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IDF Shanghai 2008: Atom-Enabled Devices To Debut

03:35 | Jason Lopez | Mar 17th, 2008 5:00am |

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 ...

Mobile Internet Devices Make a Splash at CES 2008

03:00 | Catherine Girardeau | Jan 15th, 2008 |

Intel continues to develop smaller and smaller microprocessors, and to fit them into elegant platforms to run just about any kind of computer, from sophisticated server arrays to a brand-new class of ultra-portable devices, known as Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs). MIDs created some genuine buzz at CES 2008 in ...
Live from IDF: WiMAX and the Future Wireless Broadband Internet

30:17 | Catherine Girardeau | Sep 19th, 2007 |

Keynotes from two Intel executives — David (Dadi) Perlmutter and Anand Chandrasekher — kicked off Day 2 at Intel’s Fall IDF in San Francisco. First up, Dadi Perlmutter, Intel senior vice president and general manager of the Mobility Group. He covered the latest trends in mobile computing, touching on ...
IDF Beijing: Where Does Wireless Go From Here?

16:53 | Catherine Girardeau | Apr 19th, 2007 |

In this keynote from Day 2 of the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing, David (Dadi) Perlmutter and [tag]Anand Chandrasekher, Senior VP and General Manager of the Ultra Mobility Group, discussed the latest trends in mobile computing, and rolled out Intel’s strategy around Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) and Ultra-Mobile PCs (UMPCs). ...
UMPC and Yahoo! Go

07:05 | Michael Johnson | Nov 3rd, 2006 |

Marco Boerries, Yahoo!’s senior vice president of connected life, chats with PodTech’s Michael Johnson about Yahoo! Go and the company’s vision of the UMPC category.

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UMPC Goes Auto

05:48 | Jason Lopez | Oct 11th, 2006 |

Intel says its Ultra Mobile PC is designed to give users full PC capability in places where a laptop is too big or clunky. How about in a car? A project with Volkswagen looks fairly promising. It would provide three users with access to three screens installed in the front ...
The Ultra Mobile PC, in Action at IDF

05:02 | editor | Oct 2nd, 2006 |

Liliana Rojas works in the Ultra Mobile PC Group at Intel. At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco this past week, she spoke with PodTech’s Michael Johnson about some of the cool applications of the UMPC to take the Internet everywhere you go, specially inside of the ...
Intel CEO Paul Otellini Presents the UMPC VW at IDF

05:09 | editor | Oct 2nd, 2006 |

At the recent Intel Developer Forum, Intel CEO Paul Otellini takes a virtual test drive in a Volkswagen kitted out with Intel’s UMPC. A map to a nearby coffee shop, a complete music collection and movies for the back seats (complete with infrared headsets so everyone in the ...
Liliana Rojas on Ultra Mobile PC at IDF San Francisco

05:17 | Michael Johnson | Sep 29th, 2006 |

Liliana Rojas works in the Ultra Mobile PC Group at Intel. At the IDF in San Francisco this past week, she spoke with PodTech’s Michael Johnson about some of the applications intended to aid a seamless flow of information access from notebook to car (and more).

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Intel Mobility Experts Discuss Ultra Mobile PC Technology

05:57 | Rio Pesino | Sep 26th, 2006 |

Ultra Mobile PCs were on display today at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, CA. Intel’s Pankaj Sinha and Rochelle Whelan met with PodTech’s Rio Pesino to discuss how the technology compares to PCs and laptops, as well as the challenges UMPC’s currently face in the marketplace.

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