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Finding your way with Chinese GPS
Blog I'm going to write to the PRC Embassy and ask for guidelines - but not before I get my visa for IDF in Shanghai in April. Nature reports today that the Chinese authorities are cracking down on foreign researchers doing environmental monitoring in...
[February 20, 2008, 20:05]
Knuth: multicore engineers 'out of ideas'
Blog They do nothing, and I say that having sat through more IDF demos of hyperthreading, dual, quad, eight and manycore chippery than is allowed under the Geneva Convention. Donald Knuth (yes, that Donald Knuth) has given a long and interesting...
[April 29, 2008, 12:19]
Intel chief Craig Barrett talks strategy
News One of Intel's top server business executives, Mike Fister, told reporters at the IDF that Pentium III Xeon chips, particularly the 700MHz Pentium III Xeon, are in tight supply. In a wide-ranging interview at the Autumn Intel Developer Forum...
[August 23, 2000, 8:46]
AMD Athlon 64: the benchmarks review
Reviews The P4 EE, announced at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF), has an average energy dissipation of 94 Watts -- the maximum could be in excess of 100 Watts, a new record for a desktop CPU. Intel distributed samples of the Pentium 4 Extreme Edition to...
[September 25, 2003, 16:35]
Rupert Goodwins' San Jose Diary
Blog He's off in Taiwan this week, and has missed IDF for the first time in living memory: even the Intel execs are slightly unnerved by his absence and crack the odd nervous joke as if even mentioning his name might summon him in a cloud of sulphurous...
[September 19, 2003, 18:25]
IBM's supercomputer chip breakthrough more PR than IT
Blog I saw it at IDF in September. The chief researcher on the project emailed me with the actual paper and some (very restrained, in the circs) explanation of what's actually going on. Look for a follow-up, just as soon as I've cleared up a couple of...
[December 6, 2007, 14:43]
Intel hops on the file-sharing train
News Gelsinger may call for creation of a standards body during his IDF talk. The old-guard chip giant later this month will attempt to prove it can get down with the baddest Net players when it announces a plan to ignite development of more peer-to...
[August 9, 2000, 13:38]
Thursday
Blog See Chips Central for all the latest news from IDF. The day passes sensibly --- a technical session here, a keynote there -- but the spirit of Intel Developer Forum Spring 2003 is parsimonious. A passing press relations officer rather smugly says...
[February 19, 2003, 16:51]
The Big Interview: Pat Gelsinger
News You can clearly envision, and this is an easier discussion to have after IDF [Intel Developer Forum] than it is today, so we'll have to have the next instalment of this discussion after 17 April, but you can see the lower end of the product line...
[February 26, 2007, 13:39]
700MHz PIII's to ship in Oct, as Merced wows PC makers
News The Easy PC Initiative, which was announced at the Spring IDF last February, will bear fruit this week as it shows off designs for new, easier to use PCs, due later in the year. Barrett put down the fly rod to deliver the Intel Developers Forum...
[September 1, 1999, 9:01]
Intel sees PlanetLab as Net's future
News The Internet needs to be upgraded with a new layer of abilities that will deal with imminent problems of capacity, security and reliability, Intel chief technology officer Pat Gelsinger said Thursday.
[September 10, 2004, 10:20]
Yahoo, Intel preview interactive TV platform
News At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel's Eric Kim and Yahoo's Patrick Barry demo a new TV platform designed to bring rich internet applications, featuring sports, weather, and financial information, to the living room.
[August 21, 2008, 14:56]
Intel's virtually there with Montecito
News Intel engineers and planners released a few more details about the forthcoming dual-core Itanium chip code-named Montecito on Thursday at the Intel Developer Forum. Focusing on virtualisation, the process where one chip can pretend to be multiple...
[September 10, 2004, 9:20]
Intel: Montecito or bust?
News Following Intel's first public demonstration of its latest Itanium -- the dual-core Montecito -- Abhi Talwalkar, general manager of Intel's Enterprise Platform Group, talked to ZDNet UK about future plans for the technology, how Itanium is...
[September 9, 2004, 10:40]
Intel homes in on entertainment
News Home PCs able to serve multiple high-definition video streams over secure wireless links are key to the long-predicted digital home, Intel said at its Developer Forum on Wednesday. The company also pushed its dual-core Pentium processor -- without...
[September 9, 2004, 10:35]
New memory chips get closer, faster and smarter
News Researchers from Intel, bolstered by a panel of third-party manufacturers, updated the Intel Developer Forum on Wednesday on developments in enterprise system memory standards. Today's most popular system, Double Data Rate, is currently available...
[September 9, 2004, 10:30]
Future portables go much faster all day, says Intel
News Intel predicted major innovations in mobile technology at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco on Wednesday. In a keynote speech and subsequent briefings, Anand Chandrasekher, general manager of Intel's mobile platforms group, revealed the...
[September 9, 2004, 10:05]
Intel unveils parallel-coding tools
News At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, company general manager Renee James announces a new suite of parallel-coding tools designed to work with Microsoft Visual Studio. The tools will support Microsoft's concurrent runtime environment...
[August 21, 2008, 16:03]
Intel takes broadband to the WiMax
News Intel predicted three years of solid development in wireless broadband on Tuesday as it showed the first samples of a chip for WiMax equipment. At its developer conference, the Intel Developer Forum, the chipmaker announced that the part, code...
[September 8, 2004, 10:00]
Intel admits Itanium failings
News In a rare admission, an Intel executive said on Tuesday that the company's high-end Itanium chip family still isn't living up to popularity expectations. Are we meeting the specific goals this year? Not to the aggressive levels we've set," Abhi...
[September 8, 2004, 9:20]
