IDF Spring 2008: two first days
Date: 08.04.2008 |
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Day One
The official part of IDF Spring 2008 was opened by Patrick P. Gelsinger, senior vice president, general manager of Digital Enterprise Group. Gelsinger who devoted his almost 30 years of work to Intel reported on Intel's most recent advances in various fields.
 His report is titled "Milliwatts to Petaflops", that is a vague hint to Intel's latest products. Indeed, in the forthcoming months the first supercomputer whose capacity is over 1 petaflop will be created. Gelsinger also reported on the first 6-core Dunnington processors, as well as the next-generation CPU architecture codenamed Nehalem, on the update of the Itanium family called Tukwila. There was also a story of the multicore GPGPU-project Larrabee with 2 bln transistors onboard and support for the Advanced Vector Extension vector commands. The materials on that topic we published quite recently on our web site, and you can read the here and here. As an example, they demonstrated a cluster with 32 8-core processors built on the Nehalem architecture.
 Then Anand Chandrasekher, Intel's vice president and general manager of Ultra Mobility Group, took the floor. The key topic of his speech was Intel Atom processors and the Intel Centrino Atom platform. For its main ideas, read the material of our colleague, and here we bring in live photos from the presentation.
Anand Chandrasekher
Anand Chandrasekher
Anand is holding a prototype of the Moorestown platform in his hands, which is coming to replace Intel Centrino Atom
A system prototype of the system based on Intel's Atom CPU
By the moment of publishing this material, the official presentation of renewed school notebooks Intel Classmate PC will have been complete in Shanghai, so you can safely tell of the shortcomings found - by now, almost everything is known. Specifications of the products:
- housing: 2 colors (blue and gray), water-proof, rubberized;
- maximum admissible ambient temperature in operation: 40 C;
- battery operation time: 3.3 hrs (4-cell battery), 5 hrs (6-cell);
- battery charging time: 3 hours (40 W CPU);
- CPU: Celeron-M 900 MHz;
- chipset: Intel 915GMS;
- power consumption of the platform (CPU+chipset): about 11 W;
- screen: 7" (800õ480 dots) or 9" (800x480 dot);
- RAM: DDR2-400 256/512 MB;
- storage: 1 GB (for the Linux version only), 2 GB or 4 GB, there is space for fitting an 1.8" hard disk;
- keyboard: 77 keys (9 languages);
- network features: Ethernet 10/100 Mbit/s, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, MESH 802.11s;
- web camera: optional, 640õ480@30 fps;
- weight: 1.29 kg;
- other features: SD card reader, optional support for the Digital Pen;
- price: $250-400.
The notebooks are manufactured by ECS. As regards the operating system, Classmate PC notebooks will be shipped with both Windows XP and various Linux versions (Mandriva, Ubuntu, etc.). Interestingly, by the end of this year Intel is planning to upgrade its product through installation of a more powerful processor (Intel Atom), modern chipset (945GSE), and increase the RAM and permanent memory capacity. Schoolchildren will also get a screen of better resolution (8.9", 1024õ600 dots). The differences among the three generations of Classmate PC can be seen on the following slide:
By now, the project is being implemented at 70 schools of 31 countries of the world, including Russia. Although the project is aimed mainly at developing countries, it is being implemented in the USA as well. In conclusion, a few photos of Classmate PC widely displayed at the stands of expo halls.
This is a brief summary of the first two days at IDF Spring 2008. Perhaps it has proved somehow chaotic, but unfortunately you have to write on the fly - the hectic schedule of the Forum leaves no other options. Stay with us for new exclusive publications and news items.
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