IT Innovation: Intel IT developed a new management and support structure for wireless LANs (WLANs). We consolidated first-level support and centralized the WLAN engineer workgroup as well as device management. We manage the WLAN as an integrated service that enables [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Bob Zuber from IBM previews what the company will be demonstrating at VMworld – an Intel Xeon processor based system featuring MAX 5* memory scaling technology. IBM Systems Intel Chip [See the full post…]

We have Isaac Asimov to thank for thinking about robots as a science when he coined the term “robotics” in the 1940s. Originally, the term came from the word “robota” from Czech (possessing a similar meaning in other Slavic tongues) [See the full post…]

IT Client Technology: Intel IT’s security team continually analyzes our computing model to determine how it needs to evolve in response to an ever-changing threat landscape. Recent cyber-attacks on a number of high-profile targets provided added impetus to re-evaluate the [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: executive vice president David Perlmutter celebrates Chip Chat’s 100th episode with thoughts on everything from new Intel microarchitectures to technology and social interaction. David Perlmutter Bio Intel Chip Chat Home [See the full post…]

Green IT: To support Intel’s first planned certified green building, Intel IT has designed a system that saves energy by recovering data center heat and using it to heat the rest of the building. For more on Green IT visit [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Kathleen Fiehrer gives an update on Climate Savers Computing Initiative projects, including addressing power supply efficiency targets and adoption of PC power management settings. Climate Savers Computing Initiative Website Intel [See the full post…]

When Intel Labs established its Interactions and Experience Research Lab, known as IXR, this past summer, it was a sign that the making of technology has profoundly changed. It is one thing to invent a machine or a process, it [See the full post…]

Let’s take a moment away from our ongoing technological revolution to examine the landscape a bit. In this video from Intel, we see that the evolution of computing and the network has inspired people in a variety of ways, some [See the full post…]

In ancient Greece, potters would never have believed the vases they created – donning a vast array of inscriptions about daily life – would fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars at auction. They also would have not guessed how much [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Kevin Bross from Intel’s Embedded Computing Group discusses Intel Energy Checker, which provides software developers the ability to easily instrument applications to measure useful work. Intel Energy Checker Intel Chip [See the full post…]

IT Best Practices: In this Intel IT Whitepaper – Server sizing and selection is a critical element of Intel IT’s enterprise resource planning (ERP) infrastructure strategy, which makes use of both two-socket and four-socket servers. Under-sizing servers may result in [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Peter Biddle from Intel’s software group discusses the Intel Atom developer program and the Intel AppUp, a store for Atom processor-based applications. Intel Atom Developer Program Intel AppUp

IT Best Practices: Over time, Intel IT has evolved our strategies to optimize our data center infrastructure to respond faster to business needs while enhancing the services and business value of IT. Our new data center strategies shift the emphasis [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein from SIGGRAPH, Allyson chats with Mark Noland from Autodesk and Thomas Teger from Luxion about what their companies demonstrated at the show. Autodesk Home Page KeyShot* Home Page

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Shannon Cepeda, from Intel’s software group, chats about software products for developers, which includes Intel Parallel Studio, a suite of tools for enabling parallelism. Sign up for Intel Software Techdays [See the full post…]

In 2009 the Irish rock band U2 experienced the realities of space communication when they connected in a live 2-way video conference between Bono on the concert stage in front of stadium audiences and astronauts in the International Space Station. [See the full post…]

IT Cloud Computing: An Intel cross-organizational group developed a common cloud computing taxonomy designed to meet Intel’s comprehensive requirements by classifying the entire breadth of existing cloud technologies. Based on this classification, diagramed in Figure 1 in this IT whitepaper, [See the full post…]

This week Chip Chat is at SIGGRAPH – Allyson interviews Dave Helmly from Adobe on the performance advantages of Intel Xeon processors and new capabilities offered by Adobe. Adobe Intel Chip Chat Home Page

IT Competitive Advantage: To help Intel consume fewer energy-related resources and produce less waste, Intel IT is executing an IT sustainability strategy based on our Sustainability Baseline Model, a tool developed in-house that quantitatively measures and predicts the environmental impact [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat: Jim Ryan from the SSI Forum discusses server designs that broaden the group’s charter, such as the micro-server, and also gives an overview of major SSI milestones of the last year. Server System Infrastructure Forum [See the full post…]

IT Business Efficiency: To help ensure application compatibility during Intel’s enterprise-wide migration from Microsoft Windows XP to Microsoft Windows 7, Intel IT implemented a carefully controlled workflow in one common test environment. So far, out of more than 1,000 applications [See the full post…]

In this week’s show we explore computer vision and perception, and the research involved in advancing a computer’s ability to understand the real world. We talk with Intel senior researchers Rahul Sakthankar and Lily Mummert from the Intel research lab [See the full post…]

IT Data Center: Jason Waxman, GM of Intel’s Data Center Group, stops by for an update on IT cloud computing, the development of private vs. public clouds, and where the cloud will be in 2015. The Server Room Intel Chip [See the full post…]

In this Intel Chip Chat audio podcast with Allyson Klein: Intel Fellows Sam Sivakumar and Tahir Ghani chat about the lithography and transistor technology behind Intel’s microprocessors – where it’s at now and what the future might hold. Architecture and [See the full post…]