January 29, 2013, SNIA Non-Volatile Memory Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Andy Rudoff from Intel the special requirements for programming NVMs. The technologies are capable of much greater bandwidth, reduced latency, and are creating a new storage classification; persistent memory. This new set of functions is able to retain data through power cycles and other upset events [...]
November 2012 – At the 2012 Server Design Summit, they held a panel on future directions for Servers amid the current industry discussion about power efficiency, throughput and performance. The panel was moderated by Sergis Mushell of Gartner and featured Ed Gasiorowski of Applied Micro, Jeff Underhill of ARM, David Borland of Calxeda, Devid Kassel [...]
September 17, 2012, storage developer conference, Santa Clara, CA—Paul Luse from Intel explained how NVM express can deliver PCIe SSD performance and scalability. This new standard uses the PCIe electrical and mechanical specifications and layers on storage-based protocols. NVMe is a Windows driver-centric standard that takes pieces from previous standards and combines them into the [...]
August 28, 2012, Hot Chips Symposium, Cupertino, CA—This year’s Hot Chips key topic was power management. Intel, AMD, and MIPS all talked about re-architecting the cache controller to reduce misses and, as a result, greatly reduce power. Other major changes included new logic cells and significant architectural changes in other functional units. Power and performance [...]
September 12, 2012, Intel Developer Forum, San Francisco—Intel announced a new developer zone to aid their customers in producing new products. The new zone is a consolidation of all the other software and development sites and will address the issues facing developers. The site will include tools, collateral materials, and message boards to allow community [...]
August 7, 2012, Santa Clara, CA. We talked with Ryan Tabrah, Product Manager, Intel Media SDK and Codecs and Suresh Rangarajulu, Marketing Manager for Intel HD Graphics about new SDKs for iA (Intel Architecture) products. The new tools are directed towards developers planning to create new applications for the soon to be released Windows 8. [...]
May 24, 2012, MEMS Business Forum, Santa Clara, CA—Sandhiprakash Bhide senior strategist and futurist from Intel described his view of the near future as a world where computers are aware of all of you, environment, emotions, health, and many more aspects. An increasing diversity of sensors and actuators will change the way computers and humans [...]
May 21, 2012, Opem Source Business Conference, San Francisco—Elliot Garbus from Intel presented “Sparks of intelligence: where smart devices connect mobile users to open data centers”. He noted that systems need to change to adapt to the emergence of big data. One of the first drivers for today’s data explosion was a pack of gum. [...]
February 20, 2012 – The theme of the microprocessor session at ISSCC was no longer raw speed and performance, rather it was data processing throughput per watt of power. Low power and reduced stages for data processing were the key. The session opened with Intel presenting the 22nm introduction of their new ivybridge processor which [...]
August 18, 2011, Hot Chips 23 Conference, Stanford, CA—George Cox from Intel described the design for a digital random number generator (RNG). This building block is used for creating keys for cryptography and the higher the randomness, the better. To date, the highest randomness is entropy and the increasing need for security calls for something [...]
