Intel Developer Forum

Technology Topics

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  • Power-Optimized Platforms.
    Leap ahead.
    At the last IDF, the Intel® Core™ microarchitecture was introduced. This IDF is the place to learn more about this bold, industry-changing technology.
    
    Intel® Core™ microarchitecture is an energy-efficient, low-power, high-performing and scalable blueprint that is the foundation for future Intel-based server, desktop, and mobile multi-core processors.
    
    Use what you learn about the Intel® Core™ microarchitecture at IDF to: Make laptop users more mobile.
    
    Dramatically improve how much desktop users accomplish every day.
    
    Develop servers that take up less space, require less energy, and cost less money to operate.
    
    Create exciting usage models for the new digital home that are the cornerstone of how consumers learn, play games, and are entertained.
    
    Come get information and ideas on how you can use this technology to create new usage models and elegant solutions to advance your career and the success of your company.
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  • The Digital Home
    The Intel® Viiv™ platform was announced at the last IDF. Attend this IDF for an update on Intel Viiv technology and how it will change the way consumers' access, enjoy, and share digital content at home on multiple devices and when they are away from home.
    
    The Intel Viiv platform is designed from the ground up for the digital home. More than 40 companies have already developed content services and software that have been tested and verified to work with Intel Viiv technology-based PCs, including AOL, DIRECTV, NBC Universal, Inc., Turner Broadcasting's GameTap, ESPN, Televisa, and Eros.
    
    Intel Viiv technology-based PCs will help make it easier for families to control, download, store, view, manage, and share digital entertainment and information by bringing the performance and connectivity of PCs to their home.
    
    IDF is your chance to find opportunities, get training, and brainstorm ideas that help you create solutions and sleek new form factors that integrate with this dual-core processor-based platform.
    
    The future of the digital home is about:

    • Accessing premium digital content quickly and easily
    • Flexibility
    • Increased personal and information security
    • Improved multitasking

    
    You can make the digital dreams of the world come true. Learn how at IDF.
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  • Mobility
    Technology is empowering end users in new ways every day. They no longer accept technology that is not as mobile as they are. They want 8-hour battery life for their mobile devices. They want to access information, games, and entertainment wherever they go on a single logical device that is easy to update and synchronize with their other devices.
    
    IDF is where you get the learning and collaboration opportunities that help you feed consumer demand for maximum content with maximum mobility.
    
    Intel® Core™ microarchitecture represents an evolution in design combining the best of Intel® NetBurst® and Pentium® M architectures along with many new innovations that enable unique combinations of higher-performing, ultra-quiet, sleek, and lower-power laptop designs. Find out about Intel Next Generation Micro-Architecture at this IDF from the innovators who are developing it.
    
    At IDF, you get the latest information about Wi-Fi*, WiMAX, and the 3rd Generation Partnership Project that helps end users enjoy continuous and widespread connectivity that is interwoven with their lives. Imagine seamless handovers from technology to technology. End users want it. What you learn at IDF can help you make it happen.
    
    IDF is the place to learn more ways you can help communities use wireless technology and innovative applications to expand and improve services for municipal governments, businesses, and citizens. Most of the world is still waiting to get unwired. Come to IDF and get the tools you need to set the world free.
    
    *Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
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  • Digital Enterprise
    The decade of unlimited IT spending is over. But the challenges that all businesses face are not. They need to mitigate risk, reduce costs, and grow. Businesses must do more with smaller budgets, limited space, and less time if they are to survive. Your IDF pass gives you access to training and information that helps you help businesses not only survive, but thrive.
    
    At the last IDF, a number of innovative platforms were shown and demonstrated, including those built on the forthcoming and highly scalable dual-core Intel® Xeon® processors, based on Intel® Core™ microarchitecture.
    
    Intel® Core™ microarchitecture is a highly energy-efficient, multi-core design which reduces electricity burdens and space requirements while increasing responsiveness for clients and servers. At IDF, you learn more about Intel® Core™ microarchitecture, and get ideas that enable you to create solutions consumers and businesses cannot work or live without.
    
    For your customers, these standards-based servers scale with their business needs and allow them to move quickly when they see new opportunities. They are able to consolidate servers, experience greater compute throughput, and see savings in energy and costs.
    
    Start thinking how you can use Intel® Core™ microarchitecture to help yourself, the company you work for, and the customers you work with. Then come to IDF and learn how to turn your ideas into innovations that redefine the future.
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  • Channel Platform Solutions
    As Intel expands to new markets worldwide, understanding and servicing local needs becomes critically important for both Intel and local IT industries. Channel resellers act as “local heroes” by delivering the best technology and solutions to meet local customer needs. They help to create and expand market segments, and work with strategic alliances to deliver successful businesses. There is no doubt that the channel is a key provider of technology and solutions to Enterprise, Small Business, and Consumers.
    
    
    The Channel and Channel Platform products are new technology topics to be discussed in the keynote and track sessions at this IDF. Listen to Bill Siu, Intel Vice President and General Manager, Channel Platforms Group, as he outlines the company’s strategy for nurturing “local heroes” to enable them to capitalize on the shift to new technologies such as manageability and mobility; and address unique platform requirements in Emerging Markets. He will explain the significance of driving industry standards and discuss how this promotes broader end-user adoption and opens up opportunities for the developer ecosystem as well as Local OEMs and the reseller channel community.
    
    Attend the channel track to get insights into how Intel delivers unique platforms to the channel that address local market segment needs and the growing shift to mobile computing. Discover how Intel channel platforms and solutions create new business opportunities, unique usage models, and align with the software ecosystem.
    
    Please join us for Bill’s keynote and the IDF channel track. It’s sure to be an exciting feature of the Spring ’06 Taipei IDF event!