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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:
Here’s an interview with the CEO of Veoh from Beet.TV This is quickly becoming my favorite video site. Love the quality of the video and the ability to publish once and syndicate to several other video site accounts (Google, YouTube) plus this blog. I’m still learning the ropes. In fact, I embedded their widget and it’s not quite working right…yet.
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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Following up on an earlier post, after the previews and opening of Intel’s latest build out in Second Life. This may be one of the very first places inside Second Life that lets you go underground. One thing’s for sure — getting an Intel jet pack sounds as cool as what got me first interested in Second Life last year: the guy who sold vending machines for a small cut of the action and space to sell his special zoomer rollerskates!
Jeremiah Owyang got his jetpack on and started a very good discussion on his blog. Here something from Mad Young Thing and from Millions of Us, who helped Introduce Intel to Second Life in October 2006 and continues.
Virtualization is one of the big opportunities Intel’s Digital Enterprise Groups sees can help IT pros. VMWare is playing a key role in making these possibilities a reality.
From PodTech:
Dr. Mendel Rosenblum, co-founder and chief scientist at VMWare and Min Xu, R&D engineer at VMWare, demonstrate the company’s newest virtualization technology.
Tags: Mendel Rosenblum, VMWare, Min Xu, virtualization
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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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PodTech has an interivew iwth SecondLife’s CTO and co-founder.
Many companies are operating inside Second Life — maybe it’ll become a better way and place for doing business!!
Intel has some cool stuff there — see and build your own California Chopper motorcycle, hang out with Intel’s cool software developers and more to come.
I\’m a lagard. I signed up for an account hoping to get a new laptop soon that would take me into Second Life…but my hopes haven\’t realized just yet. Soon!
Meantime, I enjoy reading posts from people\’s experience inside SL and it\’s fun to see mainstream media and companies exploring the seemingly boundless possibilities.
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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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Pulling together this story we got to meet a lot of interesting pros working in the IT industry. Guys like Josh Hilliker, Big Dave and others inside Intel seem pretty fired up about new tools for IT pros. They say the aim is “zero touch” but there are many steps to take with the help from companies using new manageability technology and IT pros worldwide who will test drive new capabilities and help Intel build new needs into next generations of vPro Processor Technology for business servers, desktops and now laptops (built with Intel Centrino Pro).
Josh also talked to us about how IT pros are using social media just like others — watch for short video clip of Josh talking on this topic. In fact, this may be one of the real pioneering communities out there using Wikis, blogs and collaborative online tools. I’m going to try and tap in and learn more about the IT community starting from the people featured in this video.
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