Intel will discuss increasing mobility, the digital
home, and the "tera era" of large data sets and complex
applications at its Spring Intel Developer Forum (IDF) which takes
place next week in San Francisco.
The IDF will focus on not only the technological achievements of
its research and development labs but on ways to integrate those
technologies into IT projects that make sense in the real
world.
Intel will also host the inaugural Solutions Conference, which
targets at IT managers and software developers.
Speakers at the Solutions Conference will talk about Intel's
focus on bringing technology to specific vertical industries such
as health care or manufacturing, as well as Intel's own strategies
for deploying technology across the company, said John Davies,
vice-president in Intel's sales and marketing group and director of
the solutions market development group.
Intel chief executive officer Craig Barrett will kick off the
show discussing why he believes Intel has emerged from the
recession as a stronger company and will also show some of the
products and technologies that will maintain that strength into the
future.
Louis Burns, vice-president and general manager of the Desktop
Platforms Group, will detail Intel's digital home strategy.
Intel will also talk about the future of Intel's Xeon and
Itanium processor lines and the next generation of desktop
processors and chipsets that will boost performance on today's
software as well as future programs.
Sources have said that Intel will demonstrate its long-awaited
x86 extensions technology and a processor with 64-bit extensions to
the 32-bit x86 instruction.
The company will announce an enhanced Intel Xeon processor for
dual-processor servers and workstations during the show.
Dual-processor servers and workstations have been the primary
vehicle for Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron processor with x86
extensions technology that has been adopted by major server
suppliers such as IBM and Sun Microsystems.
Anand Chandrasekher, vice-president and general manager of the
mobile platforms group will review the progress of the past year
and the future of the Centrino package in different types of
clients besides notebooks.
Sean Maloney, executive vice-president and general manager
of the new Intel Communications Group, will talk about "the
broadband wireless wave" and make an announcement about Intel's
next generation flash memory technology.
Senior vice-president and chief technology officer Patrick
Gelsinger will end the conference focusing on the "tera era", the
emergence of applications and data sets that require terabytes of
memory or terabits per second of bandwidth.
New architectures and enhancements to existing hardware will be
needed to make that era possible, Gelsinger said.
These architectures will also create new applications in areas
such as visual recognition or graphics virtualisation that are not
possible with today's technology.
Most of those applications will not be ready until the end of
the decade, but some might emerge sooner.
Tom Krazit writes for IDG News Service