Intel's Kicking Pat opens front side bus to pardners

PAT GELSINGER TALKED a lot about vPro technology, something that is really tough to get across, and harder to demo.

When you have large scale management and security technologies to talk about, you can't really demo waking up 10,000 PCs on stage, or simulate a low volume geographically disparate attack.

What vPro does is put forward a hardware and software stack to allow security modules to run in a VM transparently to the user, and more importantly undetectably to the bad guys. With this hardware platform, vendors like Symantec and Lenovo are able to build in their technology on the PC under the OS. It could be very interesting.

The big new news was about opening up the FSB to partners like Xilinx and Altera, they are calling it Geneseo. The news of Torenza lite may sound like a big deal, but if you look at the rate that chipset and other partners are fleeing Intel, I don't expect this to amount to much. How many companies make Xeon DP chipsets again?

Then on to the SSE4 instructions we covered the other day. The new instructions are not just streaming SIMD, but have a few other things thrown in. The one that was mentioned was a CRC instruction, something that could have wide ranging implications elsewhere.

Lastly Intel brought out Adobe to demo Flash as a SAS platform. There was a business desktop streamed in an entire desktop to the PC very quickly. It had everything from a bar graph to a video window, and collaborative editing of data. µ