Another Day, Another Keynote
Today is the second day of IDF, and today is the Enterprise, Workstation and Mobile coverage in the keynotes.Intel has a vision to find out about new ideas and then run with them; working with people within the industry so that not only Intel, but their partners prosper. We suspect that Intel would do a lot better than their partner.
Bill Siu started off his keynote talking about the new technologies which Intel would like to bring in to play, last year was PCI-Express, and this year they want to have more of a movement towards power management and 64bit technology
Intel’s model works on the line of bringing down the cost of products by manufacturing products previously fabricated in non silicon on a small scale and moving them to large scale, low micron, and silicon products. This leads to large economies of scale.
They want to collaborate with partners specializing in security, reliability and scalability in a similar way that they have done with communications
The collaborations which Intel need to model includes:
- Multi-Node Communication , video, audio etc.
- Multitasking – responsive PCs and Servers, without compromise
- Access to Information – with seamless connectivity.
Within the digital desktop they believe that hyper threading, dual display, integrated AP, TPM 1.2, High definition audio, stable image, gigabit Ethernet, and Matrix RAID are all key elements.
Intel demonstrated the BTX 12.9 and 6.9 solutions – Granstadale and Alderoowd – high performance in a small form factor; we believe that Intel has done this since they have seen the success of the Shuttle XPC solutions and the like. The idea of the BTX solution is that by reducing the size of the main board, and re-designing the airflow out of the vents they can get higher performance cooling in a smaller package.
Intel have the wireless network Access Point connected, and have a snazzy little application enabling you to have a wireless connection. The only thing really which is needed is some sort of Wireless charging solution?
Intel want to make the shift towards advanced media smoother by giving better encoding and decoding of audiovisual signals.
They also want to make the move from Hyper-threading to 2 physical cores on 1 die for more responsive ”dual CPU” solution, it sounds like they may well be phasing out HT technology.
On the mobile front, Intel believes that the productivity increase with the mobile solutions is increased massively – this is working on the fact that customers will work from home more maybe? The deployment of WiFi hotspots has been very rapid – this is exponentially increasing currently. Enabling better remote working from outside the home. This is the movement of Dothan and Sonoma – Aliviso, Calexico 2enabled solutions with 802.11 a/b/g.
Security is one of the highest demands in any companies, and the highest cost, and implications within any IT company. By minimizing breaches, protecting company information and balancing, security and productivity. Intel believe that the La Grande Technology sits on top of HT, NX (No Execute), TPM, Smart Cards and then a software layer will help this considerably.
Intel believes that they can reduce the cost of $370 per PC in management cost with new features – stable hardware platform and a stable software one.
Future technology which they are working on is Enhanced asset management and remote diagnostics.
With Vanderpool technology they want to enable people to have multiple particles and legacy support – with the use of new apps and OS, and old Apps and old OS running on an OS image – on the platform hardware.
The idea is that you run a virtual machine which allows you to run on different platforms – very similar to what can already be done – I believe it is more of a solution than a hardware gain.
