 |
IDF Spring 2008 Content Index
Author: bit-tech StaffPublished: 2nd April 2008
Here's a handy link to all our content from IDF Spring 2008, live from Shanghai, China! Highlighted stories are of extra special interest.
First stories are at the bottom, latest stories at the top. Links open in a new window.
Day Two
- Intel's vision for ray tracing exposed
Director of Intel Research, Andrew Chien, talked with bit-tech about the future of ray tracing and its chances of making it to the big time.
- Yorkfield still has availability problems
Intel's 45nm Yorkfield desktop processors are still not as widely available as they should be. We have some answers... kinda.
Day One
- Moorestown to give MIDs the shrink
Anand Chandrasehker showed off a Moorestown PCB at the end of his keynote. It's smaller than a credit card!
- Intel to release its own SSDs later this year
Intel is set to release its own Solid State Drives later this year. Performance looks impressive so far.
- Calpella is Nehalem based, will follow Montevina
Calpella is the platform that will follow on from Intel's upcoming Montevina platform. It's based on Nehalem.
- Intel to deliver MIDs to market within 60 days
Anand Chandrasehker said this morning that Intel will deliver Mobile Internet Devices to market within 60 days.
- Montevina will double IGP performance
Dadi Perlmutter showed Intel's next-gen Montevina mobile platform running several 3D games. He said it'll double IGP performance in games.
- Gelsinger kicks off IDF Shanghai with Larrabee
Pat Gelsinger kicked off IDF this morning with talk about how he believes Larrabee will change the visual computing industry.
Pre Show
- Intel has answers to CUDA
Intel's researchers talked about a new parallel programming model called Ct - it's designed to make threading exceptionally easy.
- Atom is word of the week in Shanghai
We're out in Shanghai, where Intel will spend a lot of this week's Developer Forum talking about its Atom processors.
Shopping
Stats: 0.110 seconds