Microprocessor developer supreme Intel is currently in the midst of their annual Intel Developer Forum, a platform for the company to highlight upcoming technologies and future goals.
During one of yesterday’s sessions, Sean Maloney, Intel Corporation executive vice president and co-general manager of Intel’s recently formed Mobility Group, gave a keynote speech detailing Intel’s plans concerning the mobile technology industry.
“The industry is driving a new wave of innovation that feels a lot like the early days of the Internet era,” said Maloney. “Before Internet technologies, there was a tremendous amount of information in computers around the world – but it was locked into one location, one terminal, one user. With the advent of the browser and other technologies, this deluge of data became instantly available to people around the world.”
Maloney continued, “Now, with innovations in Wi-Fi and WiMAX technologies along with developments to make smarter, more efficient laptops, cell phones and PDAs, the industry can help take that experience even further and bring it to more people than ever before.”
During his keynote, Maloney highlighted a number of innovations and developments, which Intel is preparing to unleash on the public:
Intel Centrino mobile technology platform (codenamed Napa)
Intel’s first 65nm dual-core mobile-optimized processor (codenamed Yonah), a new chipset and next-generation Intel wireless solution.
Some of the new technologies planned for Yonah that will improve the performance, power and design of mobile platforms include:
Intel Digital Media Boost – rich digital multimedia content creation
Intel Advanced Thermal Manager – enhanced thermal monitoring, accuracy and responsiveness
Intel Dynamic Power Coordination – automatically adjust the performance and power between the two processing cores
Maloney also mentioned Intel’s mobile phone entry, Hermon, would be shipping later this year.
Another area that seems to drive Intel’s interest in mobile technologies centers on WiFi broadband. The more it grows, the more Intel’s level of interest increases.
“Over the last year, we estimate the number of engineers in the industry working on WiMAX-related technologies has increased tenfold. We’ve also seen the number of WiMAX carrier trials increase from two to 15 on its way to more than 75 before the end of 2005 and more than 200 companies have joined the WiMAX Forum,” said Maloney. “This is great progress, but as the data shows, we’ve only achieved limited broadband coverage, which gives our industry a great opportunity to deploy applications and services much more affordably using broadband wireless technologies.”
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