Intel Inside? Try Intel Everywhere
At a major conference in San Francisco this week, Intel showed how it is squeezing more functions of a personal computer into fewer chips, answering the call for smaller, more mobile devices.
“The world of computing is expanding beyond the personal computer,” said Intel’s chief executive, Paul Otellini, in the keynote address at the Intel Developer Forum on Tuesday. “We’re building out a spectrum of computing devices…all the way down to handheld. For consumers we want to deliver the same experience across any device.”
At the chip level, this means building most of a device’s functions into just one or two chips. The largest integration leap was a chip for digital TVs, introduced Thursday. The CE 4100 chip packs an Intel Atom processor, a graphics processor, and silicon for handling video, networking, and many of the typical PC connection technologies—such as the Universal Serial Bus, or USB—all into one chip.
