Intel preaches ‘Convergence’ to developers

NEW DELHI: Intel opened the fifth developer forum with the theme ‘Convergence in the wireless world’.

Further in his keynote address, Intel CTO Patrick Gelsinger emphasized the fact that convergence would drive the wireless technology in the coming days. He also said that India has an opportunity to lead the global IT industry by using and innovating converged computing and communications technologies.

"Last year at IDF we said Asia's developers would continue to play a role among the world's leading computing and communications developers," said Gelsinger to the 1,400 participants attending the Intel Developer Forum (IDF). "This year we're saying companies in Asia have the opportunity to lead how this industry designs and markets converged products to an increasingly global customer base," he added.

He also showcased the new technologies Intel plans to bring to market to further convergence that includes Hyper-Threading Technology, Centrino Mobile Technology, LaGrande for security, and Vanderpool to improve reliability, flexibility and the overall computing experience.

"The wireless data technologies developers can use to build India's future are already here. India is now in a unique position to move ahead in the IT industry by deploying a state-of-the-art wireless infrastructure with ubiquitous Internet access, without being burdened by an existing expensive, non-scalable and wired infrastructure," added Gelsinger.

He also discussed Intel silicon built on the next generation 65-nm manufacturing process, saying the company is on track for introducing 65-nm products in 2005. This advanced silicon technology will pack more new features and functions onto smaller devices.

Developing global industry specifications through the Digital Home Working Group will be essential to realizing the vision of digital homes and offices that share content across multiple devices, Gelsinger noted. "The goal is to make digital homes and offices everywhere connect seamlessly," he said.

Intel VP and Director of the Solutions Development Group John Davies focused on mobilized software solutions by saying that mobility is growing fast and to cater to the needs of the mobile world we need to produce applications that work anytime, anywhere. He addressed the developer’s challenge of integrating various solutions in an existing IT infrastructure due to changes in usage models.

“Intel is expanding its focus on deployments that include Intel processor-based mobile and desktop PC technologies. We will have to play a major role in wireless and web services in augmenting existing Intel processor based back end infrastructure to reduce the complexity and time involved implementing enterprise class solutions,” he said.

Speaking on enterprise computing, Intel vice president and chief architect of the Architecture and Integration Platform Group Prasad Rampalli discussed the key IT challenges that CIOs are facing today, and key strategies to enable optimization of total cost of ownership (TCO), agility, and security in the enterprise.

He emphasized on the five key trends in computing that include security where spending is growing by 15 percent year-on-year in CIO’s budget. Secondly, re-architecture and operations automation is a key theme in IT shops for TCO breakthrough. Thirdly, data volume continues to grow 2x every 12-18 months- must be harnessed as a corporate asset. Another trend is e-mobility that is fueling productivity and new usage models with converged communication platform. He also said that "What PCI did for chipsets, service oriented architecture will do for business solutions integration".

(CNS)