Intel's Dadi On the Go

USING AN OPENING sentence artfully merging both Wham! and Hamlet into one, David (Dadi) Perlmutter took the Intel Developer Forum stage for his keynote today with the opening query, “Where will mobile computing’s on-the-go, go? That is the question”.

The executive vice president and general manager of Intel’s Mobility Group spent his hour showing off Intel’s massive new range of next-generation processors, including a working laptop platform codenamed Calpella.

Noting that the new Calpella platform was, “all about dramatic mobile performance without compromise”, Perlmutter boastfully added that it would redefine how we compute on-the-go, “by giving users a stunning new computing visual experience, better manageability and security, enhanced turbo mode features and evolutionary power management for notebooks”.

Perlmutter, just a month after the release of Intel’s Centrino 2, took the opportunity to introduce a brand spanking new mobile-focused quad-core laptop workstation, dubbed the Intel Core 2 Extreme, a shiny new machine which purportedly uses just 45 watts of power despite its four cores.

Then, outlining yet another low power offering in the Intel pipeline, Perlmutter went on to talk about several upcoming mobile platform enhancements, including – amongst other things – the Intel high-performance SATA Solid-State Drive product line, complete with a pretty nifty feature called “Intel Anti-Theft Technology”.

The Anti-Theft Technology apparently has a whole host of intelligent hardware-based detection and response mechanisms which lets users disable and block their entire platform and/or access to their data in case of loss or theft. Affectionately dubbed “the kill pill”, but apparently more akin to a Vulcan grip (as information blocked can be easily retrieved if restored to its rightful owner), the knicked laptop can be rapidly disabled, located by embedded GPS and even take webcam imagery of its nefarious abductor. “But can I send it to kill him?” joked Dadi as his laptop was snatched during a demonstrative simulation.

Switching subjects, Perlmutter announced that Dell would now also publicly be throwing itself onto the bandwagon along with Acer, Asus, Lenovo, Panasonic, and Toshiba to commit to Intel Wimax/Wifi Link 5050 Series module for its future laptop product lines.

The big Dadi also noted that emerging global Wimax 4G networks would soon be connecting a multitude of mobile platforms and devices, specifically within the US where Sprint plans to turn on its first citywide network in Baltimore in September. He added that over 400 Wimax trials were underway worldwide, something Perlmutter reckoned did much to “extend the richness of the mobility experience”.

“It’s all about the Internet” Perlmutter emphasised as he approached his conclusion, adding, “we want to make sure it will be cheap, available and global”.

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