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09/01/10: Future Lab Radio - Networking in Space podcast
What would it really take to communicate from a planet to the Starship Enterprise? Find out how Intel researchers and NASA are working to develop inter-planetary communication using Delay Tolerant Networking. Vint Cerf and Kevin Fall describe what the obstacles...
08/30/10: Elegant solutions for complex problems....and a poem!
Intel Fellow, Radia Perlman, has been awarded the highest honor from ACM’s Special Interest Group on Data Communications (SIGCOMM) for pioneering contributions to Internet routing and bridging protocols. I had the good fortune to meet with Radia to talk about...
08/24/10: Intel and Nokia: A New Lab for Mobile 3D
Today, Intel along with Nokia and the University of Oulu in Finland announced the establishment of the Intel and Nokia Joint Innovation Center. This lab will aim to revolutionize interactions with mobile devices by combining advanced mobile technology, 3D interfaces...
08/16/10: Intel and DARPA Collaborate on $49M Research Effort in Extreme Computing
DARPA, the legendary research arm of the US Department of Defense, recently announced that it had funded Intel, along with three other organizations, to develop ubiquitous high performance computing (UHPC) prototypes for completion by 2018. Intel's UHPC effort is unique...
07/23/10: The 50Gbps Silicon Photonics Link
Fifty years ago, Ted Maiman built the first laser out of a ruby crystal rod, never expecting that this invention would revolutionize industries from medicine to communications. Likewise, it’s hard to imagine that Robert Noyce and Jack Kilby could have...
06/28/10: Revving up for Research Day - How'd they do that?
Researchers are having fun preparing for the 9th annual Research@Intel media event coming up this Wednesday, June 30th. Ever wonder how you’d get a vehicle on the 2nd story of a museum? Check out the time lapse video below, the...
06/21/10: A peek into Research@Intel Day (coming June 30th)
Intel’s annual press event to showcase the latest in innovation from our labs is coming up June 30th, Research@Intel Day. If you can’t make this event in person, definitely visit this blog - and watch the viewer where a few...
06/21/10: What buying a PC means
“In my social circle, I would take pride in owning a computer. People would look at me with respect.” Sushma is an Indian woman who is part of the “emerging middle class” in Bangalore. As we sat in her family’s...
06/10/10: Live From Research Day - June 30th
Intel labs will soon be showing off some of the most exciting futuristic technology they are working on, at their annual Research @ Intel Day media event. Since not everyone will be able to make it in person, we’ll demonstrate...
06/08/10: Intel completes an Exascale research triple play
Today Intel formally announced the third in a series of joint research centers focused on driving high-performance computing systems to exascale levels. Exascale means performance surpassing a billion billion computations per second — enough to hypothetically scan through every word...
06/07/10: FASTer search from Intel and Oracle
Databases are critical components in everyday computing. The current database market segment is $27 billion (by the technology analysis firm Forrester) and will grow to $32 billion by 2013. Search is one of fundamental operation in database. We do search...
06/03/10: Our Vision: One PC for Casual Surfing and Secure Banking
Have you ever wondered whether the PC that you use for casual surfing is secure for a secure banking? Various approaches to safe banking such as a dedicated PC, auxiliary hardware and others have been discussed in numerous forums and...
05/27/10: Avatar in 3D. Starring: your new outfit!
Computing performance personalizes online fashion shopping experience The Textile and Fashion industries are the second largest industrial sector in the world, second only to the food industry. The fashion and textile industries have been moving gradually from completely a manual...
05/25/10: The Laser celebrates its 50th birthday with Silicon Lasers
Wow, 50 years ago one amazing piece of technology was born - the laser. Happy Birthday! This has to be one of the most amazing technology stories. Invented in a lab, and looking for a use. No early focus groups....
05/24/10: DC - An idea whose time has come and gone?
To anyone who has a passing knowledge of the History of Electrical Engineering (yes there really is such a thing), the 1888 War of Currents figures as one of the most prominent events. It was Thomas Edison and DC vs....
05/24/10: Light Peak makes appearance at European Ball
France just held its Cannes Film Festival. Paris, Milan and London have Fashion Week. But Brussels just had Intel’s inaugural Research@Intel day, and Light Peak was one of the celebrities making its appearance there. Light Peak was seen “wearing” a...
05/19/10: How Smart is Your TV?
“People want to connect their TV to the internet…they want Hulu and Netflix.” - CE Retail Sales Assistant Where did you buy your TV? If you’re like most people you bought it at a large consumer electronics store and if...
05/10/10: TV: The Future of Computing
Predicting the future is a hopeless, thankless task, with ridicule to begin with and, all too often, scorn to end with. —Isaac Asimov In January 1965 Asimov wrote an article, The World of 1990, for Diners’ Club Magazine where he...
05/06/10: Channeling the Data Flood
Check out this news article I just posted on “Channeling the Data Flood,” which covers a talk given this week by Intel Fellow Jim Held, Director of Tera-scale Computing Research. Jim talked about the massive amounts of data humans are...
04/22/10: Water, Farming, Electric Vehicles: Researchers working on sustainability
Every day is Earth Day at Intel Labs as our researchers look at ways to apply Intel technology to today’s and tomorrow’s sustainability issues. By applying technology to help solve these issues, we hope to make positive impacts by enabling...
04/14/10: Plug and Play Energy Efficiency
When: A spring day in 2015 Where: A big box home improvement store in any community Project: Finally getting around to connecting up your personal energy system. Now that you have converted to solid state lighting and hyper efficient appliances...
04/12/10: How was your commute today?
My commute today was relatively trouble-free. No accidents jammed the highways; the rain had stopped for a brief period thus improving visibility; and from what I heard the light rail was running without a hitch. Mind you, it still took...
02/02/10: Prototyping intelligent circuits (Intel Labs @ ISSCC part 2)
In my previous blog I wrote about four papers being presented at ISSCC next week that contribute to our efforts in Tera-scale Computing. Today, I’d like continue scanning through the ISSCC abstracts and highlight four other papers, which I’d categorize...
02/02/10: Moving tera-scale data (Intel Labs @ ISSCC part 1)
For Intel’s hardcore lab jocks, one the most exciting events each year is the International Solid States Circuits Conference. It’s the Olympics of circuit design, where top researchers from industry and academia present their latest advancements in computing and communications...
12/10/09: Changing the (User Experience) Conversation
In recent years, product development in the tech sector has centered on the question of “what do people need.” In response, experts trained in social sciences and design have provided techniques and methodologies to access and understand “real” people in...
12/07/09: Enforcing Moore's Law through Technology Research - Part 3
Welcome to the third installment! I’ve been blogging about research progress towards making compound semiconductors mainstream and talking about both challenges and opportunities. Enforcing Moore’s Law, Part 1 Enforcing Moore’s Law, Part 2 In this blog, I’ll update the progress...
12/02/09: Exploring programming models with the Single-chip Cloud Computer research prototype
Whenever I speak about Intel Labs’ Tera-scale Computing Research program I face skepticism about how far the growth to multiple cores can extend. “How will anyone ever use 100’s of cores on one task?” sums up the typical comments. Coordinating...
12/02/09: Intel Labs to Announce a New Research Milestone in Many-core Computing
Justin Rattner, head of Intel Labs and Chief Technology Officer, will be in San Francisco today announcing and demonstrating a new research milestone in the labs tera-scale research effort. Watch him make the announcement live in this blog at 10:00am...
10/19/09: Driving Enterprise R&D: the SAP and Intel Collaboratory
I was in Northern Ireland today to announce the opening of a new joint laboratory with SAP focused on Cloud Computing and Sustainable IT. The SAP and Intel Collaboratory, as it’s called, will be located at SAP’s research center at...
10/19/09: Transport Layer Security - a novel approach
Transport Layer Security (TLS) is widely used in Secure Internet communication, especially for securing Web / HTTP traffic. TLS is a replacement for the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol, which provides similar protections. TLS provides cryptographic services to application traffic...
10/06/09: My Device Knows Me
In his keynote at IDF, Justin Rattner described Intel’s vision for the future of television, an experience that will be more informative, more ubiquitous, more personalized, and more social. Researchers Mark Yarvis and Rita Wouhaybi describe a research prototype that...
09/23/09: "Powering" the Energy Efficiency Revolution
Intel Labs have been on the forefront of energy efficiency research for well over a decade. Our rich set of technologies, spanning circuit, architecture, and platform, is powering an exciting revolution. Beyond Intel Labs’ past breakthrough in intelligent clock gating,...
09/23/09: Resiliency In Action with Self-tuning Processors
At Intel Developer Forum, numerous research projects were on display. One of the projects demonstrated a low voltage resilient processor that automatically adapts its power-performance point to achieve the best throughput at minimum energy. One of the recurring themes at...
09/22/09: Network Proxy - Sleep Talking PCs!
Network Proxy, or ability of a PC to Sleep Talk, is an “energy smarter” way for a PC to maintain Internet network presence at a very low energy footprint. Imagine these scenarios: (a) At a coffee shop, you are wanting...
09/17/09: And the winners are....
Intel PhD Fellowship Program winners announced! Intel drives and participates in a wide array of education-related programs worldwide whose goals are to improve the quality of education and train students to be future technology leaders themselves. The next generation Intel...
08/28/09: What happens to the TV after 2015
At the Intel Developer Forum this September Justin Rattner will hold a futuristic keynote discussing the world of visual technologies, like TV and computers, after they evolve to the point where they overlap, a concept known as the convergence. He...
08/13/09: The Science of Fashion?
I wanted to share one of the latest developments in our efforts to accelerate the development of the 3D Internet. Researchers at Intel Labs have begun to collaborate with the Fashion Research Institute (FRI) to help bring the benefits of...
06/17/09: Latest Updates on Group Scheduling for VoIP on WiMAX
At the Spring 2009 Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in Beijing, Intel premiered a prototype demonstrating Group Scheduling, a technology to increase the capacity of VoIP in 802.16m, next-generation WiMAX networks. At IDF we demonstrated the reduction in size of the...
06/17/09: Ray Tracing Update: Now with even more 3D!
This is my third time being at the Research@Intel Day. Every year Intel highlights the great research projects showing off futuristic technology that could make it one day into your office or even your living room....
06/15/09: Bright Future for Mobile Broadband
Imagine a future mobile experience where parents can stream their kid’s sports event live to grandparents halfway around the world with your handset. Or people can play immersive mobile games like World of Warcraft anywhere, anytime. Or enjoy true mobility...
06/11/09: Live Broadcast Here - Research @ Intel Day 6/18
The sponsor’s of tomorrow from Intel labs will host media and industry partners at the 8th Annual Research @ Intel Day event at the Computer History Museum to offer a preview of what is still to come for computing. More...
05/12/09: Announcing the Intel Visual Computing Institute
This morning in Saarbrueken, Germany we launched a new research center at Saarland University called the Intel Visual Computing Institute. Intel has committed $12 million to this effort, which will become the newest member of Intel Labs Europe and our...
05/08/09: Technology evangelism music video
If you ever wondered what technology evangelists in the Intel labs do, check this out:...
04/20/09: P-MAPS: An on-demand hardware-rooted system for protecting critical applications
Since our last virtual discussion (June 2008), malware attacks continue to rise, and more so, attacks have continued to become stealthy and targeted. We have completed a key milestone for our software protection research last month; we created a research...
04/20/09: New Intel instructions + algorithms = https://everywhere
At Fall IDF 2008, Intel presented solutions toward realizing a vision that can accelerate secure Internet transactions by orders of magnitude. Our vision was of a world where the internet is entirely secure and attackers have no place to hide....
04/08/09: Benefits of Group Scheduling for VoIP on WiMax
Real-time services are envisioned to be an essential component of next generation mobile broadband networks (4G), and like 2G and 3G, voice is still expected to be the most desirable service over these networks. However, mobile-broadband networks, based on IP...
03/23/09: Investing in hardware for parallel programmability
About a year ago, Intel and Microsoft each invested $10M in jointly funding Universal Parallel Computing Research Centers at UC Berkeley and U of Illinois to make parallel programming mainstream in future client software. I’ve had the pleasure of attending...
03/18/09: Towards virtual dressing rooms
This past month I took part in a technology showcase that we held in New York City to introduce the media to some innovations on the horizon that we think will change the lives of everyday people - not just...
02/17/09: Inventing the Future
A famous American philosopher (lets call him FAP in the time honored Intel acronym tradition) once famously said that “It’s hard to predict anything, especially the future.” Here I attempt to take on FAP through the prism of ISSCC; the...
02/13/09: Finding the "productivity" in virtual worlds
Today I had what I feel was my first authentic foray into a “virtual world.” I’ve convinced myself that these kinds of immersive, connected experiences will become very compelling in the years to come. I read enough cyberpunk and sci-fi...
02/12/09: ISSCC: Circuit innovations to make the world a greener place
I attended ISSCC this week, the first time in many years that I’ve attended. It was a smaller affair than I remembered, driven I’m sure by recent events. Those same events colored much of the discussion in the hallways. Clearly...
02/11/09: Celebrate Inventor's Day...5 predictions from the CTO
Celebrating national Inventor’s Day today, Intel is also recognizing the 50th anniversary of one of the greatest inventions of our time, the integrated circuit from Intel’s own Robert Noyce. Inspired by Noyce and my fellow Intel “inventors” I’m providing my...
02/09/09: Digital technique to calibrate radio components down to 1/10'000'000'000'000 of a second
Radios are used extensively today to access the internet on the go; for example, WiFi is present in virtually all new laptops today. One of the key components of a radio is the high-frequency oscillator that is used to generate...
01/29/09: ScienceSim -- what could you do with a 3D internet?
Today, we are launching a new world for immersive science.. and perhaps part of the path to a 3D internet. First, by way of explanation. I’ve been doing fun and wild things with computers since 1977 when I was a...
01/23/09: Real-time ray tracing applied to Quake Wars
Last year at the Research at Intel day we demoed a ray traced version of “Enemy Territory: Quake Wars” for the first time. Two month later at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco we showed an enhanced and faster...
01/19/09: Talk from the Tech Industry: Letter from Intel to the Incoming Obama CTO
Thank you to the thousands of men and women who participated in Intel’s survey last week at CES. As I blogged about earlier, the survey looked to stimulate broad support for Intel policies, asking you what the top priorities should...
01/06/09: Get Out the Tech Vote at CES
From Jan. 6-13, Intel will be hosting a short survey at CES, asking industry experts, thought leaders, and consumers - in other words YOU - to respond to few survey questions soliciting your thoughts on the top technology initiatives for...
12/18/08: 200 Gbps silicon photonic integrated chip
In my blog of July 2007, I described the world first silicon modulator that encodes optical data at 40 Gbps or 40 billion bits per second. Today, I would like to share with you a silicon photonic integrated chip (PIC)...
12/12/08: It takes a village
The recent silicon photonics avalanche photodetector announcement is an excellent example of how industry and academia, working together, can achieve breakthrough results. Combining the expertise of industry engineers and researchers with the knowledge of universities allows for greater advances....
12/10/08: What if the internet was a million times faster?
What would you do if the Internet were a million times faster? Hard to imagine the possibility isn’t it? Well that’s one potential for a future technology - “Silicon Photonics” - a technology that uses everyday silicon to send and...
12/07/08: Causing an Avalanche: The latest advance in Silicon Photonics
On December 7, Intel published world record results for a silicon-based photodetector in Nature Photonics, and we wanted to explain the results in a little more detail in this blog. Before launching into the “in’s and out’s” of avalanche photodetectors...
12/03/08: Innovation Policy in the Age of Decentralized Innovation
I had the pleasure of recently attending the joint OECD-World Bank Conference on Innovation and Sustainable Growth. Innovation policy appears to be having a bit of a renaissance. As OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría put it, with so much innovation happening...
11/24/08: Intel® RCP goes commercial
Earlier this year, I wrote about the Intel® Rural Connectivity Platform (Intel® RCP) research project. There has been a lot of interest in this technology and I am happy to provide an update from platform manager Joyce Kuo....
11/20/08: Immersive Science
One year ago, at the Intel Developer Forum, I spoke about how as computing technology advances and broadband connectivity becomes ubiquitous, today’s nascent virtual worlds and online games will evolve into a “3-D Internet.” I believe that eventually these immersive...
11/19/08: Personal Robotics in Pittsburgh
What has 3 fingers, 2 cameras, and a segway? The Personal Robot at the Intel Research lab in Pittsburgh! Researchers from Intel and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) have been developing a robot that can function autonomously in a typical home...
11/17/08: Researcher named Rising Star by Sigcomm
Congratulations to Konstantina (Dina) Papagiannaki, senior researcher at the Intel Research Pittsburgh lab, who was named ACM SIGCOMM “Rising Star”. Each year, ACM recognizes a young researcher - an individual no older than 35 - who has made outstanding research...
10/28/08: "Gestris" - Gaming with Gestures
Intel’s Pittsburgh Research Lab opened its doors this week for a tour of the fascinating exploratory research they’re doing on future technologies including a natural gesture interface for games built as a novel application of SLIPstream parallelization techniques. The Pittsburgh...
10/28/08: Cloud Computing in Pittsburgh
Big data sets require big compute power. Machine translation, speech recognition and video processing are some examples of these big data sets. Since they are so large, these big data sets usually require parallel processing and parallel storage systems, often...
10/17/08: Intel Fellow named Scientist of the Year by R&D magazine
Congratulations to Intel Fellow Dr. Mario Paniccia, director of Intel’s Photonics Technology Lab, who on October 16th at an award ceremony in Chicago, was named R&D Magazine’s “2008 Scientist of the Year.” The Scientist of the Year Award has been...
10/06/08: https://everywhere! Encrypting the Internet
Imagine a world where the Internet is entirely secure and attackers have no place to hide. A major step toward realizing this vision of world-wide security is making sure that all the traffic exchanged between servers and clients is encrypted....
10/02/08: Rattner: The promise of wireless power
In the past few years, we have experienced a dramatic revolution in the number of electronic devices—cell phones, digital cameras, laptops, etc.—that we use in our everyday lives. Currently, most of these devices are powered by batteries, which need to...
10/01/08: Trustworthy Wireless Research in Seattle
It should be no surprise to anybody that the use of wireless devices is becoming increasingly pervasive. At the same time, however, the best security practices - firewalls, virtual private networks, WAP and WPA encryption - don’t protect our privacy...
09/15/08: Enforcing Moore's Law through Technology Research - Part 2 with Mike Mayberry
Last summer I wrote about compound semiconductors, both challenges and opportunities. In this blog, I’ll update the progress and give a look ahead to some of the potential paths for use. First as a reminder, unlike silicon, a compound semiconductor...
09/08/08: Digitalization is changing money
From Nairobi (where money can be SMSed between mobile phones, bypassing the banking system) to Tokyo (where millions buy daily commodities with prepaid smart cards), digital technology is changing the everyday forms and experience of money. Intel’s People & Practices...
08/22/08: ISADS: Using images to detect melanoma
Researchers from the Intel lab in Pittsburgh have been working with physicians on a tool to assist them in diagnosing skin cancer. At IDF in San Francisco this week, they demonstrated the project. Once a digital photo of the skin...
08/21/08: Wireless Power & "Sensitive" Robots: videos from IDF
Justin Rattner gave a pretty fascinating keynote at IDF today about what he thought the big advances would be by 2050. He included three demonstrations from some out-there research that is happening in some of intel’s “Lab-lets” in Seattle and...
08/18/08: Connected Visual Computing: The Next Level in Human-computer Interaction by Inga Vailionis
Today at an intel developer forum press briefing, Intel Fellow Jim Held provided us with some insights into CVC, or Connected Visual Computing. He discussed what projects and technologies researchers at Intel are working on for enabling it. To me,...
08/11/08: How to Count Cores
One of the most abused terms today is “core count”. Depending on who you ask, a core might mean a full-fledged IA Core (e.g. a Core 2), or it might mean something substantially less…like a small processing element with an...
07/31/08: Less is More: Increasing the Dynamic Operating Range of Intel Processors and Chipsets
Voltage and power reductions in our products come from a broad engagement between process, design and architecture. For our latest 45nm products, the careful design of the SRAM cell and our invention of high-k metal gate transistors were key contributors...
07/20/08: Rounding up Research Day
Now that the dust has settled from the 6th Annual Research At Intel Day press event, I am still amazed at the breadth and variety of research projects that were on display. Researchers from Israel, China, Russia and the US...
06/30/08: Unwelcome Advice
Generally speaking, you don’t want to deliver any kind of difficult news to customers, partners, etc. Some of us are lucky enough to talk to folks about the performance and capabilities of our processors, shipping and soon-to-ship. Some of us,...
06/16/08: Preventing Identity fraud with Secure Digital Wallets by Prashant Dewan
Intel’s Secure Digital Wallet (SDW) research enables the users to manage their credentials for various banks, e-commerce websites, e-mail servers on Intel laptops, desktops and MIDs so that their susceptibility to identity fraud is minimized. Identity fraud is one of...
06/13/08: Applications can be protected against runtime attacks! by Ravi Sahita
We have seen regular reports from security vendors of malware becoming increasingly stealthier and polymorphic. Most countermeasures have focused in the area of reactive approaches such as anti-virus scanning, which doesn’t help much here. Intrusion prevention systems help, but are...
06/11/08: Interactive 3D Streaming by Alexander Sterkin
Second Life® and World of Warcraft® are among the most prominent MMOGs. They demand lots of computing power – both from the CPU and Graphics. These demands overload any mobile device of today or near future, even including MIDs. By...
05/31/08: Research Takes a Flying Leap into the Future
Ever wonder where ideas for technologies like USB, 802.11n, PCI, or Serial ATA come from? Or maybe you’ve heard of the free application MashMaker that lets you create your own version of Web pages combining the information you want from...
05/19/08: Intel CTO predicts physical computers will eventually disappear into walls, cars and homes in Intel’s next 40 years
I had a chance to chat with Justin Rattner, Intel CTO, as he reflected on Intel’s first 40 years and looked ahead to the next 40 years. He says instead of technology being an evolution over time, big revolutionary changes...
05/05/08: Madeleine Glick on Polymer waveguides for high speed board-level optical interconnects
The continued growth of data rates in servers, routers and high-bandwidth computing systems has led to an increased interest in optical backplanes for these applications. Data rates in the backplane are increasing to several Gbps/channel and higher. The trend to...
04/09/08: Carry Small, Live Large
One of the great computing revolutions of our time has been the dramatic reduction in size of processing components and the power they consume, making mobile computing a reality. The term mobile computer spans many types of devices, from laptop...
04/08/08: Lester Memmott on Context Aware Computing
Last week, the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) was held in Shanghai, China and one of the key messages was that Carry Small, Live Large (CSLL) is a vision held by Intel for future mobile computers. In a nutshell it is...
04/07/08: Taking Multi-core Programming Into The Bazaar: An Argument for Open Source Tools
All the major CPU manufacturers have thrown their lot in with multi-core designs. The (multi-billion dollar) question now is how to program these devices. I can tell you with some confidence that we don’t yet know what the answer will...
04/01/08: Gary Martz on "Cliffside" Wireless PAN technology
On the eve of the Intel Developer Forum, Intel held briefings for the press today talking about the latest mobility research effort, which internally is being called Carry Small, Live Large. As part of that briefing, we showed off a...
03/31/08: Kevin Kahn on Redefining Mobility: Carry Small, Live Large
Imagine a day when a single device small enough to fit in your pocket has the power of a laptop and can deliver a rich computing, telephony, media, gaming, and Internet experience. Imagine a day when this device knows your...
03/31/08: Yimin Zhang on Why do we need many-core?
Now we are already in a Multi-core era, dual-core has become mainstream, and some people even have Quad-core CPUs in their desktop PC. But some people still are are not clear if, in the future more cores will benefit them,...
03/28/08: Wireless Displays: To Compress or Not Compress
This years CES was filled with a variety of wireless display and wireless HDMI solutions using various combinations of radios (proprietary radios in the UWB or 5 GHz unlicensed bands, WiFi-based, UWB/W-USB based, and 60 GHz based) and compression algorithms...
03/27/08: Vic Lortz on Amplifying your Mobile Experience
Intel is in the enabling game. As a building block supplier, our business is based on the premise that when our customers win, we win, too. We are also in an industry that is constantly pursuing the next big thing...
03/27/08: Dynamic Composable Computing (DCC)
In the last 10 years, personal computing has evolved from being primarily a desktop activity to a highly mobile one: the laptop computer, despite its large size and significant weight, has been the most popular mobile platform to date. While...
03/19/08: Introducing two “Universal Parallel Computing Research Centers”
Today, it’s a pleasure for me to report that Intel and Microsoft are joining forces to accelerate the mainstream adoption of highly parallel computing technology. Together, the two companies are pioneering the concept of industry-funded “Universal Parallel Computing Research Centers”...
03/19/08: Andrew Chien on UPCRC is a Major Commitment to Long-range Parallel Computing Research
I can’t help but feel the excitement and optimism that accompanies the launching of a bold new venture which will involve nearly 90 talented researchers focused on parallel computing. We’ve got great partners in Microsoft, Berkeley, and Illinois, an exciting...
03/19/08: Interview with Dave Patterson, Krste Asanovic and Kathy Yelick at Berkeley UPCRC Lab
While I was at our Berkely lablet open house in early March, I had a chance to interview some of the folks involved in the UPCRC lab on the UC Berkeley campus. It was exciting to learn more about this...
03/17/08: "Automated sports highlights" demo video
I wanted to share a video of some of the application research we have going on at our Intel China Research Center in the area of video mining. In collaboration with Tsinghua University, Yimin Zhang and his team at ICRC...
03/13/08: Stefano Pellerano on 60 GHz Radios
Wireless is cool. But nobody wants a slow wireless connection. However, fast wireless means large bandwidth and in today’s crowded spectrum bandwidth is a scarce resource. Recently, 60GHz radio (often referred to as mm-wave radio) has attracted the attention of...
03/12/08: Hasnain Lakdawala on a spectrum sensing, reconfigurable ADC
One of the consequences of widespread use of wireless is that the spectrum is getting crowded. Radio standards must be designed to operate under this rather hostile environment with the presence of a lot of blocking signals in the channels...
03/11/08: Dawn Nafus - Add GPS and Stir?: Some Context Needed for Context Awareness
If you have a mobile phone with GPS in it, you can now sense you location and summon appropriate directions. If you have mobile friend finding software, you are already able to know whether your husband is picking up milk...
03/10/08: Intel (r) Rural Connectivity Platform becomes a reality
I have followed this project over the past few years as it has moved from an exploratory project in the Intel Research lab, to testing in such remote places as Vietnam, India, South Africa, Panama and…Berkeley. The demo that was...
03/10/08: Yorgos Palaskas on a 65nm CMOS Power Amplifier for multi radio
Power amplifiers are used in wireless systems to transmit the desired information from the user device to the base station. Power amplifiers used in cellular systems typically deliver significant amounts of power (~1Watt) in order to be able to communicate...
03/06/08: Mashups for the Masses, now with Widgets, too!
Wouldn’t it be great to customize the web so it fits your needs? Maybe you already read the blog from Rob Ennals last fall about mashmaker. It’s a research project within Intel Research Berkeley which allows you (not a PHd...
03/06/08: Backward Compatibility ≠ Forward Scalability?
One of the constants valued by our developers is the backward compatibility provided by our architectures in the form of a consistent ISA. Historically, a corollary of this has been that legacy software has benefited from process and micro-architectural improvement....
02/27/08: Parallel Programming with Transactions
One of the challenges of parallel programming is synchronizing concurrent access to shared memory. Today, programmers use locks for synchronization, but locks have many pitfalls that make them difficult to use for building large, robust, parallel applications. In the past...
02/26/08: Designing future computers with future workloads
What will people do with their computers in five, ten or twenty years? How will computers need to change to support these future usage models? And finally, how the heck are we going to program these things? These are the...
02/26/08: Real Time Ray-Tracing in your Pocket
We have written a lot about real time Ray-Tracing on this Intel blog, but so far it might have come across like this technology is out of reach of most consumers. That’s because until recently, we have demonstrated Ray-Tracing at...
02/24/08: Haisheng Rong on the First Cascaded Silicon Raman Laser
In a paper entitled “Cascaded Silicon Raman laser” published today in Nature Photonics (by Haisheng Rong, Shengbo Xu, Oded Cohen, Omri Raday, Mindy Lee, Vanessa Sih, and Mario Paniccia), we report the first experimental demonstration of a cascaded Raman laser...
02/11/08: WiFi/WiMAX Heterogeneous Seamless Handover
At the Mobile World Congress which begins today in Barcelona, Intel will be showing a demo of our research to perform a heterogeneous seamless handover between a WiFi and WiMAX network. In this blog I will describe our research work...
02/03/08: Krishnamurthy Soumyanath on ISSCC: Research steps to a Digital Multi Radio
Wireless communication is growing so fast that soon it might be difficult to get a decent wireless connection at your favorite coffee shop. At the Communications Circuits Lab of Intel Corporation, we have been doing research on techniques that will...
02/03/08: Randy Mooney on ISSCC: Scaling performance/watt through circuit innovation
As we look forward to enabling exciting new opportunities in platforms ranging from mobile computing to the data center, along with associated new applications, one common denominator of all these products will be the underlying process technology and the circuits...
01/25/08: What real physics can do for animation (video)
Check this video out. These are special effect animations using physical modeling techniques, devloped Prof. Ron Fedkiw’s group at Stanford (see Jerry’s previous blog). Intel collaborates with Ron’s group to parallelize, analyze, and scale the performance of Prof. Fedkiw’s PhysBAM,...
01/03/08: C for Throughput Computing
One of the challenges of enabling parallel computing broadly is that there is (understandably) some inertia around migrating programming tools, build environments, and, generally, 100’s of thousands or millions of lines of code to new programming models or compilers (especially...
12/27/07: Resiliency – A Key Strategy to Keep Reaping the Benefits of Moore’s Law (guest post)
This post comes from Antonio Gonzalez, director of the Intel Barcelona Research Center in Spain. His lab conducts a variety of research aimed at improving the performance and energy efficiency of future multi-core and tera-scale microprocessors. His post relates to...
12/21/07: PC Compute Giants are Vying for Hollywood
Recent acquisitions in the PC industry suggest that major players are aiming to bring high end Hollywood special effects into the mainstream. What does this mean for the future of computing?...
12/17/07: My programming model rules! Yours drools!
In a schoolyard playground somewhere in Silicon Valley … two programmers meet on the swing-set. P1: My programming language is easy to use and delivers high performance with only minimal programmer effort. P2: Well my language is better and is...
12/06/07: Throughput Computing for Risk: A Quick Note on Financial Engineering
One of the things my group does while developing parallel programming models is to try to comprehend the application programming models and patterns that our tools will be used to implement. We believe this is essential to any work on...
11/28/07: From Extreme to Mainstream
This post originally appeared on our China Research blog on 10 October. At every US IDF, the keynote speech on the first day is by our CEO to talk about the vision for technology and its application. This year’s theme,...
11/28/07: A New Law For Programming Languages?
I recently had a debate with a colleague about whether we should be investigating new programming languages for parallel computing given all the languages that have been developed in the last few decades. In the course of this, I made...
11/19/07: Intel, WiMAX – The Role of Technical Policymaking
On Thursday October 18th, the Radiocommunication Sector of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU-R) approved the inclusion of WiMAX in the IMT-2000 set of standards, commonly known as 3G. This announcement is a major accomplishment for the WiMAX community and would...
11/15/07: Q4 ITJ: The Velvet Revolution of Multi-core Software
Physics is driving a revolution in software development. For software developers, I’m sure it’s odd to think about it this way but the evolving trends in semiconductor manufacturing is going to have a profound impact in how applications, tools, and...
11/05/07: Final Results: The DARPA Urban Challenge (Part 4)
Final comments from Scott Ettinger on the robot race: DARPA announced the winners at an awards ceremony this morning....
11/04/07: Preliminary Race Results: The DARPA Uprban Challenge (Part 3)
A description of the race and early results of the DARPA robot car contest from Scott Ettinger. Today was the day of the DARPA Urban Challenge final event and people turned out in force to watch high-tech cars drive themselves...
11/03/07: DARPA Urban Challenge - Junior Pit Crew Videos
You may have seen the blogs this week from Scott Ettinger, Intel Research Scientist helping Stanford’s team, giving you the play-by-play during the qualifiers. You’ll hear from him again tomorrow - watch out for it, because the event today was...
10/29/07: The Dreaded Merge Test: The DARPA Urban Challenge (Part 2)
More on the DARPA robot car contest, currently underway, from Scott Ettinger. Read his previous blog for more info. Today Junior (Stanford’s robotic vehicle) faced the dreaded merge testing at track A. As I described earlier, this test involves dense...
10/28/07: Robotic Cars: The DARPA Urban Challenge (Part 1)
This blog comes to you from Scott Ettinger of our Applications Research Lab. Scott is on-site at the DARPA Urban Challenge, working with the Stanford team to try and win a unique automobile race where there are no drivers. Photos...
10/24/07: Robotics, Earthquakes, cancer research….Intel?
Intel Research Pittsburgh Lab opened doors today to academia, press and just about anyone in the general Pittsburgh public who wanted to stop by. The open house buzzed with enthusiasm from an estimated nearly 200 attendees about the advancements the...
10/23/07: USB 3.0: Rocket Fast File Transfers
In this post, I share with you an interview with Jeff Ravencraft who is a technology strategist in Intel’s Communication Technology Lab, where he leads Intel’s effort in USB and Wireless USB. Jeff is also the Chairman and President of...
10/19/07: More on the Future of Ray-Tracing - from Alesh Jancarik
After our first ray-tracing article, we received numerous comments from consumers and graphics experts alike. One of these mavens (who happens to be an Intel employee from another group, and also an active SIGGRAPH participant) surprised us with an interesting...
10/18/07: The Problem(s) with GPGPU
Hundreds of GigaFLOPs are available in your PC today….in fact, you might even have a TeraFLOP in there. As someone who cut his teeth on a Cray C90 (15 GFLOPS max), this is an intriguing opportunity to dabble; for the...
10/17/07: You’re Not Paranoid; They Really Are Watching You!
Security and privacy are hot topics to consider when designing pervasive computing systems. Hot is the operative word, because if you compromise security or privacy, you’ll likely upset a lot of people, and a heated discussion will ensue. I doubt...
10/14/07: Wireless Co-existence: Helping radios get along with each other
Let’s take this opportunity to talk about wireless co-existence, an issue that begins to draw broad attention in the mobile communication industry, an issue that will help shape the system and architecture design of mobile device and infrastructure for years...
10/10/07: Real Time Ray-Tracing: The End of Rasterization?
The title seems rather provocative, but PC Perspective seems to think that this is a definite possibility. But is it…? I’d like to explore the current state-of-the-art in real time ray-tracing, based on what has been shown at last months...
10/09/07: Is anyone dumb enough to think yet another parallel language will solve our problems? I MIGHT be!
I have been pleased by the attention my blog on choice overload has received. I must admit, I overstated things a bit just to get people talking … and on that count, I clearly succeeded. In my present blog, I’d...
10/09/07: Smashing Success for Mash Maker Eval Program
I recently had the opportunity to talk with Rob Ennals, the lead researcher on the Mash Maker product, to get an update on how things were going with the evaluation program. Bottom line for Rob and the team was that...
10/02/07: Parallel programming environments: less is more
The single most important paper for programming language designers to read came out in 2000. It wasn’t written by a computer scientist, mathematician, or physical scientist. It was written by a couple professors studying social psychology:...
09/21/07: Rattner's Virtual World's Keynote: Research Reflections on IDF Day 3
Thursday, our CTO Justin Rattner gave a keynote on virtual worlds and the emergence of what he called the 3D Internet. The 3D Internet Rattner described is the mushrooming social world of multiplayer online games, of complex animations for medicine...
09/20/07: Tera-scale Demos at IDF
Following up on Brian’s post yesterday, here’s some pics and info on the Tera-scale demos we have here at IDF....
09/19/07: Research Reflections on IDF - Day 2
Here at IDF - Day 2, the technology showcase is going full steam. With lunch being served in the showcase area it is a certain draw for the attendees - kind of like a massive lunch and learn. In the...
09/18/07: Research Reflections on IDF – Day 1
Your two editors, Sean and I are here in San Francisco for the 2007 IDF. We will do a daily post to showcase highlights of the day and how the research labs are helping lead the way for innovation in...
09/17/07: 40G photodetector: The other end of the link
As you may have read in Ansheng’s earlier post, our photonics labs recently disclosed a 40 gigabit per second laser modulator. Optical modulators, which encode high speed data onto an optical beam, are something we have been working on in...
09/17/07: Fall IDF 2007: One vision for how parallel programming gets easier
A few weeks ago, I blogged on why parallel programming is “hard.” My goal was to set up discussions by others and myself on the Research@Intel blog on how we’re making it easier. While we’re continuing to write about this...
09/16/07: Mashups for the Masses
The following post is from a guest contributor to the research blog. This post comes from researcher Rob Ennals who is the project lead on Intel Mash Maker. Rob is based in our Intel Research lab in Berkeley. Prior to...
09/14/07: Improving Energy Efficiency across the Technology Ecosystem
At my Spring 2007 IDF keynote I said that in order to create a new product line for ultra-mobile devices, we have to create processors and chipsets that collectively reduce power by a factor of ten. Taking 2006 as the...
09/13/07: A new traffic model for current user web browsing behavior
The following post and paper is from a guest contributor to the research blog. This post comes from Network Software Engineer, Jeongeun Julie Lee of Intel’s Communication Technology Lab where she researches WiMAX interoperability, WiMAX cross-layer MAC optimization, Traffic Modeling,...
09/11/07: Tera-scale for laptops?
Recently I was looking over some slides by Intel Fellow Vivek De, which he has put together for his Intel Developer Forum session next week on “Energy Management Innovations for Future Multi-Core Processors.” In the presentation I saw a few...
09/10/07: Making “virtual” more real
Within the Intel labs we were shocked by the public reaction to our 80 core disclosure last spring. The interest level was astounding, but after the initial discussions (around core type, how they were arranged/interconnected, power vs. teraflops, and the...
09/06/07: The Many Flavors of Data Parallelism
Data parallel programming models have been “in vogue” lately because of their prevalence in GPGPU programming. As I alluded to in my previous blog, there are other reasons we should be looking at data parallelism….but not all of these models...
08/29/07: Enabling wireless broadband technology
By John Du, reposted from our Chinese language blog. In my past posts, I’ve talked about Tera-scale computing. Intel has been doing research in both software and hardware on future processor platforms with 10s to 100s of cores. Our objective...
08/20/07: Enforcing Moore’s Law Through Technology Research (guest blog)
As an editor of the Research@Intel blog, I sometimes have the opportunity to share a guest post to complement those coming from our regular bloggers. Today’s post comes from Mike Mayberry of Intel’s Technology & Manufacturing Group. Mike is Director...
08/17/07: The Many Flavors of Parallelism
In my last blog, I described why parallel programming is hard. In the next few blogs, I’ll start to describe how we’re trying to make it easy (there’s tons of good work at Intel on this). When I first started...
08/14/07: Multi-core research update: the intimate coupling of software & hardware
This week we are excited to share further technical progress towards our vision to enable scalable, programmable multi-core architectures based on many cores. We are disclosing 8 technical papers from our Tera-scale program via the Intel Technology Journal with new...
08/08/07: A follow-up on the the 40G Modulator
First of all, I’d like to thank every one for sending their comments to my blog “Announcing 40 Gb/s silicon optical modulator.” I will take this opportunity to try to address some of the issues raised in your comments....
08/03/07: What Makes Parallel Programming Hard?
One of the challenges of multi-core and tera-scale architecture is how to make parallel programming “easier”. But what makes it hard in the first place? I thought it might be worth explaining some of our experiences with this as a...
07/27/07: Groundhog Day: A Personal Perspective on Multi-core Computing
In the 1993 comedy “Groundhog Day”, Bill Murray finds himself reliving the same (eponymous) day again and again until he mends his ways and becomes a better person. Nearly twenty years ago, when I entered graduate school, parallel computing was...
07/24/07: Announcing the world's first 40G silicon laser modulator!
In this blog, I would like to share with you our recent breakthrough in Silicon Photonics research at Photonics Technology Lab of Intel, a laser modulator that encodes optical data at 40 billion bits per second. Here I am holding...
07/23/07: Are we insane? 7 simple rules for parallel programming
One of my favorite definitions of insanity is: “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” With that definition in mind, think about parallel computing. The goal is to make parallel programming a routine skill expected...
07/19/07: Virtual worlds, 80 cores, and 20,000 golden pigs
Why show 20,000 golden pigs to a select group of 85 press and analysts? Because it was a cool way to show both a future application capability (massive collision detection) and a new parallel programming environment called Ct, i.e. C...
07/17/07: Inside an 80-core chip: the on-chip communication and memory bandwidth solutions
By John Du, reposted from our Chinese language blog. Here I would like to discuss about some hot technical topics. About tera-scale, some readers of the Chinese blog made comments about the communication and the memory bandwidth solutions. I would...
07/11/07: Inside Intel's Silicon Photonics Labs
In my first blog, I have already explained to you what “Silicon Photonics” is all about. You may be curious about what Intel scientists were doing in Silicon Photonics research and how hybrid silicon laser recently announced by Intel and...
07/10/07: What would you do with 80 cores?
When talking to folks about tera-scale computing research or the 80-core research chip, the question inevitably arises as to what general users would really be able to do with “supercomputer-level” performance in a desktop, let alone a mobile device. And...
07/05/07: China becomes an international stage
By John Du. Each year we hold the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in China and in fact, we host the largest attendance of any of the IDFs held throughout the world. In the past, we gave our presentations in Chinese...
06/28/07: Parallel Computing: making sequential software rare
In my job at Intel, I get to travel far and wide to meet with research groups working on parallel computing. And as travel, I am constantly struck by the differences between the state of HW and SW in parallel...
06/27/07: Research at Intel Day highlight video
Following up on Brian’s post yesterday, here’s a video showing highlights from Research@Intel day last week....
06/26/07: Fair Online Gaming aka "Anti-Cheat"
In my previous post, I briefly mentioned the “anti-cheat” demo that was presented at Research@Intel Day. Our researchers refer to it as Fair Online Gaming. This post comes to you from Travis Schluessler, one of our research scientist and an...
06/26/07: Hello, Intel Labs...Yea, we do that
Last Wednesday, June 20th, we held our 5th annual Research @ Intel day . This is a day where we open our doors to the press and analyst communities and share with them the research that is being conducted in...
06/25/07: What's in a research blog header?
First, I want to thank you for taking the time to read this blog. Brian McCarthy and I will be taking on the roles of editors and keeping you apprised of the latest and greatest research at Intel. We work...
06/22/07: Silicon Photonics - The path to low cost integrated optics
You may hear about the buzz word “Silicon Photonics” from the press coverage in the last few years. In fact, Silicon Photonics (or silicon based optoelectronics) is beginning to become a technical focus, because it potentially offers an entirely new...
06/19/07: Trends in short-range wireless personal area networking (WPAN) technology
Bluetooth can be considered the first wireless personal area networking (WPAN) technology accepted in the market enabling new usages like hands-free cell phone connectivity, wireless headsets, electronic wallet transactions, and others. For this discussion, WPAN technology is considered to support...
06/19/07: Multi-core processors: An inflection point in software
Welcome to my first blog! I’m delighted to be part of the Research@Intel blog. As an Intel researcher, my job involves developing new programming systems for future Intel architectures. I work on a range of technologies spanning programming languages, optimizing...
06/19/07: Welcome from the Intel CTO
Welcome to the new Research@Intel blog. I am pleased to open this new blog as a way to keep you informed on what is going on in our research labs. Through this forum, you will hear from some of the...
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