Beginning this week, you can think of Baltimore as one big hotspot. The computing potential for a city that’s completely wirelessly connected is huge. No matter where you are, you are connected. Simply put, it is the next generation of mobile broadband access.

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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.

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This year’s Spring IDF took place in Shanghai.

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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.

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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.

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Alianza offers the first hosted, fully-integrated IP-based platform for delivering Unified Communications Applications via software as a service (SaaS)s. Value-added applications include VoIP, hosted PBX, IVR, integrated messaging, and conferencing. With business-friendly solutions including a rich help-desk and integrated billing systems, partners can lean on Alianza to drive a new revenue stream from existing customers. Services providers can access Alianza’s partner resources to quickly review the business benefits and ROI models of partner vs. build.

Scott Bell, chief technical office at Alianza, introduces Brad Baldwin to the value proposition and opportunity offered to service partners.

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In other news, Intel will launch Santa Rosa Refresh in January 2008. It’s an update to Intel Centrino processor technology that includes the next-gen 45nm high-k mobile processor (codenamed Penryn).

Perlmutter also showed the next generation Montevina processor technology that is set to roll out in mid-2008, which includes the Penryn mobile processor and the next-generation chipset with DDR3 memory support. This is notable for being Intel’s first Centrino processor for notebooks to offer the option of integrated Wi-Fi, WiMAX wireless technologies for greater wireless broadband access.

Anand Chandrasekher, Intel senior vice president and general manager of the Ultra Mobility Group, discussed the personal mobile Internet, and Intel’s “silicon roadmap” that will deliver radical reductions in power requirements and package sizes. He also announced a range of leading industry players working with Intel to establish the MID and ultra-mobile PC (UMPC) categories. In a talk entitled, “Unleashing the Internet Experience,” he also covered the upcoming Intel Menlow platform (including a new processor, codenamed Silverthorne - lots of detail can be found on John Spooner’s blog), and the Intel “Moorestown” platform — System on Chip plus a Communications Hub.

The talk also amounted to a check-in after last April’s announcement at IDF Beijing of the MID Innovation alliance with Asus, BenQ, Compal, Elektrobit, HTC, Inventec and Quanta. Chandrasekher was able to show working prototypes from many of the partner companies, emphasizing the significant progress that’s been made over the past six months.

Also announced were strategic collaborations for MID and UMPC efforts — a step forward for Intel’s “Full Internet in Your Pocket” vision.

And the keynote included what Intel billed as the “world’s first demonstration of Adobe AIR Application on Intel Menlow-based platform” — designed to extend the reach of rich Internet applications.

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Arvind Sodhani, president of Intel Capital, points to global “hot spots” — including what Intel’s Ken Kaplan writes are the five hottest. Intel Capital is working closely in those areas to help new companies find markets around the world.

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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.”

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Bhaskar talks about the advantages offered by WiMAX, and reasons why WiMAX will become a successful technology. He also shares Sify’s plan for the future and its competition with ISP’s and telecom companies.

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We speak with Sujai Karampuri, the founder and CEO of Sloka Telecom, a company that aims to be an important player in the WiMax market in India.

Sujai has 10 years of wireless experience in product development, system architecture and strategy formulation. He has worked with Alcatel in the U.S. and Europe for seven years, where he focused on GSM wireless networks. Later, as system architect for Nortel Networks Division at Sasken, Bangalore, he was involved in overall architecture of GERAN products. Sujai obtained his bachelors from REC, Warangal and got his masters from Michigan Tech, Houghton.

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Reporter’s Notes:
Some interesting blogosphere buzz about WiMax: Katie Fehrenbacher on GigaOm wonders how Clearwire will fit in. Carlo writes in Techdirt notes the timing of Sprint’s announcement, with the AWS spectrum auction just around the corner. Mobile Tracker points out that up and download speed will make or break WiMAX’s ability to
compete with DSL and cable modems. I wonder if Sprint Nextel’s announcement will have any impact on the network neutrality debate.

-Catherine Girardeau

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“Mobility is defining the future of computing. The broadband Internet is becoming a conduit for all content - entertainment, education, government, business and commerce. To reach its full potential, broadband Internet needs to be ubiquitous… and to be ubiquitous, it must be mobile. Sean Maloney’s keynote will lay out how the industry will create ubiquitous mobile computing, including Intel’s roadmaps for notebooks, smartphones and broadband wireless technologies. At the same time, the high performance, lower power technologies at the heart of the mobile revolution are now driving the entire computing industry… one can look to mobility first to see “what’s next”.