Intel shows off a big block of ice

Well, they'll just make a bigger big block of ice :-p

Is anything IN the ice? Like, it thaws and there sets a rack of wet SSD's or something?

"We wonder how they will top it next IDF?"

A bigger block of ice of course!

you guy's are such big block of ice fanboys. you don't even give us the specs of the ice bed used in this test.

Woo that's COOL.

sorry ed but can you explain what it is or what its supposed to show?
nobdoy would just put a block of ice on a show...

The product everyone has been waiting for. So how fast does it run and will it be compatible with LGA 775?

Softimage has the one and only real ICE, the Vanila ICE at their SIGGRAPH party

Heres few press releases from IDF:

support DirectX and OpenGL, and run today's games and programs. Larrabee is expected to kick start an industry-wide effort to create and optimize software for the dozens, hundreds and thousands of cores expected to power future computers. SO THATS WHAT LARRABEE DOES.

new Intel Xeon processor X7460 with 6 cores and 16MB L3 cache for expandable servers launching in September has already broken multiple performance world records. An 8-socket IBM System x* 3950 M2 server became the first platform to break the 1 million tpmC barrier on the TPC*-C benchmark. New 4-Socket performance records include TPC*-C on HP Proliant* DL580 G5, TPC*-E on Dell PowerEdge* R900, SPECjbb*2005 on Sun Fire* X4450 and SPECint*_rate2006 on Fujitsu-Siemens PRIMERGY* RX600 S4.
SO THATS WHAT BLOCK OF ICE DOES with Heart Monitor??

new turbo mode that shifts the processor into a higher gear for mind-blowing performance without a heat penalty.(thats first on List of ICE Stories).

The company's first desktop PC chips branded Intel® Core™ i7 processors and initial energy-efficient, high-performance server products (codenamed "Nehalem-EP") will be first to production. Intel is also planning to manufacture a second server derivative designed for the expandable sever market ("Nehalem-EX"), and desktop ("Havendale" and "Lynnfield") and mobile ("Auburndale" and "Clarksfield") client versions in the second half of 2009
SO THATS NAHALEM? Deep InSide ICE. Most of News is Trumpeting of Old Rumours.
15 billion devices connected to the Internet as a result of the rapid rise of the embedded internet. Refrigerated ICE.

WiMAX 4G networks 5050 series from Intel.

INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, San Francisco, Aug. 19, 2008 So That Was Yesterday & Hows That ICE now? Intel goes extra $100,000.00 step for 4 lucky winners whom figure out how to sell ICE to Government Before It Melts.
Wish You Where At IDF?: 800-628-8686
drashek

Core i7 is cold as ice,
and willing to sacrifice our dough, you know.

Seems like they wanted to resurrect the idea of a big block engine in computers with built in cooling with very little friction.

No it will be a glaciar the next time, they are doing there bit to prevent global warming

It'll melt over the course of IDF to reveal an earth-shattering new Intel technology buried within it. This will end the proceedings on a high-note. Just a theory of course, but it can't be an ice-sculpture (not very elaborate) and booze-hounds can't break pieces of it off to put in their drinks because it's within a plastic container.

Are they going to float it?

How many FPS does the big block of ice get in crysis?

The block of ice is designed for LGA775 compatibility, but several leakage problems remain unresolved. :-)

That is just the aircon for the place. :)

This is actually how they do air conditioning in the bay area.

And here I thought you' d be using an iPhone

How will they top it next year? With Ice-9 (or i9), which will mean the end of all human life on earth, as foretold by Vonnegut in "Cat's Cradle"

The last remaining piece of arctic ice sheet. Extraordinary indeed.

I'd say Hot Bunny coming out of that ICE... No, not that kind of Bunny ;)

I would imagine there is a big AMD logo on top of the block. AMD on ice.

It's a piece of the 'berg that sank the Itanic. Within is the new Itanic Core i∞ chip which Intel certifies as definitely unsinkable.

This is the hardware needed to run vapourware. Has any trout testings to see if it's streaming down pipeline technology?

I agree Solly Jim! Charlie is obviously hating on the ice by his snide silence. He knows it will thaw; and is thus, brutally promoting heat. Charlie is causing global warming and promoting the over-usage of the scarce resource that water is in California.

Sorry, just wanted to know what it was like to bash on the poor chap. And we can't have a storyline where absolutely no one takes swings at him for our opinion versus his news :D

Might be related to this:
"a breakthrough in Phase Change Memory (PCM) from the joint
development program of Intel and ST Microelectronics"
...Using H20 states as an analogy a single level cell PCM device would be akin to observing
H20 in either a liquid (water) state or in a crystalline (ice) state. With the MLC technique
the authors show they can now control the GST and set it in four states. Stretching the
H20
analogy we can now observe the following states: very amorphous (gas or “00”),
amorphous (liquid or “01”), semi-crystalline (liquid w/ some ice cubes or “10”), and
crystalline (solid block of ice or “11”)...
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Although I like that 'what's needed to run vapourware' theory too :)

Intel Certified Environment?
Internally Chip's Exothermic?
I Crave Electricity?
It's Crappy at Exponents? (remember the Pentium 60?)
I Can't Explode? (made by Sony's battery division)
and my favorite:
It Costs Extra.

if you look closely you can see the outline of a AMD rep frozen in the ice. lolz!