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Here are more in depth pictures of the UMPC VW (UMPC stands for Ultra Mobile PC, which was also known as Origami as per the Microsoft code name prior to launch).  UMPCs are ultra light computing devices that you can carry with you and thanks to WiFi and WiMax connect to the Internet from just about anywhere.

The UMPC demo at Intel Developer Forum involved an UMPC that was connected to the Internet via WiMax and then connected to the VW car via WiFi.  WIth a set up like this you could send entertainment content to the car from your UMPC, such as movies or music.  Of course, there is nothing that prevents the car from connecting directly to the Internet.  In that case the UMPC can be simply included on board.

The UMPC car at the Technology showcase of IDF.

Additional to the dash display, there were two additional screens mounted behind the front seats for the viewing pleasure of the passengers on the back of the car.  Very useful for parents with little kids.

The dash screen. Simple, easy to use touch screen menus.

The dash monitor on the context of the complete dashboard.

Here is another way to mount the streetdeck unit on board, through a cup holder mount.

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I know my friend Emme would love one of these.  Meet Voltaic, a backpack that has solar panels attached to it that can charge small devices, such as iPods, cellphones and other gadgets.  The device is very good looking too. 

If you can, go and give some encouraging words to Emme, she has been living a much simpler life to contribute her bit to sustainability of this planet for six months now. She has a recent post on this.

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There has been a lot of interest on the Alan Wake pictures I published on Tuesday.  Here are a few more pictures I captured on IDF. Enjoy.

Alan Wake Video demonstration at IDF:

- El Mercurio online

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Dadi runs the Mobile group for Intel.  His speech was very interesting given his unique personality and a rather large number of achitectural innovations coming soon to Intel's mobile platforms.  Here is the pictorial story of his IDF keynote.

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Time for the General Manager of the Healthcare Group and Intel Vice President Louis Burns to hit the scene.  Louis speech was a very positive account of the progress Intel has made on this area.  Healthcare is one of Intel's Platform Groups and one that has a great potential. Healthcare is simply put, the largest industry in the planet and growing very fast.

Louis kicks off his speech.

Health care, the largest industry in the planet. An industry that is becoming larger as we live longer and diseases become more challenging to fight.

Health care is a very large portion of the GDP in mature countries, but it is also a becoming a growing part of the GDP in countries like Brasil.

What an inspiring woman, the UK Minister of Health.

Time for Monica and Monique to hit the stage, Monica a nurse coordinator and Monique a Social Scientist doing research of how to build platforms for healthcare professionals.

Monique introduces the challenges that nurses go by everyday.

Monica talks about her experience working with a specially designed tablet.  The tablet is work proof and can be washed and sanitized as any other hospital equipment.

Monica says: "We need you to listen to us. You want your nurse to be next to you at your bedside and not away at a desk typing on a computer." Very inspiring, indeed.

Wash and wear...

Intel partnered with Motion Computing to develop the specialized tablet.

Motion computing builds specialized tablets for specific markets. Health care is half of their business. Scott Eckert is the CEO, shown here when he was on stage with Louis.

Products from the Continua Allaince coming up in early 2008.

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A picture is worth a thousand words... here you have the keynote in 26 pictures...

If you are interested on reproducing some of the images, you can do it.  They have a Creative Commons license. Just give credit for them and provide a link to this entry.  For high resolution versions, please contact me at ricardo at ricardosblog dot com (sorry for the lack of link here, but I do want to avoid spam).

Keynote entrance

Paul kicking off the keynote.

Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior VP of Worldwide Product Marketing

Core 2 Duo is ramping....

Core 2 Extreme impressive performance

Paul Otellini to Markus Maki, "so overcloking is OK on this system"...

Markus Maki talikng to Paul about how their next generation gaming platform will be enabled by Quad Core.  Each processor Core can handle separate demand-heavy needs such as deploy life like scenery or catastrophes.

Remedy's next generation thriller has life-like graphics.

Landscapes and music are hollywood quality, thanks to quad core processors.

Intel ramping 65 nm processor shipments.  Who else? 45 nm coming soon...

15 Products already in development for 45 nm

Paul showing teraflop computer on a Chip.  The processing power that once was available on National Labs such as Sandia is now by the hundreds on this 300 mm wafer.

Quad Core coming in November for Servers and gaming enthusiasts, I guess this will be an awesome match for Remedy's upcoming psychological thriller.

Paul Otellini and Rackable CEO.  The computer cluster on this rack could easily make it to the World's top computers thanks to Quad Core.

Paul looks confident as the keynote approaches the final stretch.

Three cool gadgets:

- HD DVD Player in black.

- Classmate PC, an affordable notebook for emerging markets K-12 Education.

- The new set top box from DirecTV, that will allow to easily link a Viiv system to any TV set.  Coming soon from DirecTV.

New services coming to Viiv: AOL Video, Yahoo Sports - the must-have service for fantasy football fans, NBC content and ClickStar Hollywood movies on Internet download, two weeks after theatrical release.

The $1M Core 2 Duo challenge.

 WiMax enables Broadband to go.

The Ultra Mobile PC Car.  Paul Otellini and Anand Chandrasekher demonstrate a VW Car that will link to UMPC or the Internet via WiFi, WiMax.

Here is the Menu of the VW.  As you can see, you can access Audio and Video Content from a variety of sources.  This includes links to download from the UMPC and or directly from the Internet.

Music downloads available from the net directly to your car.

Paul Otellini holds the Classmate PC. This is an affordable notebook for Emerging Markets.

Classmate PC demonstrated with a proof of concept performed in Nigeria. A video was shown with the kids using the PC for educational purposes.

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- Paul Otellini IDF Keynote: $1M challenge, Quad Core, 45nm chips, Cool gadgets and UMPC VW Car

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Intel President and CEO, Paul Otellini announced the Core 2 Duo Challenge, an industry award to foster innovation in consumer PCs.  The contest will award up to 1 Million dollars to the smallest and most innovatively designed systems based on Intel’s Core 2 Duo chip and Intel’s home entertainment platform Viiv. Paul Otellini made the announcement in the kick off of Intel Developer Forum, Intel’s most important event for technology.

In the words of Intel Corporation’s press release: “On innovation, Otellini challenged the computing and consumer electronics industry to do more, to take advantage of the energy-efficient performance capabilities of Core 2 Duo processors. To do this, Otellini announced the Intel® Core™  Processor Challenge, a contest that will award up to $1 million in prizes to the PC designer or manufacturer that builds the smallest and most stylish PCs powered by an Intel Core 2 Duo processor coupled with Intel® Viiv™ technology, Intel’s premium brand for in-home, media-optimized PCs.”

Additionally to the Core 2 Duo challenge, Paul Otellini showed on stage an impressive array of technologies coming up soon from Intel.  Among the technologies that captured most of the attention from the audience were:

·        Intel^® Core^™2 Extreme quad-core processor.  Quad core for gaming enthusiasts coming up on November this year.

·        Intel® Core™2 Quad processor. Quad Core for mainstream market coming up in first quarter 2007.

·        Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 5300 series brand for dual processor servers will be shipped this year, and a new low-power 50-watt Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor L5310 for blade servers that will be shipped in the first quarter of 2007.

·        Cinema-like gaming experience demonstrated with RemedyTM.

·        45 nm technology on track for 2H 2007 production.  Three large fabs ready or under construction with 1M sq ft of clean room facilities for a total investment of $9B USD.

·        Paul Otellini demonstrated the world’s first teraflop on a chip wafer.

·        Paul talked about Broadband to Go with WiMax enabling high-speed connections anywhere.

·        Paul demonstrated an Ultra Mobile PC connected wirelessly to deliver video and location-based services.

·        Paul demonstrated a VW car that is capable of interacting via WiFi with a UMPC to download video, music and content off the Internet.

·        Paul demonstrated a Classmate PC, an affordable notebook PC for children on Emerging Markets.

A picture story of the keynote coming up soon here.  In the mean time, what do you think about the $1M award?  Will it bring exciting designs to the marketplace (or most importantly, to the living room)?

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At 8:45 Pacific Time Paul S. Otellini will kick off Intel Developer Forum at Moscone Center.  Paul is expected to do a series of important product announcements. The expectation from most members of the International press was that Paul’s keynote will provide details on the highly anticipated quad core processors.

The event started yesterday for the international press with a Research briefing for the International Press gathered here.  The briefing attended by hundreds of journalists provided details of where Intel research is focusing its innovation in the future.  Discussions included tera-scale networking or how to continue to grow the numbers in a processor to a large number in each CPU (let’s say just for the sake of example, a few hundred core on each chip).  In tera-scale computers new challenges emerge such as the challenge to communicate the cores between themselves, Intel is researching several different communications architectures to accomplish that.  Networking and mobility also occupied an important place on the discussions and the demos, with demos about how to improve wireless networks using technologies such as Virtual MIMO or Mesh.

A very interesting development was the discussion and showcase of essential computing.  Essential computing is the usage of computing to support critical life functions.  With essential computing you can, for example monitor activities of a person doing physical exercise or an elderly person living alone and act before any major health threat takes place.  This can be achieved by using sophisticated sensors that can detect what a person is eating or which medicines the person is taking and comparing them versus the daily needs.  This can be achieved with technologies such as body sensors and RFID tag on the medicines, foods and even food utensils.  The sensors were showcased and demonstrated at the IDF press briefing.

But looking farther into the future we had glimpse of Physical 3D rendering by manipulating tiny scale robots remotely.  With technologies like this you can dream about doing a car prototype demo between two labs remotely located and both can see a physical copy of the car at their tables, modified each time anybody wises to do so.  The colors, shape and many other physical characteristics can be modified on the spot.  This is of course, still far into the future, but Intel researches jointly with Carnegie Mellon University researches are working on it now.

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Over the next two weeks, Ricardo’s Blog will have continuous live coverage of two major technology events.  Starting next week, we will have coverage of Craig R. Barrett’s annual Latin America tour. The Intel Chairman will have a busy week next week with major events in Colombia, Peru, Brasil and Chile. And two weeks from now, Ricardo’s Blog will be live and on the scene for one of the main technology events in the planet: Intel Developer Forum.  

Craig R. Barrett was earlier this year named Chairman of the United Nations Global Alliance for ICT and Development.  This trip is the first he does outside of the US as Chairman of UN GAID.  He will kick start the week meeting with more than 100 technology leaders from 13 countries in Latin America in Cartagena Colombia.  This event, called the Digital Leaders Forum, will be focused on the Digital Divide and how to raise the level of competitiveness in Latin American by addressing this issue.  Craig will also host a major activity of Intel’s World Ahead Program in the City of Parintins.  Parintins is a city inside of an island in the middle of the Amazonian river. Intel joined by many Industry partners will announce a major project to link the city’s schools, governmental offices and health care centers to the internet using WiMax technology. Craig will also celebrate the 5^th anniversary of Intel Teach program in Brasil and meet with major Governmental and Educational Authorities.

At Intel Developer Forum, Intel presents major product launches and strategic product direction for the years to come.  This year’s conference will be held on the City of San Francisco and Ricardo’s Blog will be there to cover the event live.  Please stay tuned to postings of major announcements, key notes and other relevant information coming out of IDF.

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