Intel’s Bryan Rhoads took the opportunity to blog from the conference using a MID. He used the mobile Internet device to bring his blog readers along with him to breakfast, and to snap a picture of two of Intel’s tiniest products - the Atom processor and the silicon core of an Intel Core 2 Duo.

We showed those tiny products to attendees at SxSWi, and found out how some creative folks are interacting with their computers (and what’s inside).

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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.

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HP’s notebook portfolio has expanded, with offerings designed for small business users with a fresh look. These new standard-series business notebooks round out HP’s comprehensive portfolio of mobile offerings. Their sleek, silver-finished style underscore the company’s focus on delivering design-savvy products. The 2710p offers the functionality of an ultra-light notebook plus the flexibility of an ultra-slim tablet. Featuring widescreen displays, the latest processor technology and multiple wireless technologies, the HP Compaq 6720s and 6820s Notebook PCs offer a balance of mobility and value. They come with the latest Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processors, WiFi certified WLAN, integrated Bluetooth, ExpressCard 54 (vs. PC Card), 3 USB ports (vs. 2), and security, reliability and ease of use features. For security, HP offers Device Access Manager for HP ProtectTools, HP ProtectTools Security Manager, and HP Disk Sanitizer. For reliability, HP Drive Guard protects from shock and data corruption. And for ease of use, the notebooks feature an integrated Secure Digital (SD) Card reader to easily transfer files to other digital devices and the optional DVD+/-RW SuperMulti DL LightScribe Drive to burn custom high-quality labels and artwork on to your disc.

HP Total Care is a broad portfolio of support, services and solutions to help small and medium businesses get the most out of their technology choices and focus on what they do best – run their business.

The iPAQ 100 and 300-series bring reliable handheld productivity and connectivity tools to SMB customers. The HP iPAQ 110 Classic Handheld is a stylish personal organizer to keep your emails, calendar, contacts and tasks up-to-date. The HP iPAQ 310 Travel Companion is a sleek personal navigation system that provides a unique 3D travel experience. The high resolution 4.3-inch touch screen display and high-performance GPS technology make it as beautiful as it is helpful.

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Gaming PC with quad core Intel processors. Wireless laptops with Intel Centrino Duo processor technonlogy. Wireless ultra mobile PC with Intel. A central HD-capable entertainment hub with Intel Viiv processor technology inside.

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The new technologies are Centrino Duo, for consumer machines, and the Centrino Pro, for business notebooks. The release of the new laptop technologies comes four years after Intel first launched the platform that made wireless connectivity and mobility a standard characteristic of notebook computers. “It really was a tipping point,” said Karen Regis, a manager in Intel’s Mobile Platform Marketing Group. “It really became the new norm. People expect to be able to sit on their couch and be on the Internet.”

“Now, what we’re doing is we’re just raising the bar on ourselves with what people can do with that wireless,” she added. Regis says the new technology allows people to use their laptops at home or in business in ways that are more seamless. “Once you have that kind of throughput, coverage and reliability, you can start doing interesting things like high definition content.” The rise of Internet-delivered video is one of the factors in the design of new Centrino technologies. Both the Centrino Duo and Pro technologies are based on Core2Duo chips.

Centrino Pro laptops are designed to work within Intel’s vPro environment where I.T. departments can more easily manage fleets of PCs and stay on top of security issues.

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On March 13th, Intel judges selected the top PC design semifinalists. The industry-chosen winners are scheduled to be announced at the upcoming Intel Developer Forum in Beijing, China in April. But you can vote and comment on your favorite finalists participating in the PC Design People’s Choice Awards, which are running simultaneously with the Intel Core Processor Challenge. If you’re an eligible vote, even YOU could win a $100 prize!

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Intel announced that it will begin making 45 nanometer chips, code-named Penryn, in the second half of the year. The new microprocessors are the culmination of years of R&D using new materials to improve the efficiency and performance of silicon-based semiconductors.

The company says the new chip technology maintains Moore’s Law, the observation made by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore in the late 1960s that the number of transistors doubles on chips every two years. Intel scientists say that transistors are now so small that more than 300 can fit on a human red blood cell.

In a recent earnings announcement, Intel officials said they expect to rebuild a lead in the computer chip market through innovation and manufacturing efficiency. Intel’s current line of microprocessors includes the Core2Duo, Core2Extreme, and Core2Quad.

In this video podcast, PodTech’s Jason Lopez visits Intel’s Hillsboro, Oregon research facility and fab.

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Transcript:
Host: Jason Lopez – PodTech
Guests: Intel Spokesperson
Guest: Kelin Kuhn - Intel

Jason Lopez – PodTech
Transistors are the miniature machines of the heart of computers. The first transistors built on silicon in the 1960’s were relatively large compared to those of today. But in the last few years, scientists have sensed The End of Moore’s Law as the quest to double a number of transistors on a chip every two years has pushed the limits of physics.

This test wafer is used to measure the reliability of billions of H transistor and interconnect features, the blue prints for making microprocessors. For nearly 40 years, transistors have been made from a polysilicon gate and silicon gate oxide, the materials used to create the switch inside that turns it on and off. But with 65 nanometer technology currently in production, those materials have been pushed to their physical limits. To go smaller at 45 nanometers scientists said Intel chose new materials a Metal gate and High-K gate oxide based on the element hafnium. These materials have enabled yet again the doubling of the density of transistors within a two-year timeframe.

Intel code names its new family of 45 nanometer chips ‘Penryn’ which deliver a significant improvement in power efficiency and performance.

Speaker
This is a really tremendous accomplishment to get all the way down to 45 nanometer dimensions. When I joined Intel five micron dimensions were common. 45 nanometers is more than a 100 times smaller than that. So, quite remarkable.

Kelin Kuhn - Intel
If you think about it, if you look at the Intel 45 nanometer device technology, we can fit 400 transistors on something about the size of the human blood cell.

Speaker
So, it allows us to continue scaling and maintain this Moore’s Law type of evolutionary built up we’ve seen.

Speaker
Well, developing smaller transistors or technologies with smaller feature size is very key, because it allows you to pack more transistors on a chip which means you can do more things with that chip, that also means that these transistors when they’re smaller can use less energy when you switch them on and off. So, you have better power efficiency, you can get certain computational functions done using less energy, less power.

Jason Lopez - PodTech
Intel’s drive to adhere to Moore’s Law is as much an economic decision as it is a scientific one. It’s one thing to make the Metal gate and High-K gate oxide technologies work. It’s another to make 45 nanometer chips enlarged volumes to satisfy the market. Intel’s lead in the chip industry is based on its ability to deliver cheaper and faster microprocessors.

Speaker
Well, one of the key things that Intel does very well is what’s called Design for Manufacturability and the key there is to make sure that the product design and the process manufacturing technology are able to work together and produce high yielding, high quality products and because we’re an integrated device manufacturer, we do the design in-house, we do the process development in-house, we’re able to do a really good job at Design for Manufacturability up front and produce these chips in high volume.

Jason Lopez - PodTech
Metal gate and High-K gate oxide only atoms thick are more electrically efficient helping to reduce heat and power lost from leakage and improving transistor performance by 20%. The idea to use new materials has been around for more than a decade, but the technologies to deploy them were developed by hundreds of engineers over the past few years.

Kelin Kuhn - Intel
Okay so, if you think about how we build gate oxides, historically, we’ve used very simple silicon dioxide materials basically glass, and as we’ve developed our technology expertise over the years we started doing very elegant things to this glass to make ever better oxides basically the gate of the transistor.

When we introduced the Intel 45 nanometer process we moved a hafnium-based material as a radically different way of resolving our gate leakage issues and so it’s a very novel material system that’s intrinsic to the type of leakage improvements we see. Chip design was simple once and we don’t do that anymore. It’s complicated now because we already did the simple stuff that’s my humorous answer, but I think in today’s world if you look at a modern microprocessor. We’re talking hundreds of millions of transistors and it’s incomprehensible that humans can build this to be honest.

Every time we have a success in the fab. I sit back and look at this and we’re looking at devices that are one-tenth the wavelength of light. Little tinnie winnie devices and humans can build these very complicated things and if you think about it, a yielding dye in our process technology means every single transistor worked. Every single one of those 100 million transistors worked and that’s when we sell them. Can you believe it? Humans can actually make something where every single one of a hundred million plus devices worked, it’s remarkable, and we don’t do it as individuals, we do it as an international team.

Speaker
We had the fly of the wafers to Arizona, get them assembled and then fly them back to Folsom, California in order to actually test them.

Jason Lopez - PodTech
So, what was the feeling of the team when you booted up that first OS?

Speaker
I would say one word it was ‘Euphoria’. The team was just tremendously excited. When you considered a number of people involved in the two–and-a-half years that culminated in this boolean of major Operating System with Penryn, it was an awesome feeling.

Jason Lopez - PodTech
Is that simply because it worked or is it because a number of things work?

Speaker
Yeah, it really represents the fact that a number of things worked. Coming out of reset is not so monumentous as say (Inaudible) up to boot Windows XP, or Windows Vista or Linux because there is a lot of functionality that has to be working to reach that level of capability. So, the team was obviously excited for that. All this happened around. I believe we booted around 3:30 in the morning and there was just a lot of adrenalin in the lab at that time and this is a lot of excitement.

Jason Lopez - PodTech
It’s like a moon shot only you didn’t have the big screen looking.

Speaker
Yeah, you could say that. Maybe on a smaller scale, but yeah, that’s equivalent to us on the engineering team as our moon shot.

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Transcript:
Host: Michael Johnson - PodTech
Guest: David Marsiglia - Intel
Guest: Merlin Kister – Intel

Michael Johnson - PodTech
I’m Michael Jones and we’re here at the Intel booth at CES International. And we’re with David Marsiglia from Intel. Hey Dave it’s great to have you here.

David Marsiglia - Intel
Hey, thank you very much.

Michael Johnson - PodTech
Tell us a little bit about what we are looking up behind us. Talk about recording Web video and using — really utilizing the power of the Core 3 Duo processor?

David Marsiglia – Intel
Exactly. Yeah this is one of the many demos that we’re actually showing here today, that really utilizes our — not only our Core 2 Duo processor, but really incapsulates, it incapsulates our whole Intel Centrino Duo mobile technology as a whole. When you see these videos they are great to see, but that’s really all you can do is, just view them online. What you can’t do, is download them, because these are streaming videos. Until now that is. We’ve actually worked with a company called (Inaudible) which actually optimize to really excel on a Core 2 Duo Processor, part of our Centrino Duo platform.

So, what this software enables you to do, this is the user interface that we have here, which really is built upon the Firefox browsers, and then they’ve actually incorporated their own engine and filling system in it as well. What you do is, utilizing their software you can go on YouTube, Google videos, or really anywhere that has unprotected streaming video, you can actually simply click record button and start recording, not only the video, but that entire page and for you to view off line and really take your videos with you on the go. So, you could be on an airplane and watch all those favorite videos here that you have recorded and just watch them anytime you want.

Michael Johnson - PodTech
We’re here with Merlin Kister of Intel. Merlin, tell me a little bit about what we’re looking at?

Merlin Kister - Intel
Well this is the newest technology coming this year is the ability to communicate between your PC and your TV set, to be able to enjoy all of the content, your movies, your music, photos and even some new services that are accessed and available on your PC on big-screen TVs. The Core 2 Duo makes the small form factors possible. We give you a high performance processor that’s very energy efficient, allows you to view that stream that content over to connect to electronic devices like this brand new Sharp TV.

Michael Johnson - PodTech
I know that we have talked before, like digital life or the (Inaudible) club and there’s a lot of fascinating things here. This has really taken things through the whole newsstand.

Merlin Kister – Intel
Exactly, exactly. We’re seeing this convergence has with other technologies; so no longer will you have islands of content. So, consumers will be able to access - don’t have to worry about, “Well is that music file or is that located on my PC, or is it on my iPod?” Now, with these new types of electronics they can communicate with each other, consumers can get access to really their favorite media on the device and screen up their choice.

Michael Johnson — PodTech
Merlin Kister from Intel thanks for showing me this great stuff. I’m not quite there with my TV set yet.

Merlin Kister - Intel
Well it’s a great one to upgrade to.

Michael Johnson - PodTech
I know that it’s coming so, thanks for showing us.

Merlin Kister - Intel
Thank you.

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Transcript:
Host: Paul Lancour - PodTech
Guest: Jean Bozman – IDC

Paul Lancour - PodTech
Sun Microsystems and Intel Corporation announced a major agreement on Monday, between the two companies. The alliance is centered on Intel’s endorsement of Sun Solaris Operating System and Sun’s announcement that it will be delivering Servers and Workstations, based on Intel’s Xeon processors. The announcement was made by Sun’s CEO Jonathan Schwartz and Intel’s CEO Paul Otellini, in San Francisco. Jean Bozman is Research Vice President of the Enterprise Computing Group at IDC. I caught up with her shortly after the presentation at St. Regis Hotel.

Jean Bozman - IDC
I have covered Sun since the 80’s. It’s pretty much why I wanted to see this because if you look at it in historical perspective. This is very interesting, this is something that a lot of people thought, would never happen.

Paul Lancour - PodTech
Why not?

Jean Bosman - IDC
Because, if you look at the history there were a number of point products that they did work on together if you go back, in the 87 to 90 period, they had a workstation and they had Intel Inside, if you want to say,. And then there was the LX50 more recently, which was an Intel based Server in 2002 and they had sort of Blade Server BX2000 I think, it also had Intel based Blade, but when they made those other ones, is particularly with Microsoft, with AMD, it’s sort of seemed like all the issues they dropped drop in the sense, this is one that I think that people had not anticipated because again, they had these point products, but no big, squashy announcement like this.

Paul Lancour – PodTech
So, they have a history with Intel. This is a much different an announcement that they are making today. What’s going on now in the marketplace for both Intel and for Sun that makes it a good idea for that process?

Jean Bosman - IDC
Couple of things, there are some trends out there. One of the primary, which is virtualization and with this virtualization trend what’s happening is we take something on the x86 server platform, which IDC defines, as an x86 architecture including both, the Intel microprocessor and the AMD microprocessors under that x86 name. If you look at x86, and so many virtualization products out there, in fact that’s last form. Sun talked about its virtualization offerings. What you find is, in old days we had a one server, one OS kind of approach to everything, all across the board.

Today things are a lot more kind of put together almost in the same platform at times and in fact you were able to have Solaris on x86, although you’ve got it from an OEM, who would certify it. For example, whether it was a desktop or server that was available. What this does ,what this alliance does it allows for a deeper kind of engineering and optimization, so that any time you have the operating system in the hardware and worked under the same team, you can speed up the functionality that’s true with any OS hardware combination.

So, but in fact they are working more directly here you can expect some optimization perhaps in some specific areas where Sun really has some speed spots, for example in the networking area, in the Telco infrastructures where Sun is very, very strong. There’s a lot of customized or custom Solaris code within the Telco infrastructure we’ve been looking at that as I can see as a matter of fact. And some of the hardware that is running out it is a little bit on the older side, what this does is, it provides yet another platform for that Solaris code to go to in future.

If you look at it Solaris is a very scalable operating system. Mostly x86 servers that you see today in general I think, I don’t want to name the amount of processors, but they tend not to be very large, is the opportunity for some vendors out there, who might want to make a more scalable servers based on X86 technology so another possibility.

So, there is optimization, there is virtualization, there is new potential partnerships with OEMs and sweet spots within the market, networking, Telco, maybe database, certain areas where Sun can demonstrate an expertise in supporting those workloads. So, we talk about workloads a lot at IDC, we tend to work on it.

Paul Lancour - PodTech
Looking at it from Intel’s point of view, there are market areas that they are not strong in that to — Solaris will allow them to penetrate more deeply.

Jean Bosman - IDC
Well, it’s just that you have to understand that we are in the middle of a period of IT transformation and if you work at it, there are lot of areas Telco was just one example there were others, where there has been a lot of Sun’s trends, financial services, Telco. And again, you have Solaris applications written there already. So, the idea is, here will be more places whether it would be more servers, whether it would be more virtual spaces on those servers either way. There would be more places for that combination to be run out in the environment.

The other things for interests is with virtualization such as VMware, what you are able to have is, you are able to have Solaris next to Linux, next to Windows on the same server. And again that’s a real change from that, one server, one OS, world that we had at the height of the behind of the dot com bubble, this is a different world.

And I think what you see now is it Sun and with Solaris and Java is covering all the major types of platforms they had (Inaudible), they have their own CMT chip multithreading, they still have AMD and now they are adding one more. But I think what they are doing there, is realizing whether there’s going to be a wide IT infrastructure and they want to be active in as many places on the infrastructures as possible, because it’s going to be a lot of end to end applications that are going to spin the whole enterprise and want to be able to run Solaris and Java in as many places as possible.

Paul Lancour - PodTech
Am I right in saying that the big picture on this that is being driven by the hardware in the fact that…

Jean Bosman - IDC
The hardware is being virtualized.

Paul Lancour - PodTech
The hardware is getting the coverage virtualized; they have the Duo and the Quad and the multicore…

Jean Bozman - IDC
There is a lot of power out there.

Paul Lancour - PodTech
There is a lot of power, there is an opportunity to work across operating systems and so that’s what’s driving a lot of…

Jean Bozman - IDC
well and there is something else, all of this is causing or bringing about a lot of customer choice that wasn’t there it works well, and realize that even with today’s announcement, customer still has a number of choices here with this Sun Technology stack, they can go on several processors, including two or three of Sun’s. And they can then again take their software and run on a variety of processors as well. So, it’s just really increasing the number of options that are out there, for people who already have source application, for people who are thinking of writing, or people who are thinking of moving them from one place to another.

Paul Lancour - PodTech
Ultimately the customers are going, is going to shake out ultimately by what the marketplace does. I mean it is not giving as many options to the customers, you can and then…

Jean Bozman - IDC
It’s what so hard for people to understand, if I work at a large enterprise today almost any large enterprise, I can go there and survey those large enterprises and finding a place that doesn’t have multiple operating systems and multiple pieces of hardware, would be the exception, rather than work.

So, there is already a great amount of variety, but before we had the Silos right, so here is this part of the shop, and there is that part of the shop, what’s changing out there again, to this virtualization and then changing the hardware, so that the workloads can move more freely around the network, it kind of place to Sun’s tray this is what we said and the network is the computer. So the more network centric something is, the better Sun could demonstrate this value proposition for. There is they are not going to take over the entire x86 market, this improves their position in it.

Paul Lancour - PodTech
Thanks very much for taking the time with us.

Jean Bosman - IDC
Well thank you. I finally got a Podcast, alright.

Paul Lancour - PodTech
Jean Bozman, Research Vice President of the Enterprise Computing Group at IDC. I am Paul Lancour with PodTech.net.

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Transcript:
Host: Paul Lancour - PodTech
Guest: John Fowler - Sun Microsystems
Guest: Pat Gelsinger - Intel

Paul Lancour - PodTech
I’m Paul Lancour with PodTech.net. Sun Microsystems and Intel Corporation today announced a major agreement between the two companies. The alliance is centered on Intel’s endorsement of Sun’s Solaris Operating System and Sun’s announcement that it will be delivering servers and workstations based on Intel’s Xeon processors.

The announcement was made by Sun’s CEO Jonathan Schwartz and Intel’s CEO Paul Otellini in San Francisco. Shortly after the announcement I met with Pat Gelsinger, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group, and John Fowler, Executive Vice President of the Network Systems Group at Sun, to discuss the announcement. Sun has featured some Intel processors in their servers in the past. I first asked John Fowler how this announcement is different.

John Fowler - Sun Microsystems
The historians will know that we actually used Intel processors actually going back into the 80’s and so from time to time we had products that include Intel processors, but what we did a few years ago was fundamentally change our strategy. The strategy changed in that we took Solaris and we open sourced it as well as making it widely available on x86.

The second change of strategy was we decided to get very serious about building a comprehensive product line out of x86 processors, which at the time we chose AMD and so, we’ve been doing very well. We’re sort of three years in this journey. We’ve been growing it more than 50% per quarter with that product line and so we reached a point where Intel had also recently done a vast improvement in their technology. So, we saw an opportunity to work together on some things.

Paul Lancour - PodTech
And the result of your efforts is Solaris has seen significant growth of late and Solaris is running on — was it 70% non-Sun?

John Fowler - Sun Microsystems
That’s right. Yeah, so there has been approximately seven million licenses distributed and of those 70% are on x64 platforms; the majority of which are HP, IBM, Dell that is, I mean, our numerical volume today is relatively low in that marketplace. So, those are mostly running on non-Sun which is a pretty interesting statistic. We, actually — when we do licenses, we ask people what are they going to use them on, and that’s how we track it.

Paul Lancour - PodTech
So, essentially what you’re saying is that this is a — the marketplace dictated this to a great degree?

John Fowler - Sun Microsystems
Yeah, so what has happened is, Intel has improved their technology and then interest in Solaris continues to go up and so building out a product line that includes the Intel products, and then — most importantly, I think here is, Intel is collaborating with a great engineering expertise and actually improving Solaris and making it better. So, it’s not just that they are just endorsing it. They are actually going to work on making it better with us. So, before we had to do that independently; now we can do that with Intel and that ought to really move Solaris ahead even faster on Intel.

Paul Lancour - PodTech
The collaboration with your teams of designers?

John Fowler - Sun Microsystems
Absolutely, so the engineers will be able to work on lower level features, on performance, on I/O, on reliability, to be able to work on these features in advance of Intel’s Silicon actually being available, so they’re ready to go when Intel Silicon comes out. These features will work on both systems that come from Sun as well as systems from other manufacturers such as Dell, HP and IBM, which is something that’s very important to us and obviously important to Intel as well.

Paul Lancour - PodTech
You say it is also driven not just by the marketplace, by the dictates of the customers, but also by the advances that Intel is making. Can you give us a little more information about that? What’s happening in the marketplace in terms of the hardware that’s making this happen?

John Fowler - Sun Microsystems
Well, one of the things that Intel has done is they’ve recently introduced revisions to their products, the Intel Core 2 Duo products, as you see under code names like Woodcrest and Cloverton, are very, very compelling microprocessor products to build servers out of. So, at the same time we were improving Solaris, Intel was also improving their technology offerings to build servers out of them. So, the timing is right to actually kind of put some of these efforts together, both in terms of a hardware product line that we bring forth as well as what Intel can do to accelerate our activities around Solaris.

Paul Lancour - PodTech
John, thanks very much for taking the time and now I’ll turn to Pat Gelsinger, with Intel. Pat, how’re you doing?

Pat Gelsinger - Intel
Very well, thank you.

Paul Lancour - PodTech
Very exciting day for you today with this announcement and I just want to piggyback on some of the things we were talking to John about, what is going on with Intel? Perhaps you can talk about, more specifically, the — are we seeing a shift in what’s going on in the marketplace that’s different from just a wrapping up or things are going to change drastically in the near future for your business?

Pat Gelsinger - Intel
Well, in data centers new technologies like virtualization, are becoming more important and the result of that is that this ability to take advantage of new capabilities like we’re doing in hardware and combining that with software and system features, like what Sun has a great strength in, is a great technological partnership and marriage. Our objective in this is to uniquely deliver those into the industry. That’s why today’s announcement is very exciting to us. It is a company who has those competencies, working with our engineers and delivering breakthrough capabilities into the industry, as we think no one else really can.

Paul Lancour - PodTech
One of the things that was being talked about today in the presentation is Moore’s Law being not just clock speed but also being able to diversify the way you use the chips. I wonder if you could give us a little more information about that.

Pat Gelsinger - Intel
Certainly, what we’re seeing is, is that very quickly we’re moving up to higher core count systems, higher thread capabilities as well as new technologies like virtualization, I/O technology, demand-based switching. The result of that is, is that the demands on the system to take advantage of that and to fully deliver those capabilities, really required this intimate co-operation of hardware and software.

That’s really what the great opportunity with Intel and Sun coming together today is, is to take advantage of technologies where Sun has shown tremendous capabilities in their Solaris offerings and to combine those with what we’re doing in Silicon and deliver the full capabilities of Moore’s Law into the industry.

Paul Lancour - PodTech
What was this specifically about Sun that was appealing to Intel when making this agreement?

Pat Gelsinger - Intel
Sun has, with the Solaris Operating System, the Java capabilities, what they’ve been doing in their Intel Architecture based systems over the last couple of years has shown a great ability to deliver and grow in this segment of the marketplace, and particularly at the higher end of the marketplace where our traditional share hasn’t been as strong. So, now this is an opportunity for us to extend the reach of Moore’s Law as we never have been able to before.

Paul Lancour - PodTech
Let’s talk about the specifics of the deal, so Intel has endorsed Solaris, Sun is going to be building out servers that will be out later this year?

Pat Gelsinger - Intel
Yes, the Sun has announced that they will be offering a full range of Xeon based platforms in the marketplace. The first of those will be out in the latter part of the first half of this year. So, very soon engineers are working like crazy to get those done and a full line from UP’s through MP’s enterprise, Telco workstations, so, a very broad set of product offerings.

In addition to that Intel has announced that we will be putting dedicated engineering and working with Sun at their development efforts in Solaris as well as on Java. We also have a comprehensive marketing strategies as well that go behind the relationship and then maybe the most important element is the deep technical collaborations that go behind those, which mean that it’s a multi-generational, multi-year, multi-generations of technologies and products into the future.

Paul Lancour - PodTech
Great! Well, thanks for taking out the time today to talk with us Pat and congratulations.

Pat Gelsinger - Intel
Thank you very much. A great pleasure.

Paul Lancour - PodTech
That’s Pat Gelsinger, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group and John Fowler, Sun’s Executive Vice President of the Network Systems Group. I’m Paul Lancour for PodTech.net.

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Transcript:
Host: Michael Johnson – PodTech
Guest: Danny Christophano - Intel
Guest: Laura Peterson - AOL
Guest: Andy Morad

Michael Johnson – PodTech
I’m Michael Johnson and we’re here at the International Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas Nevada 2007 and we’re about to go and explore some of the exciting things are happening inside, the World Series Of Video Gaming taking place inside the Intel Tent all driven by some of the best processors in the world. So, let’s go inside and check it out.

Here, to the Intel Tent you’ve been racing these cars. Now, you’ve got a chance to actually get into the stimulated environment with the Core2Duo processor and the Core2Extreme. Tell me how was the racing experience on the screen versus what you get on the real track.

Andy Morad
For sure you Intel, their machine is so high-tech and sophisticated, so, it’s definitely more realistic than most of the stimulators I’ve tried and probably one of the most realistic out there.

Michael Johnson – PodTech
It might be inspiring few others out there to hop into their go-carts and get on the race track.

Andy Morad
Yeah, well, if you like racing and why don’t you try a go-cart and see how it goes to goes from there.

Danny Christophano - Intel
There is so much going on in the game there are lots of processes or intensive calls that they make lots of threading that they can do with the gaming. We’re able to do not only customization of the game itself with getting the BMW car into it having a few of the replica tracks developed, but also to actually have it optimized, so it can perform better on not only Duo car, but now QuadCore our Core2Extrem Processor Technology. So, fantastic game and fantastic experience on the new Intel technology.

Michael Johnson – PodTech
What you think about what you seeing here?

Laura Peterson - AOL
Well, it just moved forward so quickly I mean 512 meg graphics cards. It’s just – when I started the gaming, there was like 32 meg, 64 meg. So, just seeing the exponential growth, this is huge in just so little time and also the cooling and the tool-core the Quad-core it’s more and more power all the time.

Michael Johnson – PodTech
So, we’ve had a great time here in the World Series of Video Gaming Tent, all sponsored by Intel; driven by the Core2Duo Processors and Extreme Processors. It’s been a great time here with the Sanaz and with Maraya, and we’re going to sign off. We did have a great time here. I’m Michael Johnson, see you next time.

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Tags: World Series of Video Gamers, Intel, CES, Gaming, Core2Duo, Core2Extreme, Core2Quad, IntelGaming

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Transcript:
Host: Michael Johnson - PodTech
Guest: Intel’s Technician

Intel’s Technician
What I’m doing is I’m taking the video that has been captured here on the greenscreen and I’m basically breaking it up in four pieces and I’m laying those — so that they’re easily overlaying each other and then using the Adobe Premiere Elements. I’m using it with what’s called Chroma Key, telling the computer that, that particular color of green remove it any place you see it from the frame. So, then you could see the multiple instances through each other. So, now that gives you the ability to put whatever background you want. Just like the undated (ph) TV news, but is that requiring tens of thousands of hardware. We’re using a $50 application in our performance PC. So, here we’ve used a Core2Duo PC. So, we got a lot of computing power to be able to render out these files very quickly and keep people moving through. So, it does take hours to render, it takes just a minute.

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Congratulations to all 600+ nominees, and thanks to everyone who helped to craft the first annual Vloggies. Special thanks again to our sponsors, all of whom contributed to making The Vloggies happen: Yahoo! Video, Intel, blip.tv, Dabble, GUBA, Intel, Revver, Pandora, and WebEx. We look forward to working with the community to continue supporting videobloggers and showcasing their work. And we can’t wait to see what next year will bring…

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Here’s the full list of People’s Choice winners:
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Documentary - Freetime
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Interview - Geek Entertainment TV
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Vlogging Books - Secrets of Vlogging
Video Hosting Provider - blip.tv
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Vlog Website Design - Galacticast

Vloggies Favorite Award Winners
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Male Vlogger - Ze Frank
Female Vlogger - Ryanne Hodson
Group - Alive in Baghdad
Corporate / Organisation - NetSquared
Comedy - Ask a Ninja
Community - Minnesota Stories
Instructional / Educational - Freevlog
Entertainment (Fiction) - Chasing Windmills
Entertainment (Non-Fiction) - LoFi St Louis
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Cooking - Freshtopia
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News - Rocketboom
Personal Diary - Josh Leo
Political - Alive in Baghdad
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Viral - Singing WoodChuck
Funniest - Ask a Ninja: Pirates of the Carribean
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Documentary - American King
Experimental Video - pouringdown TV
Interview - Alive in Baghdad
Most Controversial - Josh Wolf
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Special Effects - Galacticast
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Online Video Production Tool - videos Playing in Places
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The Vloggervangelist award is a special award given from the PodTech Vloggies planning committee to a vlogosphere activist who has done an extraordinary job promoting the vlogging medium. This award was not selected by judges or viewers, rather the vlogosphere people who have worked closely with PodTech and would like to recognize one person at each annual Vloggies event for their tireless work in helping people build and establish their vlogs! The First Annual Vloggervangelist Award Winner is Michael Verdi and for all of his work on NODE101.

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