Intel's Paul Otellini vision of mobility

Paul Otellini, Intel CEO and President presented the third CES 2008 keynote address yesterday. The core of the message is allowing the Internet to come to you, rather than you initiating requests. This of course will require more processing power and broadband everywhere, especially on mobile devices. Intel plans on delivering the technology for both. They have announced the Menlow series of chips for mobile smartphones and the Canmore series of chips for consumer electronics providing integrated connectivity. They are continuing with their efforts to get WIMAX implemented and have working networks in 70 countries. The video clip below demonstrates a working model of how they envision the Internet coming to you on a mobile device, however this particular mobile device prototype has a cord attached to two dual core machines. Intel's goal is to place that kind of processing power directly in the mobile device.

Comments

[Chris Carlin]

It took two dual core machines to power THAT? Other than the voice recognition, which can be offloaded over broadband anyway, the rest of the demo should have required a small fraction of that processing power.

The future certainly looks bright for Intel if programming has fallen to such an inefficient level.

[Stephen Skarlatos]

I agree, I think in addition to the programming, compilers are not as efficient as they should be.