Technology Innovation Accelerated Award Winners Announced; Lenovo Takes Top Prize in Inaugural Awards Program.SAN FRANCISCO -- Lenovo's demonstration of its ThinkPad(1) X41 Tablet captured top honors at the inaugural Technology Innovation Accelerated Awards held 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. Seventeen demos vied as finalists for the awards, which recognize technological pioneering and adoption of Intel's new platform strategy. The company's platform strategy centers on the integration of suites of hardware, software, services and support that enable new capabilities for people in all facets of their lives -- at work and at home, in productivity, information, entertainment and healthcare. Lenovo was a triple winner, taking Best of Show for its ThinkPad X41 Tablet demo that also took top honors in the Mobility category. Lenovo's demo of a ThinkCentre(1) M52 featuring Intel(R) Active Management Technology won first place in the Digital Office category. The complete list of categorical winners: --Data Center -- VMware for its Hardware Assisted Virtualization Technology. The demo showed an Intel(R) Xeon(TM) processor with Intel(R) Extended Memory 64 Technology (Intel EM64T (Extended Memory 64 Technology) The first name of Intel's 64-bit x86 CPUs. In 2006, the name of the technology was changed to "Intel 64." See Intel 64. ) and Virtualization Technology running VMware Virtualization Platform for consolidation of heterogeneous OSes. --Digital Home -- AVerMedia Technologies for its AVerTV MCE See Media Center Edition. Media Expansion Card, a PCIe interface dual tuner and HW MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) An ISO/ITU standard for compressing digital video. Pronounced "em-peg," it is the universal standard for digital terrestrial, cable and satellite TV, DVDs and digital video recorders (DVRs). encoders TV tuner card A TV tuner card is a computer component that allows television signals to be received by a computer. Most TV tuners also function as video capture cards, allowing them to record television programs onto a hard disk. with DVI output capability that utilizes the Intel 945G SDVO SDVO Serial Digital Video Output SDVO Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned interface. Demonstrated was a cost-effective Windows XP Media Center Edition See Media Center Edition. solution with Intel 945 Platform. The live demo included TV viewing and PVR function in Windows XP Media Center Edition. --Digital Office -- Lenovo for its ThinkCentre(1) M52 featuring Intel(R) AMT See vPro. . The demo showed remote provisioning of a powered down client system through Intel AMT. --Mobility -- Lenovo for its ThinkPad(1) X41 Tablet demonstration that also won Best of Show. Demonstrated was the product's function with LANDesk software. The demo showed off the product's superior mobility, security, performance and ease of use. The ThinkPad X41 Tablet features Intel(R) Centrino(TM) Technology (Pentium M 758, 915GM, Intel 2915ABG ABG abbr. arterial blood gas ABG 1. Arterial blood gas 2. Axiobuccogingival–dentistry , Intel GMA, and DDR2 RAM). --Research and Technology -- 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. for its 64-bit Montecito Solution. The NEC Express(1) 5800 series 1000 platform supports three generations of Itanium(R) processors in a single system: McKinley, Madison and Montecito. The Express 5800 will run applications written for all generations of Itanium. The Express platform can be configured as separate partitions or as a single symmetric multi-processor. --Storage -- Promise Technology for its SuperTrak Ex8300 with IOP IOP intraocular pressure. IOP Intraocular pressure, see there 331 processor RAID 6 Multiple Drive Failure. The demo highlighted Promise Technology's emerging solutions for RAID, an emerging technology for shared storage systems and the large, high-capacity SATA (Serial ATA) A serial version of the ATA (IDE) interface, which has been the de facto standard hard disk interface for desktop PCs for more than two decades. The original Parallel ATA (PATA) interface was launched in 1986. disk arrays used in many servers today. All exhibitors and sponsors of IDF were eligible. Judging the 17 finalists, narrowed down from 30 total entries, were hundreds of journalists and analysts covering the three-day technical conference at Moscone Center. "Promoting technology leadership efforts driving Intel's evolution to a platform strategy, the Technology Innovation Accelerated Awards recognize companies and individuals who take a creative approach in creating exciting new products through technologies that promise to exceed customer expectations," said IDF General Manager Rob Chapman. Intel plans to expand the awards program internationally, and hold a 2nd Semi-Annual Technology Innovation Accelerated Awards at IDF in March 7-9, also in San Francisco. About the Intel Developer Forum Now in its ninth year, IDF is the premier global technology forum for hardware and software developers to confer on Intel-based platforms, technologies and solutions, and the new usage models they enable. More than 25,000 technology experts come together at IDF in more than a dozen countries each year. Visit www.intel.com/idf for more information. Intel, the world's largest chip maker, is also a leading manufacturer of computer, networking and communications products. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com/pressroom. (1) Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Intel is a mark or registered trademark of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. |
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