One thing he mentioned especially in cell phones/wireless is the flash memory has woefully lagged in keeping pace with increasing processor speeds with all the newer apps...but INTC will be making strides in this area later this year and on...alot will be changing rapidly , and has .
we only talked briefly on the phone , and i was busy ... but he just loves to attend all of these INTC user forums he is like a kid in candy store at all these talks .
Mobile Review Tuesday afternoon's keynote will be hosted by Anand Chandrasekher, vice president and general manager of the mobile platforms group. It has been almost a year since Intel introduced its Centrino mobile package of chips for notebooks. Chandrasekher plans to review Intel's progress and drop hints about the future of the Centrino package in clients other than notebooks, Gelsinger says.
Sean Maloney will start the third day of IDF with his first speech as the head of the new Intel Communications Group. Maloney, executive vice president and general manager of the group, will talk about "the broadband wireless wave," or what the rest of the world knows as the WiMax metro-area networking technology, Gelsinger says. Maloney will also make an announcement about Intel's next generation flash memory technology, he adds.
As usual, Gelsinger will end the conference with a look behind the walls of Intel Labs. This time around the talk will focus on the "tera era," or the emergence of applications and data sets that require terabytes of memory or terabits per second of bandwidth, Gelsinger says.
New architectures and enhancements to existing hardware will be needed to make that era possible, Gelsinger says. These architectures will also create new applications in areas such as visual recognition or graphics virtualization that aren't possible with today's technology. Most of those applications won't be ready until the end of the decade, but some might emerge sooner, he says.
I'd be careful about cy's mram chip. Those specs have been on their web site for a long time. I recall looking at them 6 months ago. Supposedly they were going to ship in 2003 and then announced an indefinite delay. The software industry has vaporware, the hardware industry has vapor chips, and the biotech industry has vapor clinical trials and vapor drugs. Until they ship it is just a spec sheet on a web site.