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• Innovation@Intel: On-chip Highways - 2D Interconnect for Tera-scale ProcessorsOctober 28, 2009

  The ability to integrate hundreds of Intel Architecture cores into future microprocessors will help deliver the power of Moore's Law to new user interfaces and visually compelling experiences. A high performance, resilient, core-to-core interconnect will be as important for these tera-scale microprocessors as a well-designed highway grid is to moving goods and services across a country. Recently Intel demonstrated a next generation 2D interconnect prototype that provides high data bandwidth and low latencies between cores, memory and I/O. The demo also featured our -MCEMU FPGA-based many-core emulation platform developed at Intel Labs, in Braunschweig, Germany, and a 3D visual interface developed with UC Irvine. For more information see a webcast of the demo from the recent Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco.

• Chip Shot: Microsoft and Intel Culminate Windows 7 CollaborationOctober 28, 2009

  Intel and Microsoft have collaborated on Windows 7 since before Microsoft Vista launched to create the best experience for consumers and businesses. Hundreds of engineers produced advances in such areas as performance, responsiveness, security, energy efficiency and virtualization. In this video, Microsoft Fellow Mark Russinovich and Intel Fellow Shiv Kaushik discuss the joint effort.

• Chip Shot: Intel CEO to Discuss Investment Dollars and Innovative Sense at Tech SummitOctober 28, 2009

  At the sixth annual Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini will participate in an on-stage conversation at 8:30 a.m. PDT tomorrow, Oct. 22, with John Battelle, the conference's co-founder. Their chat will be streamed live at this Web site. They will speak about the importance of investment in innovation, Intel's business strategy and today's most talked about technology trends. The 3-day Web 2.0 Summit, which concludes tomorrow, brings together leaders from the Internet industry with visionaries and executives across several industries to share their unique perspectives on the Web's future and how the tools and principles of Web 2.0 are impacting their businesses.

• Chip Shot: Sun Solaris Readies for Nehalem-EXOctober 21, 2009

  In a new white paper, Sun discusses how the Solaris OS will take advantage of the next-generation Intel Xeon processor for servers with four or more sockets (codename Nehalem-EX). In its latest version, Solaris will focus on scalable performance, advanced reliability and energy efficiency between specific features in Solaris and Nehalem-EX.