel

It’s IT’s stereotypical response (”No”) to questions about setting up blogs and wikis, that prompts the debate. But as John Miner points out, most large companies inherently already have blogs and wikis — they just don’t realize it. This, he says, is because they tend to grow organically inside of large IT structures. But the fact is that the candor and conversation that make up the substance of blogs and wikis do tend to threaten some of the structures of the enterprise — especially when it comes to legal concerns.

How does Intel handle the challenges? Especially when it comes to the “gray areas?” This video podcast shows how one large corporation is navigating social media in the enterprise.

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Tags: Tom Foremski, Silicon Valley Watcher, Intel Developer Forum, social media, IT, social networks, Peter Kaminski, Socialtext, Jackie Medecki, Jeff Moriarty, John Miner, Eleanor Wynn, social technology, blogs and wikis, IT@Intel

Fireside Chat with Gordon Moore, Live at IDF: Part 2

Rio Pesino — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 07:21:19 +0000

Gordon E. Moore, Intel retired chairman and CEO (and chairman emeritus of the board) spoke with Moira Gunn onstage at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, in an interview that Intel called a “fireside chat.”

In this segment, find out whether or not you owe your workplace set-up to Moore and Intel (hint: you probably do). Also, was “Intel” ever the hame of a motel company in the Midwest?

The conversation covered a full career, from a time before semiconductors, when the very notion of integrated circuits was new — and controversial. Since then, of course, not only has Moore been on the winning side of the technology, but his name has become synomymous with the notion that the technology of the chip is on an aggressive development track — “Moore’s Law” has guided and challenged the chip industry for more than 30 years. (Asked if he regrets that name, he says, “I guess I don’t - now.”)

An End to Moore’s Law?
Every year sees speculation about a possible end to Moore’s Law. What does Moore, himself say (this year)? The answer is in this podcast. The physical world is subject to limiting factors, and Moore predicts that sometime in the foreseeable future, limits will be reached in the business of chip-making. However, Moore says he’s still impressed at how well the industry has extended the technologies, so far.

Moore easily recalls a time before the name Silicon Valley applied to the high-tech corridor south of San Francisco, but he was also remembers a time before the now-ubiquitous staple of office life worldwide. Cubicles. You may not like your cubicle much, but according to Moore, they came about in an attempt to keep the office from looking like a prison. Besides, he says, he still has the biggest cubicle at Intel.

Gordon Moore co-founded Intel in 1968.

To learn more, click here.

Tags: Gordon E. Moore, Intel, Moira Gunn, Intel Developer Forum, semiconductors, integrated circuits, Moore’s Law, Silicon Valley, Cubicles

Live from IDF: Gelsinger Puts Nehalem and Virtualization on Display

Catherine Girardeau — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 03:06:45 +0000

In his keynote today at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Patrick Gelsinger, senior vice president and general manager of Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group, gave a broad update on Intel’s efforts this year.

In this podcast, Gelsinger covers what he calls the company’s “relentless pursuit of Moore’s Law,” spotlighting Nehalem (that’s the codename for “the first-ever Intel 45 nanometer High-k metal gate next-generation microarchitecture dual processor server,” according to company statements).

He also revealed Intel’s plans to build on the latest roll-out of Intel vPro processor technology with a 2008 release called “McCreary,” which will include new halogen and lead-free 45nm dual and quad-core processors.

Encryption and decryption technology is addressed with Danbury technology (one reaction to which can be found here).

Underscoring the current momentum around virtualization, Gelsinger was joined onstage at one point by John Fowler, executive vice president of Sun Microsystems. A demonstration of Intel Virtualization Technology and Intel Trusted Execution Technology shed some light on how Intel will provide protection for virtual environments in the workstations and desktop PCs of the future.

Check out Pat Gelsinger’s blog for more thoughts from (and after) IDF.

Tags: Intel Developer Forum, Patrick Gelsinger, Digital Enterprise Group, Moore’s Law, Nehalem, 45 nanometer, microarchitecture, dual processor, vPro, McCreary, lead-free, Encryption, decryption, Danbury technology, virtualization, John Fowler

IDF Exclusive: Intel CIO John “JJ” Johnson

Michael Johnson — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 02:49:04 +0000

Live, from the “Upload Lounge” at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel Vice President and CIO John “JJ” Johnson spoke with PodTech for this podcast about some of the hot topics being talked about at this year’s Fall IDF.

Johnson talks about the many ways in which Intel’s Enterprise Capability Framework helps enterprise data networks keep up with the demands associated with managing emerging technologies, including social media like IM, blogs and wikis as well as the newest generation of smart phones. A big part of the challenge facing the enterprise involves providing the requisite security without limiting capability.

For the enterprise, Johnson highlights virtualization (a hot topic at the end of Day 1) and the value of Intel’s vPro — including advantages like the ability to fix or reboot a crashed machine in the network, or to analyze network machines remotely.

It all points in one direction — increased mobility brings increased demands, which together create what Johnson sees as the most interesting innovation in the last ten years.

Check out Intel’s IT Community.

Tags: Intel Developer Forum, John “JJ” Johnson, IDF, data networks, social media, smart phones, virtualization, vPro

Fireside Chat with Gordon Moore, Live at IDF: Part I

Rio Pesino — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 02:36:20 +0000

In this segment, find out how Intel really got its start, and how much of its success Moore thinks was just great good luck.

An End to Moore’s Law?
Every year sees speculation about a possible end to Moore’s Law. What does Moore, himself say? The answer is in this podcast. The physical world is subject to limiting factors, and Moore predicts that sometime in the foreseeable future, limits will be reached in the business of chip-making. However, Moore says he’s still impressed at how well the industry has extended the technologies, so far.

Gordon Moore co-founded Intel in 1968.

To learn more, click here.

Tags: Gordon E. Moore, Intel, Moira Gunn, Intel Developer Forum, semiconductors, integrated circuits, Moore’s Law, Silicon Valley, Cubicles

Otellini Keynote, Live from IDF

Catherine Girardeau — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:59:38 +0000

Paul Otellini looked back on 40 years of innovation at Intel, outlined the company’s three main capabilities (silicon technology, Intel architecture, and market creation), and gave his vision for the future. “Today’s innovations are the basis of future technology,” Otellini said.

Intel has brought out new technology every two years for the last 14 years, putting Intel co-founder Gordon Moore’s “Moore’s Law” into practice. From 45 nanometer technology, Intel has its sights set on 32 nanometer microprocessors for 2009.

Otellini also talked about platforms — the unique combination of microprocessors and chipsets, “tailored for the task at hand.” In the immediate future is Penryn, 45 nanometer dual-core products, the first of which are launching on November 12. Next year, Intel plans to launch Nehalem, a scaleable, multi-core system — 8 cores, each with 2 threads. (Specifics on the launch aren’t available yet — Dean Takahashi reports from IDF that it’ll be released “as soon as it’s ready.”

While discussing the multi-core Larrabee effort, Otellini may have revealed a little more than he intended by indicating it amounted to a move into discrete graphics (he later clarified, according to The Register’s Ashlee Vance: “I said that among the applications for Larrabee one of them is high-end graphics.” Other sources provide a play-by-play of the proceedings.

In addition to adding more cores, Intel is also improving the performance of individual cores, and of power efficiency.

What does the future hold for Intel? The long list of efforts includes pushes in extreme mobility, including ultra-mobile devices with integrated WiMax/Wifi; entertainment — with talk about extreme performance, graphics capability energy efficiency for extreme gaming; problem-solving geared for Enterprise innovations; performance and energy efficiency initiatives including the Climate Savers Initiative & compliance with EPA Energy Star rating program; and creating and reaching new markets, with initiatives to get the 3rd million people connected, through programs like “Intel Teach.”

Tags: Paul Otellini, Intel, silicon technology, Intel architecture, Gordon Moore, Moore’s Law, 45 nanometer, 32 nanometer microprocessors, microprocessors, chipsets, Penryn, Nehalem, IDF, Larrabee, discrete graphics, ultra-mobile devices, WiMax, Wifi, extreme performance, extreme gaming, Climate Savers Initiative, Energy Star rating, Intel Teach