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…
August 10, 2011, Flash Memory Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Knut Grimsrud from Intel discussed the next frontier in SSDs. The industry is moving towards new approaches to connectivity and system software to enable order of magnitude improvements in performance. In small data centers, HDDs are being replaced with SSDs resulting in a 20 times reduction in…
July 11, 2011, IMEC Smart Phone Forum, San Francisco—Justin Ratner, CTO at Intel, talked about the increasing demand for computing. He noted that last year manufacturers shipped almost 10 billion transistors for every person on earth or a total of 74.5 quintillion transistors. The compound annual growth rate for transistors in this century has been…