How often that your smart engineers do not have enough hardware or development platforms to work with and that limit their productivities? How much time is spent waiting for the brand new hardware to arrive, to get assembled, and get OS and software installed, before software and test activities can begin? What if there is a technology out there that allows you to build your own full system simulation solution for your own products? What if this technology can be easily get reused and extended ...Read More

January 12 th I headed off to Las Vegas to participate in my first CES show.  It was certainly an amazing experience – the show floor was bigger than any conference I had ever seen.  I presented a mini-keynote on the future of retailing at MommyTech .  I highlighted the huge opportunity that is present in the next few years as the virtual world of the internet is melded with physical presence of stores.  Intel’s vision of the Connected Store of the future wi...Read More

Gilbert Classical Academy 55 N. Greenfield Road Gilbert, AZ 85234 480.497.4034 Robotics Club Gets Show-and-Tell Session with Intel Engineer A visit from an Intel engineer and his radio-controlled netbook gave robotics club members at Gilbert Classical Academy a chance for a high-tech show-and-tell session last week.   Stewart Christie, a product marketing engineer from Intel, showed students how the Pelikan Quadcopter from Ascending Technologies was built and operated. “This system...Read More

Last week, I had the pleasure of attending the World Retail Congress in Berlin.  The event is sponsored by Oracle and they did a fantastic job of bringing together leaders in the retail industry as well as companies that bring technology leadership to the Retail industry.   Hands down, my favorite experience was being a judge for the “ Future of Retailing ” Student Case competition.  In all, 21 students from 6 countries competed for the top award.  Their challe...Read More

So, that's it, Day 1 is done (we are now into Day 2), but if you can't be with us here at IDF 2011, then I'd like to share with some highlights of what I got out of Day 1!   First, Paul Otellini (our President & CEO) kicked off the day with his Keynote. He touched on a lot of things (see my corporate blog post for a complete run down) but some big picture items was: Computers have come a long way in the last 30 years since the first IBM PC A Great Computing Experience needs to be: ...Read More

Coast to Coast with Intel Energy and Industrial   There are some exciting events coming up for our Intel Energy and Industrial Automation teams, as well be splitting time on each coast the week of September 12 th .   From our Energy segment, Tim Appleton (Business Development Manager) will be in Washington D.C. participating in the annual GridWeek conference as a panelist on the Consumer Connectivity session http://www.gridweek.com/2011/session_2583 . Were looking forward to the indu...Read More

It’s that time of year when most of us take at least a little time away from the office to get out on summer vacations.  Travel to the beach, mountains, to see family or friends is always a great way to unplug and not think about work.  However, this year I found myself noticing embedded IA everywhere I went. Our first mini vacation was to Disneyland where I was amazed by the use of technology all over the park.  I had not visited the park in 20 years, so it had changed ...Read More

Recently, I had the privilege of giving a keynote for the TIA ( Telecommunications Industry Association) Trade Show 2011 in Dallas Texas. It was such an honor to share the stage with the likes  of Grant Sieffert, President of TIA, Tony Melone, EVP, CTO of Verizon, Charles Vogt, CEO of Genband and Jeff Gardner, CEO of Windstream.   I received feedback that the keynote went well & we had around 400 people in the audience, but as you know – if I blog about the keynote themes...Read More