Technology grows beyond the PC

Sam Diaz: During the opening keynote speech at the Intel Developer Forum, CEO Paul Otellini delivers a simple message: We'll keep innovating on the technology front and you keep building the next big things. Intel wants developers to be able to just build once, not for multiple platforms.

IDF 2009: The top 9 takeaways
Larry Dignan: Larry Dignan: The Intel Developer Forum wrapped up and there are a few weeks worth of presentations, keynotes and technical sessions to mull over. In the meantime, here are my top takeaways.
Intel's Light Peak to cut the cables
Stephen Shankland CNET News: Intel unveiled technology called Light Peak that it hopes ultimately will replace the profusion of different cables sprouting from today's PCs with a single type of fiber-optic link.
Intel unveils the Net-savvy CE4100
Larry Dignan: Eric Kim, senior vice president at Intel, revealed a new Atom-based CE4100 chip which is designed to bring Internet content and services to digital TVs, DVD players, and advanced set-top boxes
Intel offers peek at 21st Century television
Sam Diaz: 3D football anyone? By 2015, expect to see 500 billion hours of video content on the cloud and 12 billion devices capable of receiving “TV” content via the Internet.
Intel brings Nehalem to notebooks
Rupert Goodwins ZDNet UK: Intel has moved its latest desktop and server chip architecture to the laptop with the announcement of its 45nm Core i7 mobile processor.
SSDs are coming
Rupert Goodwins ZDNet UK: An Intel researcher said mass corporate take-up of solid-state disk drives is almost upon us. He predicts SSDs will cross the floor price of hard disks, driving mass adoption into the corporate market.
Intel: 32nm is just the beginning
John Morris: Intel hasn’t released its 32nm Westmere processors yet, but executives spent the first day of the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) talking about technology even farther down road.
A look at smart signs and digital slot machines
Larry Dignan: Executive Vice President Sean Maloney shows off a new digital billboard and virtual slot machine that can be remotely managed and reprogrammed on the fly using Intel’s vPro processor technology. (video)
Dinner with AMD...does an ARM linkup make sense?
Tom Foremski: Every year AMD holds some shadow events around IDF because it’s a great opportunity to piggyback off of Intel’s efforts to bring together thousands of developers and reporters from around the world.
Intel on laptop chips: Speed kills
Sam Diaz: Intel today announced its Core i7 Mobile Processor for laptop computers, as well as an "Extreme Edition" version designed for gaming machines. But it's not just clock speed they're touting.
Intel to developers - write apps for Atom
David Meyer ZDNet UK: Intel is calling on developers to write applications specifically tailored to systems running its low-powered Atom processor.
Intel's Moblin demo looks promising
Larry Dignan: Intel product manager Claire Alexander shows Intel CEO Paul Otellini a demo Moblin, which will include next-generation mobile features such as a touch-screen interface..
Intel's Maloney: Meeting demands of new data center
Sam Diaz: Executive VP Sean Maloney says the data center is undergoing a major transformation these days and that three elements - computing, storage and networking - are beginning to overlap.
Windows 7 gadgets on display at IDF
Larry Dignan: Intel CEO Paul Otellini shows off some new consumer devices optimized to run Intel processors and various versions of Windows 7. He also looks at the company’s next-generation microprocessor, Sandy Bridge, running on Windows 7.
Intel teases 22 nanometer chips
Larry Dignan: At the Intel Developer Forum, CEO Paul Otellini says Moore's Law is still alive - and puts Intel's future - 22 nanometer process technology on display to prove it.
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