Young Rockstars heading to Intel HQ!
We're very excited to host the first ever Intel Youth Rockstars Summit this Friday at the
Intel headquarters in Santa Clara, CA.
Category Archive: Innovation
13 video steps to upgrading your CPU fan... this was fun!!!
I helped my neighbor cubemate Josh (@JoshProStar on twitter) upgrade his CPU fan/heatsink at his desk to the CoGage TRUE Spirit-1366. He has quite the monster Core i7 975 setup with dual HD4850 video cards setup in Crossfire, and 4 (count em FOUR) Intel SSDs: two 64GB X25-E (system drive) and two 160GB X25-M for his video editing storage - it’s crazy fast!
We shot some video of our upgrade… we hope you enjoy watching as much as we did shooting this…
Intro Video: um - what are we upgrading again?
Intel Insiders Kick Off CES!
It's a new year and a new
CES and what better way to start the conference by having a party! To kick off
the festivities, Intel gathered the Intel Insiders together to host a meet-up
to celebrate the launch of the all-new Core 2010 family.
"Intel's CES Preview and Upcoming Intel Core Processors"
Yesterday, we gathered more than fifty journalists and bloggers in New York and San Francisco to meet the upcoming Intel Core processor family, which will be unveiled at CES next month in Las Vegas.
We kicked off the gathering with a review of 2009 highlights from the tech industry. We've seen one of the worst recessions in decades, but Intel invested in the downturn and focused on innovating and integrating. And trends emerged this year - phones, TVs and other devices are becoming more like PCs, high-definition video exploded and an entire new market segment came on the scene with netbooks.
We also covered the trends we expect to see in 2010, including how PC usage will fuel more demand for digital photo and video editing, music composition and casual and advanced gaming.
Intel Extreme Masters Tour - Edmonton - are you ready!?!
Posted by Todd Christ for Tim “DaHanG” Fogarty (Orlando, FL) Game: Quake Live
Hi Everyone!
The first thing worth mentioning about Quake before Edmonton I suppose is the anticipated patch. As it is now only three days before the North American Championship for ESL and Intel Extreme Masters, the gameplay changes to be released are going to be fairly significant. In the focus testing for Quake Live, they have changed the hitbox values (opponents are now tougher to hit), and made the lightning gun slightly more powerful - first 7-6 damage, now 7-7 damage. Most people think that 7 damage at all ranges (7-7) should be the desired gameplay change, so I assume this will be in the official Quake Live changes within days.
Vote: People's Choice Award - Intel Core i7 Custom Challenge
Make your vote count. Check out some of these truly amazing custom PCs and vote for the best one today!
Background - To celebrate the launch of the Intel® Core™ i7 and Core™ i5 processors, Intel challenged the best mod enthusiasts to rock the world and participate to the Intel® Core™ i7 Custom Desktop Challenge.
To demonstrate their creativity and their vision of tomorrow, the participants did a great usage of lighting, cooling, glass in building their desktop mods. And some more unconventional material: wood, recycled material, and even sand!
The contest is promoted in coordination with our Intel Channel Partner members, sponsors (CPU Magazine, Driver Heaven, Extreme Tech, Madshrimps, PC Mag). and other media publications and blogs.
Here are the deets:
- Check out the finalists at http://www.intelcorechallenge.com/
- Tell your friends to come and vote between November 23 to December 7, 2009
- Follow us on Twitter or join the Fan Page to stay up to date with the latest
Check out the site for more details on the contest
Our old computer is getting slow... time for a new PC?
Yes… I believe the time has come to replaced ‘ye ol shared pc’ in the house. Our little DELL has been great! Other than a dead power supply during the first year (replaced under warranty) - it still runs ‘ok’ - I can hear the fans spinning in the other room. I have to remind myself that I bought this machine a little over 6 years ago in 2003 for about $1,200 (including monitor!)
Here’s the configuration:
From Sand to Silicon: the Making of a Chip
This was passed along to me on Twitter today, thought I’d share it with the Scoop audience. Awesome video showcasing how sand is turned into one of the worlds most innovative use of silicon - the Intel Core Processor!
tagged: bloomfield, chip, core_i5, core_i7, cpu, extreme, gaming, gulftown, innovation, intel, nehalem, sandy_bridge, silicon, todd_christ, westmere
My Windows 7 Ultimate upgrade experience rates 7 out of 7!
I’ve been dying to do this upgrade for a while, and I finally did the upgrade to Windows 7 Ultimate! Yes, I said “upgrade”, mostly because I just wasn’t ready to do a full OS rebuild on my Core i7. But I also wanted to try out the upgrade feature that is so highly acclaimed…
Sixty-five minutes later… I was pleasantly surprised!
There are several choices in the Windows 7 OS realm… but as many of you know, I’m into the Extreme side of things…
Core i7; What's your "hybrid" persona?
Lots of news came out of the Intel Developer Forum last week including the announcement of the new Core i7 mobile processor! What's so exciting about this little gem? Well, we all have multiple interests, some that require more of a 'turbo boost' while others don't require much energy at all. The "Cool" factor of the new Core i7 is that it allows people to switch between "hyperdrive" and just following the speed limit.
For gamers, this means you get all the power you need for the most advanced and even artificially intelligent games, while for content creators, this means you can edit multimedia content, like photo, video and music, with the fastest mobile processor on the market. Even if you just need to surf the Web, send email or type a letter, the processor can accommodate that, too.
We all use our computers for different things at different times; what are your different personas?
What's your big idea?
That was one of the questions posed to IDF attendees at this years event. Giant white boards placed throughout the Moscone center in San Francisco along with Intel blue markers allowed everyone to share their thoughts about the future of technology and innovation.Affordable Performance: How the NEW Intel Core i7 helps you to "Get Your Game ON!"
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When people ask me for recommendations on buying (or building) a new PC, my first question is ‘How much do you want to spend’ - because like anything, you usually get what you pay for. Everyone who’s wanted Intel Core i7 performance can now purchase it, without worry - it’s gonna ROCK!
If you’re like most people, you want a new PC that will play the latest games, manipulate your media files, and not cost and arm and a leg. You want the best ‘bang for the buck’ that you can buy in a computer today. With the latest Intel Core i7-800 Series, and Intel Core i5-700 Series Processors in conjunction with the new Intel P55 Chipset - you CAN have the best of both worlds.
Intel Solid State Drives - SOLID!
This video gives a whole new meaning to ‘durable computing’…
and for those of you who don’t like math… 70C is 158F (that’s HOT!)
tagged: alan_frost, black_rock, burning_man, gaming, high_performance_computing, intel, solid, solid_state, solid_state_drive, ssd, todd_christ, x25, x25m, x25, x25m
Intel Joins 1,200 Women Bloggers, Showcases Latest Mobile Technology at BlogHer'09
With three of my colleagues, I recently joined over 1,200 other women bloggers (and a few men!) in Chicago at the third annual BlogHer'09 conference. [BlogHer](www.blogher.com) is a women's blog network of 15,000 blogs covering a wide variety of topics that are important to women. Their annual conference brings women from their network together to build relationships and learn about the latest social media tools and how to apply them.Old PC Holding You Back?
Laptops are helping more people do more of what they love in more places around the world.
That’s what we learned while collecting stories and footage from the UC Berkeley campus, Malaysia and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. We mixed those stories with data collected by Intel computer performance engineers.
In this video:
- HD playing on a new vs. a three-year older laptop
- Editing high quality video at home or even the beach
- Recording and mixing music at home, a club or with other DJ live over the Internet
- A college field hockey coach helping students become well rounded adults with the help of her laptop and digital video camera
tagged: centrino, digitaldj, hd, highdefinition, intel, intelcore, laptop, performance, upgrade, videoediting
Did You See It? Intel Featured on the Tonight Show!
Did you see it?! I stayed up way past my bedtime last night to watch The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien. Why? Because as part of a new sponsorship deal, Intel and the "Sponsors of Tomorrow" campaign will be woven into on-air and online components of Conan's new show!
Sneak Peek Into Our Tech Future
Some of Intel’s top researchers are gathered inside the Computer History Museum Thursday to show of their latest projects aimed at helping future gadgets, computers and just about anything that connects to the Internet (cars, schools, homes) harness the ever improving performance of Intel processors.
On Wednesday, I joined the Research@Intel day set up crew and captured some photos and video interviews (will go on this Intel Labs playlist)with researchers who are working on things I’m very interested in: small mobile Internet devices, Internet browsing, HD video and WiMAX wireless broadband technology.
Earthquake! University of Nevada Builds Better Structures with Technology
When I was a sophomore in high school we had a 6.8 earthquake on a Wednesday at 11am. I distinctively remember being in Spanish class and seeing the lights begin to sway. The high school I went to is over 100 years old, survived a fire and a mud slide and we really weren't sure if our luck would hold and the school would survive another natural incident.Luckily, there were no serious injuries and no serious damage despite the magnitude of the quake. Ever since then I've been really interested in earthquakes and how they affect the world around us.Future Wearable Tech from NYU Students
While high school science whiz kids from around the world are traveling to Reno, NV to compete in this year’s Intel Science and Engineering Fair, a group tech-savvy students at Tisch School of the Arts in New York will hold their IPT Spring Show 2009.
It’s a “festival of interactive sight, sound and technology from the student artists and innovators at ITP.” The event is free and open to the public on May 10-11. No RSVP required.
In this week’s Rocketboom Tech segment, Host Ellie Rountree gets a sneak peek at a few of the wearable technologies being created by students, including a clever paparazzi protector and a mechanism that rigs your digital music player to adjust it’s playlist to the pace of your heartbeat.
Conversation from Intel's Corner Office
I’m a big fan of American Public Media’s daily radio show MarketPlace. I love the turn-of-phrase masters behind the mic — from the David Brancaccio before 2005 to the show’s current host, Kai Ryssdal. The show delivers some of public radio’s edgiest, anecdotal descriptions of the day’s business news.
That’s why I was fired up to learn that Ryssdal was visiting Intel headquarters to interview Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini.
I listen to the show driving up and down the main artery of Silicon Valley, HWY 101. After hearing the Intel segment, I got home and checked out the MarketPlace Website Website, which served up the audio file, transcript of the full interview and other background related to Otellini and Intel. The site even as social networking share features and lets you embed your favorite segments:
tagged: americanpublicmedia, innovation, intel, internet, marketplace, npr, paulotellini, radio, socialmedia
e-Shopping Benefits Coming Soon to a Store Near You
I really enjoy the convenience of online shopping, as well as the "added intelligence" that Internet-based technologies provide (like making recommendations based on my shopping habits). Often, though, I am disappointed. The package arrives on my doorstep, I open it up with anticipation and then a frown appears as I look at the item and it doesn't remotely resemble what I saw online or it doesn't fit well.
An artist's rendering of an automated service island for a
retail store from Intel and Frog Design.
retail store from Intel and Frog Design.
The salesperson in a brick and mortar shopping experience, on the other hand, doesn't know my shopping preferences, my past purchases or what current merchandise would go well with what I already have in my closet. We haven't had the ability to marry the benefits of estores and brick and mortar retailers - until now.
Thin and Sexy
Okay, that's a weak attempt to add sex to a headline to get you all to read this post. It could've been worse, I was thinking of some over-used St. Paddy's Day pun.
Big congrats to Dell on their Adamo laptop, it's beautiful. Dell joins the also very thin, light and sexy laptops that the Lenovo X301 and Apple MacBook Air are offering. The ultra mobile era is definitely upon us.
Does the processor matter here? Intel engineers dusted off an R&D silicon prototype and our product design team shaped it into a chip some 60% smaller than our regular laptop processors to help fit some of these laptops. Obviously the low power plus high performance combo contributes in multiple ways on size, battery life and performance.
But as much, so does the process, or manufacturing techniques used. This includes the tinier 45-nanometer manufacturing (and later this year 32-nanometer shift) we use and reinvented transistor formula.
That formula uses a Hafnium-based, high-k formula, which also has a second generation coming.
Now, if only my diet could be re-engineered like this.
Intel Science Talent Search
We're finally here! After summers spent in labs and hospitals the 40 finalists for the Intel Science Talent Search 2009 have arrived in D.C.!
I've spent past the past few days getting to know a little about the students and already have a new facebook friend! As I've mentioned in previous posts these are no ordinary high school seniors. They've entered world changing projects into the Intel Science Talent Search including Alzheimer's detection, identifying Global Warming trends and Robotics.
Intel Provides a Glimpse into Tomorrow's Technology Today
Most people have "that" person they go to for advice on technology - "that" person may even by you!
"That" person provides free tech support for the extended family, stands outside in the pouring rain at all hours to get the first iPhone or new Playstation and has every gadget known to man.
I am not "that" person.
I am like many 30-something year-old women. I like technology for what it does to make my life better, easier, more productive and fun. I don't care how it works - I just want it to be up and running at the simple click of a button
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Innovative Women: Deborah Conrad
To celebrate Women's History Month, we're bringing you stories about the great female minds inside of Intel's walls, including Deborah Conrad, vice president and general manager of Intel's Corporate Marketing Group.Getting Energy Smart Using Today's Technology
I got to attend the final afternoon of the CleanTech event in San Francisco this week. I got to meet professionals investing in eco-smart technologies and services, and talked with people interested in influencing better behaviors, like the blog TreeHugger.
I videotaped the keynote by Intel’s Sean Maloney, who talked about finding useful, energy efficient solutions using today’s technologies — like compute power from the latest Core i7 — and common software services available to people through the Internet.
Innovative Women: Renee James
Renee James is the VP and General Manager of Intel's Software and Services Group. As a 20+ year Intel veteran, hear what James has to say about women and social networking as well as getting women back into the workplace.
Learn more about Renee and how she got where she is today here:
Innovative Women: Patty Murray
To celebrate Women's History Month, we're bringing you stories about the great female minds inside of Intel's walls.
Learn more about Murray's road to becoming an Intel exec. here. Keep a look out for more stories as Woman's History Month continues!
What's Next in the World of Filmmaking?
The Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, CA kicks off this week — February 25 through March 8, 2009.
TRANSFORM is this year’s theme, and you can see some of the movie trailers on The Cinequest YouTube channel.
Who Are The Most Innovative Companies?
Fast Company has just published their ranking of the most innovative companies. Well, #1 is actually not a company (you'll see), but you get the drift.What do you think of the list? Intel is #6. I'm biased. That's too low. I mean, who else is playing 'human tetris,' creating a robotic arm that puts your coffee cup into a dishwasher and is thinking about a way to use the energy from a wireless network to actually re-energize, or charge, your laptop? ;)
Inventor's Day Series: What Innovation Means to a Social Scientist
Intel Researcher Eric Dishman shares his take on the role of innovation for social scientists. He is an ethnographer who has helped Intel create new digital health technologies.
Inventor's Day Series: Mario Paniccia Discusses Silicon Photonics
Mario Paniccia is Intel’s silicon photonics “guru,” and he’s here to talk about the how’s and why’s and what’s of silicon photonics. Forget about electricity, we could be using fiber and lasers as the backbone of our computing, providing faster capabilities over longer distances for data-intensive computing applications like remote medicine, lifelike 3-D virtual worlds or even the ability to download libraries of movies and music in mere seconds.
Inventor's Day Series: Intel Fellow Kelin Kuhn -- A 45nm saga
As I said in my blog yesterday, Feb. 11 is National Inventor's Day. In honor of this celebration, Fellow Kelin Kuhn is sharing her thoughts on what it takes to be an inventor.Kelin is an Intel Fellow and director of Advanced Device Technology. In her role as the 45nm device group leader, she was deeply involved in helping to deliver one of Intel's biggest leaps in processor technology in decades. Intel reinvented the hundreds of millions of tiny transistors at the heart of the Intel® Core™ mircoarchitecture with its revolutionary Hafnium-infused Intel 45 nanometer-sized Hi-k metal gate transistor technology.
This formula improves processor performance and reduces leakage. Through this invention, Intel was able to continue to deliver on Moore's Law, enabling consumers and business users to enjoy smaller, more powerful and energy-efficient laptops and PCs, and servers whose power consumption doesn't break IT budgets.
National Inventor's Day: Take a Peak Behind Intel's "Magic Curtain"
In honor of National Inventor's Day (Feb. 11), I want to congratulate and recognize the accomplishments of inventors - past and present - who aim to find new, creative solutions to problems and unearth novel ways to improve the way we live.Working at Intel, I am lucky to be a part of a history marked by world-changing innovations - from Robert Noyce's invention of the first integrated circuit 50 years ago to the famous formula "Moore's Law" named after Gordon Moore. Intel inventors have shaped the technology industry, helped make today's computing and communications era possible and dramatically influenced the way we all live, work and play.
Our company continues to follow the advice of Intel co-founder Robert Noyce who would counsel his employees to "go off and do something wonderful." With a look behind the Intel "magic curtain," a series of Intel inventors this week will be offering their thoughts on the topic of innovation and providing insight into how advances in chip technology are paving the way for many new applications.
Share your thoughts on innovation and advice for today's and tomorrow's inventors.
What Does 32nm Really Mean?
Today, I got to video record Intel’s first public demonstration of test laptops and desktop PCs running processors built with Intel’s next generation 32 nanometer circuitry manufacturing technology.
I’ll get the presentation video into our Manufacturing video channel soon.
Today’s presentation was dense with technical detail and a product roadmaps filled with code names for future chips that would begin production before the end of the 2009.
Business journalists in the audience asked about what was different, and how would Intel be in a better position because it’s shrinking its process technology even smaller than the 45 nanometer (45nm) transistors used in today’s cutting edge computer chips. The technical journalists and bloggers dug into the gritty details of new design features, why new 32 nanometer (32nm) chips would first be built for consumer desktop PCs rather than server computers for business, and what kinds of performance improvements would we likely see from the new, smaller transistors.
Intel Extreme Masters Taiwan is approaching fast.
Young Rockstars heading to Intel HQ!
Why the AppUp Center is Great for Moms
Technology Wonderland -- Tour of Intel Booth at CES 2010
13 video steps to upgrading your CPU fan... this was fun!!!
Intel Moorestown Smartphones at CES
tagged: innovation, intel, intelinsider, rockstars, youth