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Rupert Goodwins' IDF Diary
Blog At last, IDF itself. Tuesday 17/02/2004 Which means the first keynote, which means it's time to find out whether what everyone expects -- the 64 bit extensions to the Pentium -- are going to happen. On the way to the show, however, there's more...
[February 20, 2004, 16:05]
Rupert Goodwins' IDF Diary
Blog But right now, two days before it kicks off, IDF means just one thing: new shirts. This year, the Spring IDF is in San Francisco, always a romantic city. Clearly, my fellow Europeans at IDF are a similarly conscientious and mathematically gifted...
[February 20, 2004, 16:05]
Rupert Goodwins' IDF Diary
Blog Last day and for many of those attending IDF, traditionally the tastiest. Thursday 9/9/2004 Chief technical officer Pat Gelsinger is the chap in charge of Intel's crystal ball, and this is the time he gets to give it a good rub in public.
[September 10, 2004, 18:30]
Rupert Goodwins' IDF Diary
Blog Then came Mr IDF himself, Pat Gelsinger. And so we hit the full-on IDF. All Star Trek fans know what that means — and indeed, the red shirt count dropped dramatically as IDF progressed. Ties are as out of place in IDF as bikinis in Riyadh.
[March 20, 2006, 12:00]
Rupert Goodwins' IDF Diary
Blog Last day of IDF, and things are picking up. I learn… that IDF is over. Thursday 9/3/2006 I learn that the latest EFI version — UEFI 2.0, the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface, which is replacing the threadbare BIOS — has grown more networking...
[March 20, 2006, 12:00]
Rupert Goodwins' IDF Diary
Blog Monday 22/08/2005 - Part III There were all the right things said about standards (perhaps Intel has learned something from UWB, but then again it always says the right thing), some good technical stuff about multiple radios, and we were back on...
[August 30, 2005, 13:55]
Rupert Goodwins' IDF Diary
Blog Alas, the demos don't all go to plan -- another traditional IDF entertainment -- but some are simply puzzling. Today's keynote is more of the same. Mike Fister, manager of Enterprise Platforms, has grown a rather exciting Mexican Bandito moustache.
[February 20, 2004, 16:05]
Rupert Goodwins' IDF Diary
Blog Monday 6/9/2004 It's been more than a day since I crawled out of Virgin Flight 19 into the San Franciscan sunshine, and I still can't work out whether checking-in online the day before was a good idea.
[September 10, 2004, 18:30]
Rupert Goodwins' IDF Diary
Blog Monday, 17/02/03It's Intel Developer Forum time again. Intel, always assiduous in such matters, invites a journalist or so from all those enlightened publications which cover the chip world, and once again the ZDNet UK lot falls upon me.
[February 19, 2003, 16:51]
Rupert Goodwins' IDF Diary
Blog Tuesday 23/08/2005 - Part III Our first WiMax dignitary is a vice-mayor of Chengdu in China, who faces the camera with determination. He speaks no English, and so the initial conversation is with a third party who hands over.
[August 30, 2005, 13:55]
Rupert Goodwins' IDF Diary
Blog IDF proper kicks off tomorrow but as the global brotherhood of IT journalists is hereby assembled, Intel has to do something with us. IDF has many powerful overtones of a tribal gathering, with Big Chiefs uttering gnomic insights, acolytes rushing...
[February 20, 2004, 16:05]
Rupert Goodwins' IDF Diary
Blog Tuesday 23/08/2005 - Part II Barely had we recovered from our Google-propelled ride to the far reaches of our stomachs than Sean Maloney pitched in with the Mobility Keynote. Now, Sean is a Brit made good - he's executive vice-president and manager...
[August 30, 2005, 13:55]
Rupert Goodwins' IDF Diary
Blog Tuesday 23/08/2005 - Part I At last! The show's afoot and Paul Otellini fronting the first keynote. It's so exciting," said Nick Knupffer, our boyish, long-suffering and permaholidaying minder, "that I deliberately haven't read the press releases...
[August 30, 2005, 13:55]
Rupert Goodwins' IDF Diary
Blog Sunday 21/8/2005 It's Sunday, I'm in San Francisco the day before the work starts and I'm out taking pictures with one eye on the fog and one on Flickr. It's all very well being part of a vibrant, experimentally minded and consistently challenging...
[August 30, 2005, 13:55]
Rupert Goodwins' IDF Diary
Blog Monday 22/08/2005 - Part I Mull of Kintyre might have the mists rolling in from the sea, but SF has rapacious mountains of fog thundering across the city like a ghostly army overrunning an undefended village.
[August 30, 2005, 13:55]
Rupert Goodwins' IDF Diary
Blog Monday 22/08/2005 - Part II The most interesting bit of the talks came next with Professor Eric Brewer, who runs Intel's lab at Berkeley, and his next big thing - technology for developing regions. He ran through a litany of facts and myths at...
[August 30, 2005, 13:55]
Rupert Goodwins' IDF Diary
Blog You might have thought that it had some role to play in the digital entertainment industry - but there's nary a hint at IDF. Wednesday 24/08/2005 There was a classic Knupffer moment last night, towards the end of the evening's press party.
[August 30, 2005, 13:55]
Rupert Goodwins' IDF Diary
Blog Indeed, Rattner was leading another trend at IDF, the move away from the blue shirt and the khaki slacks. I promise faithfully to tell you why all of this matters just as soon as I manage to rid myself of the image of Otellini in Speedos, a picture...
[August 30, 2005, 13:55]
Rupert Goodwins' IDF Diary
Blog Wednesday 8/9/2004 Things are looking up. I try the 'Japanese Breakfast' in the hotel, which turns out to be a sizable chunk of salmon and enough sticky rice to give a man stamina for the most buzzword-enabled keynote Intel can contrive.
[September 10, 2004, 18:30]
Rupert Goodwins' IDF Diary
Blog It's a good idea to show your commitment to developing markets by having your chief executive publicly welcome the first delegation from the Chinese government ever to visit IDF; it's a bad idea when that lets a disrespectful British journalist...
[September 10, 2004, 18:30]
