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1. Intel and Apple are at the crossroads

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   Wednesday, 23 September 2009

   This week is IDF, and last week I spent some time with Andy Grove talking about saving the country. This week is IDF, and last week I spent some time with Andy Grove talking about saving the country.Andy may ...

2. Word is, Windows 7 for Netbooks won't be crippled

   (Software/Software Features)

   Sunday, 20 September 2009

   IDF Fall 2009 Sources tell us here in San Francisco that there will be a version of Windows 7 for netbooks that won't have most of the functionality leeched out of it.Sources tell us here in San Francisco ...

3. Intel's talking about my g-g-g-generation

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Sunday, 20 September 2009

   IDF FALL 2009 - UPDATED - There's a two day countdown to the Fall Intel Developer Forum (IDF) being held at the Moscone - pronounced Mosconay and not Mosc One - and already the busy bees at the Santa Clara ...

4. Virtual worlds more effective than web conferencing, soon more so than real life?

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Wednesday, 17 December 2008

   ... virtual worlds in recent years. At Fall IDF 2007, Justin Rattner gave an on-stage presentation lasting over 30 minutes on the 3D Second Life website. He showed how easily people can create 3D avatar characters ...

5. More shady dealings at Circuit City, this time on Black Friday

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Monday, 01 December 2008

   ... of this article (me, Rick) purchased a Toshiba notebook at a Circuit City in San Francisco last year during Fall IDF. At that store something similar happened. The only notebook they had left in stock ...

6. USB 3.0 spec finalized

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 17 November 2008

   ... on store shelves. SLIDESHOW: First appearance of USB 3.0 at IDF Fall 2008 (6 pictures) Following Apple’s decision to abandon its Firewire technology at least in some of its systems ...

7. Developers get a close look at USB 3.0, products expected in 2010

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Thursday, 06 November 2008

   ... appearance of USB 3.0 at IDF Fall 2008 (6 pictures) The USB Implementers Forum will hold the first “SuperSpeed USB Developers Conference” on November 17 and 18 in San Jose, the organization ...

8. Intel phases out first 45 nm processors

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Wednesday, 05 November 2008

   ... drives Intel first introduced Turbo Memory as a way to help PCs boot faster. During a demonstrating at Fall IDF 2005, a notebook was shown to be nearly instant-on with the technology. It was also ...

9. Intel jumps into SSD market

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 08 September 2008

   ... are you a mainstream SSD customer, as defined by Intel? Intel’s SSDs, first unveiled two weeks ago at the company’s fall IDF , are now officially available. They come in 1.8” and 2.5” form factors, called ...

10. Intel imagines wireless power for your laptop

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 21 August 2008

      Intel traditionally closes its Developer Forum with a visionary keynote that provides a glimpse into Intel’s labs and how the company’s engineers think about how technology could shape the world ...

11. New SATA standard expands to 600 MB/s, enables next phase for SSD performance

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 21 August 2008

      SATA 3.0 has made its first appearance at IDF, as peripherals are slowly but surely approaching the limits of SATA or SATA-II. The latest SSDs are hitting data transfer rates of 250 MB/s, close ...

12. InTru 3D is Intel’s new presence in Hollywood

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Wednesday, 20 August 2008

    Intel and Hollywood are two words that that just sound strange when used in one sentence and at least Intel’s first serious try to join Oscar winning actors on the red carpet was canceled. But while ...

13. Netbooks and MIDs need some Apple Magic

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Opinion)

    Wednesday, 20 August 2008

    ... be exactly what Netbooks and MIDs need. This is IDF week and I have been especially interested in those upcoming Netbooks and MIDs.  I have both the HP and the Dell Netbooks in house and in use ...

14. Planning on buying a Nehalem PC for Christmas? Try in late 2009.

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 20 August 2008

      News about the much anticipated Nehalem processor architecture coming out of this year’s IDF Fall are not quite as comprehensive as expected and given the Q4 launch date of the first CPUs, the ...

15. Intel holds briefings on its research projects

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 20 August 2008

    On the eve of the Intel Developer Forum (August 19-21), Intel held a number of briefings focused on research. Jim Held, Intel Fellow and director tera-scale research computing program, introduced ...

16. Intel tests mass storage waters with new SSDs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 19 August 2008

    ... that the company’s background justifies this business expansion as an additional revenue source. In fact, the SSD announcement at IDF could mark the birth of a new mass storage giant that can compete with ...

17. IDF Fall 2008: Intel reveals more Nehalem details, announces 6-core server CPU

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 19 August 2008

    Intel announced that the first Nehalem processors to be made available will be desktop processors (Core i7) and high-performance server products code-named Nehalem-EP. Intel said it is planning to ...

18. Craig Barrett wins hearts and minds at IDF

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 19 August 2008

      It wasn’t your typical Intel Developers Forum keynote speech.  Intel’s Chairman of the Board, Craig Barrett, didn’t talk about die-sizes, nanometers or wafers, but instead prodded the audience ...

19. IDF Fall 2008: Lucid samples graphics parallelization chips

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 19 August 2008

    Lucid said that it has begun shipments of Hydra reference designs, a technology that allows system vendors to integrate multiple graphics cards in a single computer. Called the Hydra 100-series, the ...

20. IDF Fall 2008: NEC promises speed-up for Wireless USB

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 19 August 2008

    NEC today announced that it has begun sample shipments of its new device wire adapter (DWA) LSI chip to enable wireless communication between a Wireless USB host system (such as a PC) and USB 2.0 peripherals. ...

21. Can AMD survive another Core 2 Duo?

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Friday, 15 August 2008

      Opinion – IDF is just around the corner and Intel will provide a flood of new information about its upcoming Nehalem (Core i7) processor as well as its 32 nm and 22 nm successors, new architectures ...

22. First USB 3.0 demos at IDF next week?

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 13 August 2008

    ... at next week’s IDF in San Francisco. Santa Clara (CA) – Intel today sent out a press release stating that its “Extensible Host Controller Interface (xHCI) draft specification revision 0.9 in support of ...

23. IDF Fall 2008: Intel un-retires Craig Barrett, AMD sets up anti-IDF camp

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 11 August 2008

    ... quarter, will be the technical highlight during the conference and be the source for more news topics than we have seen at any previous IDF, if we believe Intel’s promises. Here is a quick outlook on ...

24. Intel graphics update: Ray-tracing the way to go for game developers?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 07 August 2008

      Interview – Lots of graphics tech tradeshows are on the calendar for the coming weeks - Siggraph 2008 in Anaheim, IDF Fall in San Francisco, Games Convention in Leipzig and Nvision 08 in San Jose. ...

25. Intel to lose its lead in chip manufacturing tech in 2009, sort of

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 30 July 2008

    ... in development at its research, development and production facilities in Hillsboro, Oregon. 45 nm Nehalem CPUs will be the focus at the upcoming fall IDF, but it is generally expected that prototype 32 ...

26. Intel will move Larrabee quickly into desktops, notebooks

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 22 May 2008

    ... head-to-head with Nvidia/AMD in the graphics arena. Larrabee is currently scheduled to debut in the second half of 2009 at IDF Fall in San Francisco, which means that we should expect this card in the ...

27. Nvidia's NVISION 08 set to challenge IDF, MacWorld

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 16 May 2008

    ... begun beating the drums for its first NDF (Nvidia Developer Forum), which is turning into a three-day Woodstock for the IT industry. Unlike closed-down or semi-public events like IDF, GDC, E3 or MacWorld, ...

28. People “probably won’t” need discrete graphics cards anymore – Intel

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 03 April 2008

    ... with Intel's Ron Fosner Fosner made these comment while demonstrating Intel’s ‘Smoke’ demo at the Technology Showcase at IDF.  We posted a short version of the demo a few days ago and you can watch ...

29. Intel shows off massive two-billion transistor Tukwila and diminutive Atom at IDF

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 02 April 2008

    ... with the diminutive Atom chip.  Hosted in Shanghai, a city famous for skyscrapers clashing with old shacks, this IDF was a spectacle steeped in Asian formality.  While there were some juicy ...

30. VIDEO – Intel shows off Nehalem’s power with fire and smoke

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 01 April 2008

      Intel’s is showcasing the power of its upcoming processors with a new ‘Smoke’ demo which rains fiery destruction upon a virtual shack.  Slated to debut later this year, the multi-cored Hyperthreading ...

31. Fairchild Semiconductor turns 50

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 20 December 2007

    ... him in person at Fall IDF 2007.  He has nothing but respect for what this industry he helped shape has accomplished.  Jerry Sanders, of course, went on to found AMD in 1969.  And Federico ...

32. Silicon nanowires boost Li-ion for 20-hour notebooks

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 20 December 2007

    ... the usable life. Conclusion When I interviewed Mooly Eden at Fall IDF 2007 in San Francisco, CA, I asked him if he was aware of any new battery technologies which would significantly impact the usable ...

33. ClearSpeed's CATS purr along at near teraflop speeds

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 14 November 2007

    ... IDF 2007, when Hodgin asked a ClearSpeed representative the status of this issue, he was told that the next silicon revision would have the fix, but that it wasn't in production yet.  That question ...

34. Claim: Moore's Law saved by new fab process at 45nm

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    Monday, 12 November 2007

    ... at Fall IDF 2007. Read more ... EE Times.      ...

35. Tech Tour Terascale: Developing Terascale 2

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 05 November 2007

    ...  When I spoke with the Terascale folks at the recent Fall IDF 2007, we were told that approximately 100 separate teams were involved with Terascale research in one way or another.  Today that number ...

36. Intel's Skulltrail enthusiast platform running at 5.0 GHz

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 31 October 2007

    ... about a working Skulltrail version, but since IDF Fall much has happened:  During my visit, Intel senior performance analyst Francois Piednoel unveiled a nearly completed Skulltrail prototype motherboard ...

37. Intel's first high-volume 45nm fab goes online

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    Thursday, 25 October 2007

    ... Penryn is the code-named for Intel's upcoming processors, set to be released on November 11, 2007. TG Daily was on hand at Fall IDF 2007 in San Francisco, CA, and was able to see some of the upcoming ...

38. Ubuntu's "Gutsy Gibbon 7.10" release Oct 18 with a full 3D GUI

    (Software/Software Brief)

    Wednesday, 10 October 2007

    ... Intel have begun showing significant interest in Ubuntu, with Intel even going so far as devoting significant stage time and a keynote interview to Ubuntu and its team during their Fall IDF 2007, the Ubuntu ...

39. New material breakthrough brings quantum computers one step closer

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 08 October 2007

    ... computers are approaching maximum theoretical limits.  At Fall IDF 2007, Gordon Moore gave an interview with NPR's Dr. Moira Gunn wherein he explained that real, hard limits are coming, the kind ...

40. DivX 6.7 provides 1080p HD video and enhanced audio features

    (Software/Software Brief)

    Wednesday, 26 September 2007

    ... at Fall IDF 2007 we learned DivX has included support for Intel's upcoming Penryn architecture since version 6.6.  Read more on the DivX website.  ...

41. Intel pushing for global WiMax adoption in 2008

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 26 September 2007

    ... IDF 2007.  Several live examples were made with WiMAX enabled devices including watching YouTube videos during a keynote from various floor displays as well as a remote location in Utah by an alleged ...

42. x86 gunning for ARM market share in mobile spaces

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 26 September 2007

    San Francisco (CA) - At Fall IDF 2007, Intel gave several keynote presentations and classroom sessions whereby they talked about the mobile Internet enabled future.  One thing was clear:  the ...

43. Itanium notably absent from IDF 2007

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 26 September 2007

    San Francisco (CA) - One notable facet of Intel technology was markedly absent from Intel's most recent IDF:  Itanium.  This reality has forced more than one journalist to ask the question:  ...

44. Robot car seeks to win traffic race

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 21 September 2007

    ... the West Moscone Center at Fall IDF 2007, escalator patrons were greeted with a specially modified 2006 Volkswagen Passat named "Junior".  The Stanford Racing Team has hopes this car ...

45. IDF Fall 2007 Wrap-up

    (Event Coverage/Event Coverage Features)

    Friday, 21 September 2007

    Wrap-up of our coverage of the Intel Developer Forum Fall 2007 (September 18-20) with all stories and images.   IDF Fall 2007 September 18-20, 2007     Top  ...

46. Intel seeks collaboration, open protocols and a 3D Web

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 21 September 2007

    ... and final day of Fall IDF 2007, two keynotes were given which really drove home Intel's adoption of open community collaboration and social environments.  Discussing primarily the software side ...

47. Skulltrail shows off some 45nm Penryn prowess

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 20 September 2007

    At Fall IDF 2007, Intel extended TG Daily an invitation to preview some upcoming 45nm Penryn computing. From notebooks to exteme macines, 45nm was on display. San Francisco (CA) - At each IDF there some ...