INTEL OUTLINES HOW ARCHITECTURAL INNOVATION WILL RESHAPE THE INFORMATION AGE
Announcement posted by Intel 21 Feb 2004
New Computing Approaches Required to Interpret, Manipulate Enormous Amounts of Complex Data
As the world moves toward digital technology and vast amounts of new digital data are created, the converged computing and communications industry will need to make significant changes to the underlying architecture of its products and applications to improve the way people use data.
In a speech today at the Intel Developer Forum, Intel Senior Vice President and CTO Pat Gelsinger said computing performance in the future will be defined by innovative architectural capabilities in addition to speed, to realise the full potential of digital technology.
Our society is creating massive amounts of complex data as the world continues to go digital, but it doesnt have the capability to enjoy the full potential of this rich resource, said Gelsinger. There is a critical need for scalable, adaptable and programmable computing architectures that have the capability to recognise, mine and synthesise all of this digital data.
For future computers to be more helpful, they will need to excel at three key abilities: the ability to recognise data patterns and models of interest to a specific user or application; the ability to mine large amounts of real-world data for these patterns; and the ability to analyse, or synthesise, large sets of data. These capabilities require more memory, processing power, bandwidth and storage, and will drive the need to change the basic architectural design of computing and communications devices.
New Architectural Approach for the Era of Tera
Gelsinger said Intel is enabling the move into the era of terascale computing by developing architectures that will enable computing and communication devices in the future to do the tasks that only todays supercomputers are capable of handling.
As Intel quickly approaches billion-transistor processors, we are aggressively developing innovative ways to use the added transistors by applying new architectural approaches that will ultimately result in much more useful computers. He added that this will be done through architectures that can scale and adapt to their computing environments.
Gelsinger described some of the innovations that Intel is currently developing to make architectures scalable, including helper-threading, a technology that increases single-thread performance by intelligently executing parallel tasks on a single processor as needed. Another example of the ability to allow architectures to scale in order handle more and more complex tasks simultaneously is the integration of multiple processing cores into one processor.
Intel also is researching new technologies that will make these new architectures more adaptable to multiple environments, applications and users. For example, Gelsinger described how Intel researchers are developing a reconfigurable radio architecture for future chips that will enable devices to communicate over various networks, whether it be 802.11a, b or g, Bluetooth or other wireless technologies.
Architectural innovations such as these, combined with the continued increase in clock speed and in the number of transistors packed on to a single chip, will ultimately determine computing performance in the future.
About IDF
The Intel Developer Forum is the technology industry's premier event for hardware and software developers. Held worldwide throughout the year, IDF brings together key industry players to discuss cutting-edge technology and products for PCs, servers, communications equipment, and handheld clients. For more information on IDF and Intel technology, visit http://developer.intel.com.
About Intel Corporation
Intel, the worlds largest chip maker, is also a leading manufacturer of computer, networking and communications products. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com/pressroom.
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* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Intel and [insert other trademarks mentioned in the release] are registered tradearks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries.
In a speech today at the Intel Developer Forum, Intel Senior Vice President and CTO Pat Gelsinger said computing performance in the future will be defined by innovative architectural capabilities in addition to speed, to realise the full potential of digital technology.
Our society is creating massive amounts of complex data as the world continues to go digital, but it doesnt have the capability to enjoy the full potential of this rich resource, said Gelsinger. There is a critical need for scalable, adaptable and programmable computing architectures that have the capability to recognise, mine and synthesise all of this digital data.
For future computers to be more helpful, they will need to excel at three key abilities: the ability to recognise data patterns and models of interest to a specific user or application; the ability to mine large amounts of real-world data for these patterns; and the ability to analyse, or synthesise, large sets of data. These capabilities require more memory, processing power, bandwidth and storage, and will drive the need to change the basic architectural design of computing and communications devices.
New Architectural Approach for the Era of Tera
Gelsinger said Intel is enabling the move into the era of terascale computing by developing architectures that will enable computing and communication devices in the future to do the tasks that only todays supercomputers are capable of handling.
As Intel quickly approaches billion-transistor processors, we are aggressively developing innovative ways to use the added transistors by applying new architectural approaches that will ultimately result in much more useful computers. He added that this will be done through architectures that can scale and adapt to their computing environments.
Gelsinger described some of the innovations that Intel is currently developing to make architectures scalable, including helper-threading, a technology that increases single-thread performance by intelligently executing parallel tasks on a single processor as needed. Another example of the ability to allow architectures to scale in order handle more and more complex tasks simultaneously is the integration of multiple processing cores into one processor.
Intel also is researching new technologies that will make these new architectures more adaptable to multiple environments, applications and users. For example, Gelsinger described how Intel researchers are developing a reconfigurable radio architecture for future chips that will enable devices to communicate over various networks, whether it be 802.11a, b or g, Bluetooth or other wireless technologies.
Architectural innovations such as these, combined with the continued increase in clock speed and in the number of transistors packed on to a single chip, will ultimately determine computing performance in the future.
About IDF
The Intel Developer Forum is the technology industry's premier event for hardware and software developers. Held worldwide throughout the year, IDF brings together key industry players to discuss cutting-edge technology and products for PCs, servers, communications equipment, and handheld clients. For more information on IDF and Intel technology, visit http://developer.intel.com.
About Intel Corporation
Intel, the worlds largest chip maker, is also a leading manufacturer of computer, networking and communications products. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com/pressroom.
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* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. Intel and [insert other trademarks mentioned in the release] are registered tradearks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries.