Gelsinger Speaks to Intel and High-Tech Industry's Rapid Technology Cadence.SAN FRANCISCO -- Intel Corporation: (Note: Photos and detailed news fact sheets available at www.intel.com/pressroom) Intel Corporation executive Patrick Gelsinger today gave a variety of updates on Intel's work with the industry on the company's processors, surrounding technologies and "tick-tock" design cadence, including new details on Intel's upcoming 45 nanometer (nm) products. He also discussed the industry's recent moves in energy efficient computing, virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. , broad range of software enabling, as well as recent system architecture initiatives spanning the popular USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. interconnect to upcoming lead-free products for the company's Intel[R] vPro[TM] desktop PCs. "Intel's development model and cadence is a predictive, efficient and effective way to deliver products and provide the industry with an exciting computing roadmap in our relentless pursuit of Moore's Law "The number of transistors and resistors on a chip doubles every 18 months." By Intel co-founder Gordon Moore regarding the pace of semiconductor technology. He made this famous comment in 1965 when there were approximately 60 devices on a chip. ," said Patrick Gelsinger, senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group, at the Intel Developer Forum Intel Developer Forum (IDF), is a twice yearly gathering of technologists to discuss Intel products and products based around Intel products. The first IDF was in 1997. There is usually a Spring IDF and a Fall IDF. in San Francisco. "In addition to our processors, we're focused on delivering energy efficiency via design of better, Hafnium-based High-k transistors as well as enhancements in overall system level architecture to minimize the computer's energy usage." During his speech, Gelsinger showed the first-ever Intel 45nm High-k metal gate next-generation microarchitecture (Nehalem) dual processor server that uses the element Hafnium hafnium (hăf`nēəm), metallic chemical element; symbol Hf; at. no. 72; at. wt. 178.49; m.p. about 2,227°C;; b.p. 4,602°C;; sp. gr. 13.31 at 20°C;; valence +4. instead of silicon in portions of the 700 million-plus transistors inside the processor die, which is about the size of a postage stamp. Nehalem is the codename of a new processor microarchitecture arriving in 2008 that will provide up to three times the peak memory bandwidth of current competing processors. He also showed broad industry support for the Intel[R] QuickPath Architecture. The QuickPath Interconnect provides high-speed data paths to Nehalem's processor cores. In addition to compute performance and memory bandwidth, Intel continues to provide leadership in I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output when Gelsinger announced the formation of the USB 3.0 Promoter Group. This revolutionary architecture will use a single connector and cable delivering over 10 times the performance of USB 2.0 while preserving backwards compatibility to more than 2 billion existing USB devices. Along with Intel, the promoter group has been formed with HP, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. Corporation, NXP Semiconductors, Microsoft, and Texas Instruments Incorporated. USB 3.0 will be the first I/O interface to include support for both optical and copper interconnects, scalable protocol, and energy efficiency optimizations for use in the PC, consumer electronics, and mobile segments. Gelsinger reviewed Intel's QuickAssist Technology and its escalation of industry product development. QuickAssist Technology, first disclosed at the IDF (Intermediate Distribution Frame) A wiring rack located between the MDF (main distribution frame) and the intended end user devices (telephones, routers, PCs, etc.). Cables run from the outside world to the MDF and then to the IDFs. See MDF and wiring rack. in Beijing in April, is Intel's suite of hardware and software technologies addressing the unique requirements of accelerators in enterprise platforms. He reviewed the first Intel device to include the Intel[R] QuickAssist Integrated Accelerator for cryptography, codenamed Tolapai. With availability targeted for 2008, Tolapai - a system on a chip - will deliver significant improvements in power-efficient performance and form factor with up to eight times the IP Security throughput, up to 20 percent reduction in power, and up to a 45 percent smaller footprint over previous multi-component security solutions in embedded and communications market segments. On the heels of the latest-generation roll-out of Intel vPro processor technology, Gelsinger revealed plans to further evolve security and PC management benefits through the 2008 product codenamed McCreary. McCreary will include new halogen and lead-free 45nm dual and quad-core processors, a new chipset codenamed Eaglelake, an integrated Trusted Platform Module In computing, Trusted Platform Module (TPM) is both the name of a published specification detailing a microcontroller that can store secured information, as well as the general name of implementations of that specification, often called "TPM chip" or "TPM Security Device" (Dell). (TPM (1) See TP monitor. (2) (Transactions Per Minute) The number of transactions processed within one minute. See TPS. (3) (Trusted Platform M ) and a more secure, manageable data encryption solution codenamed Danbury. Danbury technology builds data encryption and decryption (cryptography) decryption - Any procedure used in cryptography to convert ciphertext (encrypted data) into plaintext. directly into the hardware providing greater protection of encryption keys and allows much simpler system management and key recovery. Intel Active Management technology Intel Active Management Technology (AMT) is a hardware-based technology which facilitates remote out-of-band management of PCs by using of a small secondary processor located on the motherboard. also enables these operations to occur in "out-of-band" environments, meaning even if the OS is down or inoperable inoperable /in·op·er·a·ble/ (in-op´er-ah-b'l) not susceptible to treatment by surgery. in·op·er·a·ble adj. Unsuitable for a surgical procedure. . Bob Heard, founder and chief executive officer of CREDANT Technologies, discussed how their software security solutions can be improved in the future by leveraging Danbury and vPro technology. Mark B. Templeton Mark B. Templeton is the CEO of Citrix Systems, Inc. He attended North Carolina State University, where he was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity. He has an MBA from Darden Graduate School of Business Administration. External links
John Fowler, executive vice-president of Sun Microsystems, appeared with Gelsinger and pointed to the virtualization "wave" that Intel and other technology leaders are driving through the industry. Parallels demonstrated how they are taking advantage of innovations such as Intel Virtualization Technology See VT. and Intel Trusted Execution Technology Trusted Execution Technology (TET or TXT), formerly known as LaGrande Technology is a key component of Intel's initiative of "safer computing". Intel claims that it will be very useful, especially in the business world, as a way to defend against software-based to provide protection for virtual environments in future workstations and desktop PCs. Gelsinger pointed to a wall of computer systems that Intel will deliver to suit most users' computing and cost needs. He showed how customers, such as Paradigm, will use Intel Xeon[R]-based workstations with a new 1600MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. front side bus and Intel software tools to solve scientific problems, such as oil and gas exploration. Mark Barrenechea, president and chief executive officer of Rackable Systems, discussed Rackable's ICE Cube1 Modular Data Center on Wheels, which has 1400 quad core Intel Xeon servers in a single 40-foot truck container. Gelsinger also discussed the improvements that solid state disk technology can bring to enterprise server and storage technology for IA platforms. He announced that products delivering substantial improvements in read performance and power savings from Intel utilizing non-volatile memory technology will be available next year Gelsinger shared his vision for I/O consolidation on Ethernet and steps to get to a converged network that supports both Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and local area networks. In support of this vision, he announced availability of Intel[R] 82598 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller now with full support for FCoE solution stack coming in 2008. Intel, the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com/pressroom. Intel, Intel Core, Centrino, Viiv and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the United States and other countries. 1Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. |
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