Executives will offer up information on new desktop and mobile processors such as Intel's forthcoming Banias mobile chip. But the company will also detail its thoughts on subjects such as PC form factors. "It's not just going to be the technologies, but also a vision for where we're trying to take the desktop, long term," Gelsinger said. Later Wednesday, Intel will offer up its view on handhelds and cellular phones. The company will touch on its Personal Internet Client Architecture or PCA and provide more detail on its new Xscale chips for PDAs. Intel will use the developers' forum as a stage to further new technology standards and initiatives. The conference's technology du jour will be Serial ATA II. Serial ATA II -- an offshoot of the Serial ATA standard for transferring data between components inside PCs -- will expand the performance and features of the standard to address networking and server applications. ATA II will address RAID systems, for example. "We're taking the core serial ATA... allowing people to build larger storage configurations such as storage area networks," Gelsinger said. Intel will also discuss a draft of a new third-generation input-output or 3GIO specification. The company will discuss faster Pentium 4, Celeron and mobile chips too, of course. It's saving those announcements for the event's later stages.
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