paul otellini | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net KitGuru.net - Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards Fri, 23 Nov 2012 07:31:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-KITGURU-Light-Background-SQUARE2-32x32.png paul otellini | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net 32 32 Intel gets Creative with latest acquisition https://www.kitguru.net/components/jules/intel-gets-creative-with-latest-acquisition/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/jules/intel-gets-creative-with-latest-acquisition/#respond Fri, 23 Nov 2012 07:31:34 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=116335 Over the past few years, Intel has been acquiring a series of technologies and patents that will, it hopes, position it better for 3-5 years down the road. Alongside operating system technology and – more famously – McAfee in the software/security area, Intel has now purchased Creative's clever bits for $50m. Which brings it some …

The post Intel gets Creative with latest acquisition first appeared on KitGuru.]]>
Over the past few years, Intel has been acquiring a series of technologies and patents that will, it hopes, position it better for 3-5 years down the road. Alongside operating system technology and – more famously – McAfee in the software/security area, Intel has now purchased Creative's clever bits for $50m. Which brings it some cool mobile 3D stuff. KitGuru considers the implications of Intel developing graphics differently from Apple.

While AMD and nVidia continue to slug it out in the desktop graphics space, mobile giant Apple uses PowerVR technology from the old VideoLogic team (now Imagination Technologies) from Kings Langley in Hertfordshire. Intel draws on that same experience set – which will make it harder to show that Intel is different from Apple down the road (should it decide that separation is useful in the phone/pad/pod space).

While there's no certainty that this acquisition will be Intel's last, the chip giant must feel it's close to a ‘full house'. Two years ago, Intel bought Infineon's Wireless Business which could give Atom-based phone solutions access to the US markets in 2013. Now it has its own graphics technologies (derived from the old 3D Labs workstation thinking – which started in 1994).

Creative's graphics drive (branded ZiiLabs) also has powerful ties to ARM – AMD's new partner – so it will be interesting to see what (if anything) Intel draws from that pool of expertise.

In 1999, Intel paid 3DLabs $7.5m for use of its existing patents. The new deal appears to include $20m for all its patents and another $30m for the UK-based boffins. Creative itself bought 3DLabs in 2002 for $170m – so it's not looking like the world's best ever investment.

As Capo Otellini exits stage right, his legacy includes buying Intel into a whole heap of new technologies - with the final cherry on the cake being the Ziilabs' innovations. It's a different kind of thinking - acquisition - how will Otellini be remembered?

KitGuru says: As Intel and AMD position themselves for a future where demand for £1,000 desktop systems dries up considerably, both are making steps toward affordable, low power, ‘used everywhere' systems that seem likely to produce the bulk of the world's computing revenue in the future. A future which Intel may now be able to render a little nicer. In low-power-consumption 3D.

Comment below or in the KitGuru forums.

The post Intel gets Creative with latest acquisition first appeared on KitGuru.]]>
https://www.kitguru.net/components/jules/intel-gets-creative-with-latest-acquisition/feed/ 0
Uncertainty of key importance at Intel IDF summit https://www.kitguru.net/components/cpu/jules/uncertainty-of-key-importance-at-intel-idf-summit/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/cpu/jules/uncertainty-of-key-importance-at-intel-idf-summit/#comments Mon, 12 Sep 2011 06:40:08 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=59591 Having presided over one of the most successful periods ever in Intel's history, Paul Otellini will take a sip of water and step onto the stage at IDF 2011 with uncertainty on his mind. His keynote is entitled “The Evolution of Computing: Looking Ahead”, but how much time will he spend on the really serious …

The post Uncertainty of key importance at Intel IDF summit first appeared on KitGuru.]]>
Having presided over one of the most successful periods ever in Intel's history, Paul Otellini will take a sip of water and step onto the stage at IDF 2011 with uncertainty on his mind. His keynote is entitled “The Evolution of Computing: Looking Ahead”, but how much time will he spend on the really serious issue facing chip manufacturers?

Life's simple certainties, like 1 + 1 = 2, can be challenged when you get too far into the detail. People purporting to provide a proof for this kind of ‘so simple any 4 year old can master it', seem to do so in terms so complex that normal people can't be sure the proof is actually there.

Has KitGuru been at the special sauce before breakfast?

Nope. Not at all.

We've actually been considering a conversation we had with an Intel engineering expert recently.

The topics varied greatly, but one thing became very clear. As the world moves toward 7nm technology and beyond – it's becoming an altogether less certain place to live in.

Searching for Intel and Uncertainty on Google, today, and you will find a variety of articles on share prices, shipment figures and chipsets. Nothing obviously about future Intel (and AMD) CPUs struggling to keep the 1 + 1 = 2 principal together at the very lowest levels within future processors.

But that's what KitGuru has been told. We're living in the last days of certainly when it comes to internal, low-level calculations within CPUs. The future will be all about managing increasing levels of uncertainty.

Will TriGate Otellini technology be able to explain the uncertainty surrounding future Intel CPU calculations. Come on chaps, is the answer to the left, to the right or, surprisingly, in the middle with the new chips? Only Otellini knows.

Certainly the human brain spends its whole time in a state of chemical and electrical flux – and human life, overall, is more about managing uncertainty and making good guesses based on experience and available data, than anything else. But it makes us all a little nervous to think that the computers (and, therefore, robots) of the future will be living similarly fluid lives.

A recent Nordic Hardware article touched on this issue, when quoting Bhagawan Sahu of the University of Texas in Austin. While confirming that next-generation Graphene transistors have already been made to switch at more than 150GHz, this research genius also confirmed that Graphene struggles to return to a zero state.

When bored, Zardon often whipped out his scanning electron microscope and grafitied the Graphene

KitGuru says: Whether Intel and its competitors will run with Graphene, germanium or something even more exotic, one thing is for certain: Tons of research will be directed at this whole area of living with uncertainty in a future that's geared to be running more data than ever through ultra-fast, ultra-small processors. Anyone care to guess when the traditional concept of Babbage's Difference Engine will be replaced with an Uncertainty Engine?  Let's see if Paul Otellini nails this in the morning.

Comments below or in the KitGuru forums.

The post Uncertainty of key importance at Intel IDF summit first appeared on KitGuru.]]>
https://www.kitguru.net/components/cpu/jules/uncertainty-of-key-importance-at-intel-idf-summit/feed/ 1
Intel porting Android 3.0 for tablets this year https://www.kitguru.net/lifestyle/mobile/android/slyvia/intel-porting-android-3-0-for-tablets-this-year/ https://www.kitguru.net/lifestyle/mobile/android/slyvia/intel-porting-android-3-0-for-tablets-this-year/#comments Thu, 21 Apr 2011 08:04:41 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=42607 Paul Otellini, Intel CEO, says his company is working hard to port Google's tablet specific Android 3.0, known as ‘Honeycomb' to the x86 architecture. He told investors and reporters “We've received the Android code – the Honeycomb version of Android source code – from Google, and we're actively doing the port on that.” Rumours were …

The post Intel porting Android 3.0 for tablets this year first appeared on KitGuru.]]>
Paul Otellini, Intel CEO, says his company is working hard to port Google's tablet specific Android 3.0, known as ‘Honeycomb' to the x86 architecture.

He told investors and reporters “We've received the Android code – the Honeycomb version of Android source code – from Google, and we're actively doing the port on that.”

Rumours were circulating for many months about this X86 port, but Otellini has now confirmed it to be true. He also has said that they are working with ‘first tier notebook vendors' to create tablets built around Intel processors. He said that they should be able to “ramp those [Honeycomb-based] machines over the course of this year for a number of customers.”

Additionally Intel appear to be on schedule to release their smartphones shortly, with Otellini claiming “I would be very disappointed if we didn't see Intel-based phones for sale 12 months from now.”

The smartphone market has been a key target point for Intel, with Otellini saying almost two years ago “this is where we think the growth opportunity is for us”.

Otellini also said “We…launched Oak Trail last week, which is a platform designed specifically for tablets. We are seeing very good design momentum with Oak Trail across multiple operating systems. Over the course of this year, Intel will have tablet platforms that run Windows, Android, and MeeGo. “We remain committed to success in the smartphone segment, and we're actively working with a large number of handset manufacturers and carriers around the world on Medfield-based designs.”

Intel haven't had it all their own way this year however, with Nokia deciding to go with the Windows Phone. Otellini said “In terms of phones, obviously we lost Nokia, which took a lot of the wind out of the sails for phones this year.” He was quick to add that their focus was quickly redirected elsewhere, rather than dwelling on lost possibilities “We've redirected those resources onto a number of other major accounts, focusing on carriers who want their own devices, and also on handset manufacturers. They're all based on Medfield, which I think is still the first 32 nanometer phone apps processor in the industry.”

Intel's move into the smartphone market means they will be going head to head with British chip maker, ARM. “In terms of x86 versus ARM, it's not just about the core, as much as we would like it to be and as much as I guess the ARM guys would like it to be. It's about the core, the overall capability of the system-on-chip, the things you put around it – the graphics, the comm subsystems, the media-processing subsystems – and the overall power envelope relative to the performance that you can deliver of the SoC.”

“I'd also point out, that all of the major operating systems in phones – in smartphones – are written at a high level, such as they're cross-platform and portable. And so it is easier for people to move from ARM to Intel, or ARM to ARM, than it has been in the past in the Windows world.”

KitGuru says: Intel v ARM, interesting times ahead of us.

The post Intel porting Android 3.0 for tablets this year first appeared on KitGuru.]]>
https://www.kitguru.net/lifestyle/mobile/android/slyvia/intel-porting-android-3-0-for-tablets-this-year/feed/ 1