There were dozens of technical sessions and keynotes at the Intel Developer Forum that were relevant to the smartbook and netbook communities, along with several commercial booths on the trade floor. Any effort to touch on highlights is necessarily going to abbreviate or leave out many important details.
Nevertheless, the Day One excerpts below give some high points of CEO Paul Otellini’s keynote speech covering advanced process technologies, netbook market forecasts, and Otellini’s view of Qualcomm as competitor and collaborator. It also includes Intel executive vice president Sean Maloney and Intel Fellow Bill Mark demonstrating the new Larrabee graphics capability. You’ll get a quick look at sub-netbooks from UMID and Viliv. And if you’re not won over by Uli Dumschat’s guitar abilities, maybe you’ll like the clip from Maroon 5 from the after-hours party.
On Day Two, Intel Executive VP for Architecture Dadi Perlmutter tries to provide some coherence behind all those code names for processors like Arrandale, Moorestown, and Sandy Bridge. He also spills the beans on a new project for fiber optic mobile communications, Light Peak. Meanwhile, Vice President for software Renee James visits with DreamWorks to talk about animation projects, and with Dell Computer to discuss the port of Moblin to Dell netbooks.
Finally, on Day Three, LeVar Burton of Star Trek and Reading Rainbow fame makes a cameo appearance at Eric Kim’s keynote speech. Kim himself, head of Intel’s Digital Home Group, talks about the Sodaville processor. And Mooly Eden, Intel’s vice president of PC Client architectures, provides a lively look at the i7 core and user mobility trends.
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