XtremeQuest is a pretty cool series that takes you inside the workrooms to meet PC gamemakers who are developing new titles that take advantage of Intel’s Core 2 Quad processor. The four-brained chip is allowing game developers to split up the game so that particular functions or engines are run on each of the four slivers of silicon inside the Quad core CPU.
Here’s the latest episode:
Leaping from mega to giga to tera hertz started off being about speed, but then things took a right turn and we now find that computer “performance” is taking on new meaning. Speed and the ability to multitask are what we see when we get a new computer. But just as important — at least to today’s chip designers, software developers and researchers — is efficiency. Doing things faster, more things at the same time and conserving battery life or electricity are the cornerstones of every novel idea that goes into making the most complex things ever created by man…the computer processor.
Here’s a video I shot of my buddy Sean Koehl at Research@Intel Day 2007 as he swiftly describing some crazy complex research Intel is doing to ready the world for a day when computer processors will have 10s to 100s of brain cores in a single chip.
In addition to his five day jobs working in the corporate technology group, Sean is also an editor and contributor to the newly released Intel Reseach blog.
I hear the Doors’ Jim Morrison singing: Ride the snake… This is one doozy of a handycam take on the crazy line of people waiting to get their hands on the latest rock start — the Apple iPhone. Here’s Jeremiah Owyang’s MOS — was there an end to that line?
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Intel CTO may have the coooolest, most interesting job in technology. Intel’s first ever CTO was Pat Gelsinger, who is a valcano of passion for technology and a real fireball of inspiration. Justin moves fast, but he has a way of putting you back in your seat in marvel. Justin seems to empower and celebrate people around the world. Intel’s Research efforts took a big turn at around the year 2000. The company does math, and the math showed it it needed to expand R&D at an even faster clip. The challenge was on…the result was creative and bold. The company embrased an open research approach where it worked closely with Universities around the world. It went to where the people and brains are around the world. The Intel researchers I’ve met over the past seven years are everyday people, from every part of the world, but a step beyond.
This is a great conversation between PodTech’s Jason Lopez and Justin. The two have talked a half a dozen time in the past few years. They have good chemistry — must have something to do with the subject…research!
Justine also kicked off the new Research@Intel blog with an interesting, “we’re learning” approach.
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Hey, Bloggers! Come to Research@Intel Day (Wed. June 20, Santa Clara, CA), says Intel’s blog and social media pioneer Josh Bancroft. Josh was featured in a Wall Street Journal special section article yesterday titled Wikis at Work by Vauhini Vara.
Research@Intel was born from an effort to do an open labs science fair for Intel employees, but over the years it’s become a great day for international press, analysts, family and others linked to tech industry research interested in seeing what Intel’s cookin’ up — seems there’s ever more processors in more things, all the time! This year, I’m looking forward to checking out:
All the places where Intel is looking to queeze more energy efficiency into everything it makes. Maybe we’ll see some early work that will benefit the recent Intel-Google www.ClimateSaversComputing.org efforts
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Sitting today, mobile tomorrow — energy efficiency plays super well towards the trend of helping people to be more mobile, rather than tethered to an office, a wire or whatever keeps people from doing what they need and want to do. Wireless, security, video, voice, future devices and meet new needs. Maybe we’ll get to see updates on projects like this
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Era of Tera — multi-core processors — many slivers of silicon built together on one chip — is rapidly pulling on to the horizon computers that can do trillions of floating-point operations-per-second (terFLOPS) of performance and terabytes of bandwidth. Maybe we’ll learn more about research around 80-Core chips like this story
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This year at the Intel Science and Engineering Fair, top high school students from around the world competed in New Mexico to big scholarships and honors. Intel Chairman Craig Barrett puts his heart and will behind education, particularly math and science. This year he talked about young scientist from pockets of the world who stand to speed progress in their homeland.
PodTech’s Jason Lopez spoke with Dr. Barrett prior to ISEF and hopped on a plane to talk with students at the competition. Lopez has a way to pouring his passion and intrigue into an interview that ignites great, engaging interviews. Here’s his collection of stories he collected at ISEF.
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This is the second in a five-part audio and video Podcast series on the latest technology for consumer (Intel Centrino Duo) and business-class (Intel Centrino Pro) laptops. This first audio report was recorded at the San Francisco launch event, where companies analysts, press and companies like EDS, HP, Altiris, Lenovo and others gathered on May 9. What stood out most at the event was that many at the event felt that server and desktop computers could now be managed together with a company’s fleet of laptops.
In the next few Podcast reports, we’ll try to explore how IT experts — including Intel’s IT department — look for ways to improve managability and ROI of their computers.
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When creating videos with Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, it hit me. We wanted Adam and Jamie — and Carl’s Fine Films — to help us create a series of shorts that would be a gift for fans of Adam and Jamie’s TV show, “Mythbusters.” Something that really captured their scientific know-how, enginuity and funny-bone hitting antics. Something that Intel fans would see as whacky, creative and cool beyond Intel’s bread and butter storytelling antics — citing the wonders of Moore’s Law and how Intel’s chip design and every increasing transistor count keeps impacting the way we live.
My pal “simma down now” Larry said it succinctly: viral not commerical. Give a gift that keeps on giving. In that spirit, we released the three Adam and Jamie videos first on YouTube on May 8.
Then the next day, we played the videos on new laptops at the Centrino Duo and Centrino Pro launch, but this highlights video was created to kick off the presentations to the press and analyst on May 9 in San Francisco.
We tried many new things here, including me posting these videos on videos sites I’ve been learning about (see slideshare foil set). Another thing keeps hitting me. During all of this, I’ve never been more aware of my role of being an Intel employee, a video story director AND a fan living in the real world. It was the fan inside that helped me make the most important decisions, which kept these videos from becoming too commercial. After all, these were for sharing in hope that fans would enjoy and share with others.
We get to go inside Intel’s Mobility Demo Lab at the headquarters building just prior to the release of the new technology consumer and business-class laptops — Intel Centrino Duo and Pro.
Karen Regis knows the technical of technical marketing, but she also has fun sharing how new chips and integrated technologies really boost laptop performance.
Jeffrey Lo is in his element inside the lab. He’s a trusty “demo God” who has done some of the memorable demos for Andy Grove (back in the day) and has seen mobile computers advance from clunky, slow, toatable things to super stylish, sleak, super-performing computers that more and more people want…need in their daily lives.
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The Intel Developer Forum in Beijing gave us an opportunity to see how businesses, tech developers and people are working with Intel. This is a fun, visual romp through Beijing and the Intel Technology showcase during the week of April 16, 2007. Intel commissioned PodTech’s Jason Lopez to capture the buzz and his personal experience. This is not about specific products or announcements. It’s about people getting together and changing the world.
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