HardwareIntel Developer Forum 2008 - Live! Nehalem, Gelsinger Keynote Coverage
Pat Gelsinger and Dadi Perlmutter are on stage and are going to be talking about everything from Nehalem to Larrabee and Atom....
Below you'll find live coverage, updated in real time, from the second and third keynotes at IDF. Refresh for the latest updates. All times are in EDT, the newest posts are at the top. 5:30PM - Time to go! 30 minutes until 3 hours of nothing but Nehalem, check back soon for more updates. 5:25PM - We're winding down here, Dadi just showed off some MIDs based on Menlow. Hopefully they're better than the early ones I played with back at CES. 5:22PM - ~1B IA processors shipping per year in the next decade. That makes much more sense. The plan is ~200M Atoms shipping per year by 2012. That's as many desktop CPUs as Intel is shipping today. Lofty goals Mr. Perlmutter, but we'd need a much better platform than what we have now - this is where Moorestown comes into play. 5:19PM - WiMAX notebooks from Toshiba, Lenovo, ASUS, Dell and Acer. Now it's time to talk about Netbooks, Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) and Atom. 5:17PM - WiMAX demo: WiMAX video conference between John Sw, CTO of Clearwire Corporation, and all of us here in San Francisco. The video is smooth, but quality isn't all that great. 15Mbps WiMAX while driving 35mph. Nice. 5:16PM - WiMAX should be cheap, affordable and global. Ahem, no more per-SMS fees? I'd like to see the rest of the traditional cell phone providers jump ship to WiMAX... 5:14PM - Seven OEMs will be shipping notebooks with Intel WiMAX in Q4 '08. First WiMAX network in Baltimore, MD launching in the coming months. 5:13PM - Time to talk about wireless... [ Read more on www.anandtech.com ]
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