You and Asharaf are stuck on one thing. I am posting the same broadcast from Intel CEO and see the difference. He covered every new technology you can think of. and both of you are stuck on mobile phones. look at the last line. I have marked it bold so that you can see it clearly.
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Jan 6, 2014
9:42 PM
CES: Intel’s Krzanich Says Its Chips to Be Free of ‘Conflict Minerals’
By Tiernan Ray
Intel (INTC) CEO Brian Krzanich this evening was the opening keynote speaker for the Consumer Electronics Show at the Palazzo ballroom of the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. Krzanich, who replaced Paul Otellini at Intel last spring, took over the role occupied by past openers such as Microsoft's (MSFT) Steve Ballmer and Qualcomm's (QCOM) Paul Jacobs.
Krzanich's talk followed a talk earlier in the day by Intel exec Mooly Eden about the things Intel is doing in “perceptual computing,” and a little teasing of a partnership with 3-D printing company 3D Systems (DDD).
Lights go down, pounding music comes on. Gary Shapiro, head of the Association, comes on stage to introduce Krzanich. Shapiro gave a brief history of Intel's history, going back to Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, though he did stumble over Krzanich's name a bit.
Krzanich segways immediately into a high-octane video across all three screens to let people know what he means by his claim that a “new world” is being built. Lots of snazzy graphics that look a bit like a Nova special on the birth of the galaxy.
The idea of computing as something you carry or that sits on your desk is about to change, he says. He wants the audience to be “immersed” in “experiences,” for which, he says, he is prepared to “take some risks.”
He wants to talk about how working, living and playing are changing. To start, he delves into wearable computing. It has suffered as a product category because it hasn't solved real problems.
The answer, he says, is simple: “make everything smart.” The answer, smart ear buds! A young woman comes on stage to show of the ear buds. Indira, she is one of the developers of the technology at Intel. Built into the ear buds are sensors that do things such as measure heart rate. The point is that there is no charging of the device — it's charged by the smartphone that it's plugged into.
A second device is a wireless Bluetooth headset that is constantly listening for natural language instructions. Think Google Now. Larry, the Intel expect demonstrating, seems to parse the instructions and offers very intelligent-sounding responses in a high-class female British accent. The device is nicknamed “Jarvis.”
These wearables raise the problem of how to charge all these gizmos. Intel has developed a prototype wireless charging “bowl.” It is rather like a slate gray salad bowl. You toss the device into the bowl and it just starts charging.
What about a watch? asks Krzanich. “We've got it,” he says, and produces a black wristwatch with a color display. It is distinguished by having its own connectivity, so that no tethering is required.
It will take lots of partners, says Krzanich. In particular, the company is working with retailer Barney's and fashion design firm Opening Ceremony to make a family of “wrist-worn” smart devices.
Next, Krzanich shows off a computer composed of the company's Quark processor family that fits inside of an SD memory card. Called “Edison,” Intel is going to make the device available to developers in the middle of this year.
What can you do with Edison? Krzanich shows off a child's play toy with Edison built into it. A “smart turtle.” Like a stealth baby monitor.
It measures breathing rates of the child in their crib, and it sends the data about the child's stats to a coffee mug that the parent is drinking from. The mug lights up in a rhythmic pattern to indicate the status of the baby.
To help spur development of Edison devices, especially wearables, Krzanich announces a contest that will award a total of $1.3 million to multiple winners. The competition, “make it wearable,” will also connect the top ten winners to domain-area experts to help them.
Regarding security, Krzanich says the company will start giving away its McAfee security software for use on all manner of mobile devices.
Krzanich moves on to tablets. Restaurant chain Applebee's replaced table service with Intel-based tablets. Krzanich said it improved performance of the restaurant, and raised the average tips paid to the waiters by 15%.
And, as speculated last week, Krzanich said the company will offer support for “dual-OS” systems that run both Google's Android and Microsoft's Windows.
Finally, some clarity on the 3-D printing angle. Intel will provide 3-D scanning technology that will be built into laptops “by the end pd this year.” You'll be able to use a tablet, for example, to scan an object, and send it to a 3-D printer.
Krzanich brings on stage the first star guest of the meeting, Jeff Katzenberg of Dreamworks. Katzenberg extolls the great stuff Krzanich and Intel are doing, and how important tech is to film-making, though it's all a bit vague.
Turning to play, Krzanich invites the audience to experience immersion within a story. On the video monitors, a giant whale from the kids' tale “Laviathan” is shown floating above the audience members — the audience has been captured using cameras and the audience has been inserted into the video with the whale.
Next, Krzanich brings up celebrity guest two, hit PC game company Valve's Gabe Newell. He tells Krzanich that Valve's game network, “Steam,” now has 65 million users.
Today, Valve announced a series of gaming appliances running on Intel — small devices that serve as consoles for Steam games. Newell says he's very excited to use Intel technology to “bring PC gaming into the living room.”
Next, Krzanich says he wants to take a departure, to talk about something that is very important to him personally, but not something often talked about at CES: death in sub-Saharan Africa as a result of the mining of “conflict minerals.” The monitors display a series of images — finger on a trigger, a young man apparently lying dead on the ground — and words such as “murdered.”
“The minerals are important, but not as important as the lives of the people who work to get them,” says Krzanich. He says that after four years of work by Intel on the problem, every Intel processor this year will be “conflict-free.” Big applause from the room for that. He invites the industry to try to follow suit.
To end the keynote, Krzanich brings up on stage several innovators, some employees, some Intel prize winners, mostly very young — the youngest, just a boy 14-years old — and calls them innovators in the tradition of Noyce and Moore.
A classy finish to a fairly classy keynote. Maybe one of the better keynotes, in fact, in recent CES history.
