The mobile technology landscape is evolving rapidly. With ever-increasing platform capabilities and new web-based services, how we will use mobile technology in the future is beginning to look less like science fiction and more like reality. In this track, Intel researchers discuss what Intel is doing to help us live large mobile experiences. The sessions provide insight on how the platforms of tomorrow can deliver these new mobile experiences.

This track presents innovative technical advancements along with industry-standard collaborative efforts to enhance usages on Intel® Desktop Platforms.

Extending battery life of mobile PCs is an important vector of mobility. This track presents solutions for extending battery life through platform power reduction as well as innovations in mobile PC power sources.

This track includes sessions from the Gold Sponsors at IDF.

The world is increasingly more connected, and embedded applications are helping to drive this trend. This track discusses how Intel’s new embedded product lineup, including the Intel® Atom™ processors and system-on-a-chip (SoC) processors, bring the advantages of Intel® architecture to low power, small form factor embedded applications in market segments such as digital signage, retail, and in-vehicle infotainment.

Learn how Intel® architecture-based platforms can deliver the performance, reliability, and value required to address fast-growing storage segments, such as small/medium business, small office/home office, and consumer storage. This track shows how Intel® storage platforms, based on energy-efficient multi-core and system-on-a-chip (SoC) technologies, can meet the performance, power, and reliability requirements in order to deliver innovative, affordable storage solutions.

Are you a hardware or software developer involved in the mobile Internet category? If so, this is a must-attend track. Come learn about developing for low power, small form factor Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs). Learn about developing Moblin*-compliant software for MIDs in our hands-on Linux* workshop. Come interact with Intel architects, engineers, and industry experts as part of this track. Specific focus areas include Linux for MIDs, designing for wirelessly connected platforms, and key design considerations for Intel’s next generation mobile Internet platform.

This track presents an in-depth view of the various components of the Intel® QuickAssist Technology strategy, a comprehensive initiative to simplify the use of accelerators in Intel® architecture based systems. Learn about the latest Intel system-on-a-chip (SoC) with integrated accelerators (codenamed Tolapai), third-party vendor FSB-FPGA accelerators, software architecture, and the ecosystem companies that provide solutions for acceleration.

Come learn about Intel’s new microarchitecture and how the latest server technology innovations deliver breakthrough levels of performance and efficiency for enterprise data centers, blade, and high-5. Performance computing (HPC) applications. Technologies covered include Intel® Xeon® processors and Intel® Itanium® processor advancements, upcoming microarchitecture innovations, and implementations in the blade and HPC industries.

Intel® software unlocks the full range of capabilities of multi-core processing that can drive your business forward. Intel® software enables you to span multiple platforms and operating systems. Intel, working closely with the ISV ecosystem, completes the equation by offering software services. This track provides attendees with an understanding of Intel’s current software direction, including platform support, O/S and ecosystem enabling, XML technology efforts, and much more.

This track provides an in-depth look into Intel® Virtualization Technologies that are defining the future of the virtual data center and outlines the industry-leading virtualization innovations for processor, chipset, I/O technologies, and software. This track offers attendees an opportunity to discuss virtual machine migration, software, virtualization performance characteristics, virtualization for directed I/O, developing virtualization-friendly software, and I/O virtualization performance enhancements with 1GB and 10GB Ethernet adapter technologies. The track also provides insight into the technologies for accelerating and improving virtualization projects.

Visual Computing is defined as a real-time, life-like, immersive computing experience. It not only focuses on the visual, photorealistic aspect of the experience, but also the holistic experience, including improved modeling (physics and intelligence), multimedia (video and audio), and interactivity (user experience), to deliver complex workloads and data models such as the 3D visual models seen in financial services, medical imaging, and immersive gaming. This track includes sessions on future architectures, workload optimization tools, enhanced media applications, and display technologies. The track includes lecture sessions, interactive Chalk Talks, and technology demonstrations.

Fabric consolidation is the next phase in data-center efficiency. The opportunity is to connect a virtualized server to the LAN and SAN via a single 10 GB Ethernet fabric. Technologies focused on I/O virtualization, Enhanced Ethernet, and LAN security will make this vision a reality. This track examines the challenges and benefits of fabric consolidation, including technologies such as Enhanced Ethernet, Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), I/O virtualization, and LAN security.

Getting the best performance and return from your computer system investment requires consideration of energy efficiency in design, procurement, asset power management, and deployment. This track offers attendees insights into how system developers and ISVs can use Intel’s power-aware products and energy-intelligent technologies to deliver industry-leading energy-efficient performance and enable business growth in energy-limited environments.

This is a combined track covering NAND solid-state drive (SSD) technology and main system memory. The NAND SSD technical sessions provide insight into new usage models and applications and how specific solutions, specifically solid-state drives, uniquely enhance computing applications and platform applications. The main system memory session covers the Intel main memory roadmap and the benefits of using DDR3 for client and enterprise platforms.

Laptops serve the needs of home users, gamers, and businesses. This track presents Intel’s vision for each of these markets, technical advancements, and future platform roadmaps.

The next big growth opportunity in computing is building solutions for affordable Internet-centric portable devices such as Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs), netbooks, nettops, in-car infotainment devices, and other embedded devices. The pillars for delivering full Internet and rich media experiences on these devices are efficient hardware, innovative software, and high-speed Internet connectivity. Intel’s silicon innovation is the Intel® Atom™ processor technology that delivers energy-efficient performance in small form factor packages. To enable the software industry to innovate in this space, Intel initiated Moblin.org, an open source community for sharing technologies, ideas, and code. At the heart of moblin.org projects is the Moblin Linux* software platform; an optimized, feature-rich integrated software stack comprising an operating system plus plug-ins that enables a full Internet and rich media experience. This track helps you focus your software development strategy to align with Moblin technologies and opportunities.

Come hear Intel’s plans to support a new category of affordable, Internet-centric, mobile- and desktop-computing devices featuring the Intel® Atom™ processor.

Intel is continuing its unwavering commitment to advancing processor capability, instruction sets, and technologies in order to continue delivering on the promise of Moore’s Law. Innovative enhancements to the industry-leading next generation Intel® microarchitecture (Nehalem) and to upcoming instruction set architecture extensions enable the delivery of greater performance and capabilities while also increasing energy efficiency. In this track, attendees learn about the features and capabilities in Nehalem; advancements in instruction set extensions, including new features, a look under the hood, software development tools, and more.

Learn about the first Intel® architecture-based system-on-a-chip (SoC) designed for a range of consumer electronics market segments, from Blu-ray Disc* players to cable set-top boxes. See what Intel is doing to bring Internet services to the TV to give consumers more choices and control of their TV experience.

This track presents the next generation wireless technologies and solutions for use in mobile computing platforms.

This track explores innovation in Intel IT and other areas. Open innovation is all about collaboration, both inside and outside the company, in order to deliver the right thing at the right time, and to fuel the future. Join us for the technical sessions in this track to learn about the enterprise of the future, off-roadmap developments, innovation management, and innovation as a service.

Open source brings value to many areas of software development and helps bring out the best from hardware platforms. This track focuses on the coolest open source technologies, projects and ecosystem partner solutions aligned with Intel’s advanced platform technology pillars such as high performance, low power, and virtualization across the computing spectrum. Gain the knowledge that enables you to focus your software development efforts to align with these advanced technologies and projects.

The USB track covers SuperSpeed USB (USB 3.0) and Wireless USB technologies. Technical sessions include topics on using these technologies in mobile devices, advanced power management features supported to provide an energy-efficient interconnect, and general updates on Wireless USB and USB 3.0.

This track focuses on thermal and mechanical technologies that enable all segments from server and workstation to client and mobile. Technologies covered include thermal and mechanical challenges by form factor (1U, blade, 2U), novel enabling liquid cooling, bare die enabling, energy-efficient technology (power savings), sensor-based spec, and more.

Get the latest technical information on the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) industry standard specification updates and future direction. Learn how industry leaders are building on the Intel® Platform Innovation Framework for EFI open foundation and developing innovative firmware solutions beyond BIOS.

This track offers an immersive technical survey of future PCI Express* (PCIe*) technology usages, requirements, and proposed features for this ubiquitous interconnect architecture, beyond the current PCIe 2.0 specifications. Get a comprehensive tutorial on Intel’s contributions to the next generation of the PCI Express architecture features and extensions to meet the emerging server and client I/O applications.

This track covers Intel’s business client technologies, both desktop and mobile. Come learn how Intel® vPro™ technology addresses the security issues facing businesses, including malicious viruses and spyware, with breakthrough technologies. This track features the capabilities of Intel® Active Management Technology and Intel® Anti-Theft Technology, as well as Intel® Trusted Execution Technology with Intel® Core™2 Duo processors in a business computing context. Intel® vPro™ technology significantly advances desktop and mobile business client capabilities and, quite simply, offers security and manageability like never before.