by Leslie Fiering | September 16, 2010 | Comments Off
This is a guest blog from Angela McIntyre, a research director in Gartner’s Client Computing Markets team. While not a headliner at IDF 2010, the topic of healthcare definitely deserves an honorable mention. One of the sessions right after Otellini’s keynote was, “Interoperability and Mobile Standards to Jumpstart Healthcare Solutions.” Intel has taken a leadership [...]
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Category: Uncategorized Tags: CHA, Continua, Dossia, health care, IDF, in-home healthcare, Intel
by Leslie Fiering | September 16, 2010 | Comments Off
This is a guest blog from Christian Heidarson, a principal analyst with Gartner’s semiconductor industry team. The tagline for the 2010 IDF event was “Visibly Smart”, communicating the major leap in graphics processing capabilities that will come with its new Sandy Bridge processor architecture. In 2007, Intel promised to put more emphasis on graphics, publicly [...]
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Category: Uncategorized Tags: AMD, DirectX, Discrete Graphics, GPU, Graphics, IDF, Intel, NVidia, OpenGL, Sandy Bridge
by Leslie Fiering | September 15, 2010 | Comments Off
This is a guest blog from Annette Jump , research director, and Lillian Tay, principle research analyst, in Gartner’s Technology and Service Providers Research group. During IDF, Intel announced the 4th generation of its clamshell Classmate PC and the 2nd generation of its convertible device. While originally Classmate PCs were targeted at emerging markets, they are [...]
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Category: Uncategorized Tags: AppUp Store, Classmate PC, Intel, Intel Learning Series, Learning Series Education Channel
by Leslie Fiering | September 15, 2010 | Comments Off
This is a guest blog from Martin Reynolds, a vice president and Fellow in Gartner Research. Intel continues to invest in Atom, aiming to grow outside of its traditional netbook and desktop market. There are three prongs to Intel’s attack. First, continued investment in software components that attach to the processor and provide value to [...]
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Category: Uncategorized Tags: AppUp Store, Atom, Google TV, IDF, Intel, SIP, System in a Packate
by Leslie Fiering | September 13, 2010 | Comments Off
This is a guest blog from Steve Kleynhans, a research VP in Gartner’s Client Computing Group. The biggest announcement of this year’s IDF is the first public introduction of Intel’s next generation mainstream microprocessor architecture, codenamed Sandy Bridge. For many, the announcement of a new Intel processor might seem like a non-event, kind of like [...]
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Category: Uncategorized Tags: IDF, Intel, Microprocessor, Sandy Bridge
by Leslie Fiering | September 13, 2010 | Comments Off
Paul Otellini’s kick-off keynote is always an important event at the annual Intel Developer Forum. Otellini, Intel’s president and CEO, lays out Intel’s future directions and key strategy points. Since the Intel planning horizon is five years, the results may not be immediately visible, but the keynote positioning always helps to provide context for Intel’s [...]
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by Leslie Fiering | August 19, 2010 | 1 Comment
Intel’s announced acquisition of McAfee is not a one-off opportunistic deal. It is part of a larger strategy to enhance Intel’s security capabilities as it follows other recent acquisitions of tenCube and Trust Digital. The goal is to collect and develop IP that can go directly to silicon and bring security down to the hardware [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: embedded security, Intel, McAfee, mobile security, security
