Hardware IDF Day 1 - Paul Otellini's Keynote

Following his absence last year, Paul Otellini returned to the limelight with the opening keynote at this year's Intel Developer Forum. We take a look at what was announced.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cpus/2009/09/23/idf-day-one-otellini/1

 

Some interesting elements there, the car side doesnt bother me so much but the smartphone does, but there's a fair old wait on that from intels forecast...hope that fever wasnt too bad Timmy!

peace

fatman

 

I find the tick-tock image (http://images.bit-tech.net/content_images/2009/09/idf-day-one-otellini/ticktock.jpg) very interesting, I had classed Nehalem as a Tick rather than a Tock but apparently not!

They are clearly going on the process (Nehalem being the 2nd 45nm one) rather than architecture, with Penryn being a tock of the original Core 2s

I do really like the look of Moblin, the hardware (mockup I presume?) looks great. It does seem rather like they are trying to make Atom fit into the smartphone rather than making a solely smarthphone-oriented processor though. I am not so sure that my next phone will be running an Atom but we shall see...