The Otellini Intel keynote in a nutshell
8:02 pm in CES by Sina Hamedian
We didn’t get a chance to liveblog this event, but thanks to some handy recaps of what happened, we present a nutshell of the Otellini Intel keynote at CES 2010 in a nutshell. Click the jump to see what happened at that keynote.
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At that event, Paul went through Intel’s history and the ever-evolving CPU technology. They are also shipping the first 32nm processors – roughly 5000x faster than the first processors they shipped. Seems actually pretty small doesn’t it? After that, Otellini punched in humor in several videos of people “from the future” with Aziz Ansari inside. Get it?
All of this followed by using Shrek movies for a benchmark of the total render hours per movie.
Now the whole keynote transitions over to 3D discussions and, yes, 3D demos. Another guy called David is now upstage showing a 3D home movie using a neat app called “First Light 3D” to modify to contrast and similar stuff. Before he leaves, he also shows a 3D trailer for a upcoming Dreamworks movie called How to Train Your Dragon. All the 3D is reminding me of the NVIDIA keynote at NVISION 08. That just blew my mind.
Paul is now back on stage, and he’s saying that it’s not all about content, which was what the entire 3D part was about. Intel says that there needs to be a way to share that content – and not just via internet, but by home. This is what I have been preaching for since my first HDMI capable TV. He then introduced Light Peak (which was already known), that lets you download Blu-Ray movies in under 30 seconds. Intel also has a Wireless Display technology named WiDi which allows you to link you TV to your laptop for a cool $100.
Now on to TurboBoost – the Core i5 was in one case able to clocked to a blazing fast 7Ghz!
Another person from Intel is now, Craig, is going to show a “futuristic digital crib” – a TV interface dubbed Orange. That logo at the bottom sure is familiar.
Now Craig is showing off WiDi, with a Netflix movie on a laptop playing at the same time as on the big screen. This was what I was trying to accomplish with wireless HDMI, for $900 cheaper than wireless HDMI – $100.
And now a device that monitors every gadget’s energy consumption. If you’re not into earning money from your environment saving techniques using Earth Aid, move along – nothing to see here.
Now on to netbooks! If I were on that stage, I would shout how netbooks would destroy lives, dreams, hopes, and careers, but that won’t happen anytime soon – at least I think. They’re talking about N450 which gives better battery life…and that’s it. Oh, and there’s the AppCenter, an application store for Windows and Linux. I installed it on a MacBook Pro. It was awesome.
Smartphone time! The next processor we can expect in our good ol’ smart phones is Moorestone and will enable apps like multipoint video conferencing. What you see below is a Mobilin LG smartphone coming later this year with HD graphics and wait for it…multitouch.
Open Peak is Moorestone on a handset phone. It will be my next phone, alongside Ooma as home phone provider, of course.
And then a smart retail display that talks to your phone and uses your weight to give suggestions what to buy. I don’t want to go near it.
And the Magic Mirror in Shrek has been brought for “time travel”.
Of course, Intel Labs is the future.
And that’s a wrap!
