Innovation, processing performance and cooperation key to moving forward faster

At the Intel Developer Forum (IDF), Intel Corporation executives detailed more than 20 new products, technology innovations and industry initiatives aimed at making the internet, computers and consumer electronics devices much more responsive, friendlier and secure.

"Welcome to the era of multicore, an era in which all of our computing capabilities will multiply our own personal capabilities," said Justin R Rattner, Intel's chief technology officer.

"This Beijing developer forum will show how our multiple innovations go hand in hand with evolutions in social networking, PC and TV entertainment, online commerce and other growing demands on the internet. Today, Intel is delivering a breadth of multicore processors worldwide and a product roadmap providing the incredible performance boost and energy efficiency needed to put the consumer more in control of the information age."

The IDF is being held for the first time in Beijing. Last month, Intel announced plans to invest $2.5 billion to build China's first 300 mm wafer fabrication facility in the city of Dalian.

Also at IDF, Eric Kim, senior vice-president and general manager of Intel's Digital Home Group, said the company is focused on developing products and technologies that provide consumers with greater control, choice, clarity and community across computers and CE platforms spanning PCs, laptops, televisions, set-top boxes and other networked media players.

In his opening address, Rattner reiterated the company's goals for processor performance and energy efficiency noting that Intel will be able to drive down power consumption by a factor of 10 for the ultra mobile computing segment by 2010.

The company will also create future processors at Teraflops speeds, and Rattner urged the industry to work together to take advantage of this raw processing power. The next stage of the company's tera-scale research will be around "stacked' memory on top of the 80-core research chip Intel demonstrated earlier this year.