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Intel to Take Online Suggestions for New Chips
hhavensteincw writes "Intel has quietly launched a new online community that it plans to use to take feedback and suggestions from OEMs and end users for new features in its vPro chips and management software. Intel envisions that the community will grow to allow users to get answers from other community members faster than Intel's support group can answer questions."
Perhaps rather than hoping the community can outpace their support division, Intel should strive to improve their support division so they can always provide timely assistance to their customers?
I am a geek attorney, but not your geek attorney unless you've already retained me. This is not legal advice.
"Robert Duffy, Intel's online communities strategist, added that some of the impetus behind creating the community was to boost online traffic to Intel."
How about a 1Thz CPU with on board 1TB cache that only needs 1mw of power
Has anyone else noticed how great the AMD-Intel marketshare battle has been for consumers? Intel, in particular, seems to have woken up and begun providing really good CPU's, as well as trying to reach out to the community through things like this.
AMD/Intel should stand as a primary example of why honest competition is great for a market.
- Scott
The chip would have it's own personality.
Then, when I boot up Chippy, I'd hear "How may I serve you master?" I'd then boot Windows, open Word and begin typing. I suppose Chippy may interrupt and say "Do you really need me to handle this? It's rather simple." I'd then open seventy five applications and begin decoding the genome.
Chippy would interject "This is a lot for me to handle master. Can you not have me work so hard? It's getting hot in here!"
I'd then open up the interface and change it's name to "Pinky". Sure, Pinky may protest, but unless he kept quiet, I'd open 30 pages of Flash.
Does this mean I can say pretty please and intel will put altivec into their chips so h.264 encoding isn't such a dog?
Get a web developer
*(Cores are process-shrinked versions of the Intel 8088) I'd like to see Intel try making some massively multicore CPU, even if it's just a 64XScale. A joint venture with a company whose name sounds like it comes out of superhero comics would have to be called Super-Duper-Threading.
Drop the Treacherous Computing chip?
Even though Intel is not going to do this in the foreseable future, at least not in a non-EU release (there's a chance our legislators may wisen up... oh well, whom am I kidding?), yelling loud enough and often enough may at least give Intel a hint that they're doing something wrong.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
If Intel wants to serve the community, I vote for an on-die women interpreter.
If you mod this up, your slashdot background will turn into a beautiful sunset!
Intel has nothing to lose by documenting all the instruction sets, architecture designs etc. They have such a big brand name - it doesn't really matter if their designs became public.
It is quite sad that despite their chips being 100s of times faster than a few years ago, so-called 'partners' and OEMs like Microsoft have given the x86 series a bad name - resulting in little or no incremental performance gains for the user community.
Like HP made winprinters and some vendors made winmodems to the customer's ire... and the perennial problems faced by video and audio device mfrs. including big names like Creative... it is clear that the biggest OEM, namely Microsoft determines what customers get to see of "Intel Inside".
The recent thrust towards Open Source drivers for wireless cards from Intel is a very small and incomplete step. Recently at my firm, we talked to Intel for sourcing a 1000 laptops for students joining our colleges. Intel said they would share roadmaps and plans under NDA!!
This is a far cry from 20 years ago when Intel gave out the complete instruction sets and architecture layouts for their 8080; I sort-of remember the Zilog Z-80 did a better job of implementing them. Unless Intel come clean in favour of the truly Open source model, they risk small time players making it big in niche segments - including the biggest niche of them all - the PC market. If not Negroponte, someone else will come out with a non-Intel platform for under $100 and Intel will go down pulling others like Microsoft behind them.
If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
TPM does have a lot of potential beneficial uses, but they all require the owner to have control over the key.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
I'd like a chip with a higher clock speed. I'd like a chip that doesn't cause the lights to dim around the house when I power it up. I'd like a chip that doesn't require a heatsink the size of Guatemala and a fan with the power of a small tornado. I'd like a chip that doesn't glow like the surface of the sun if you remove the heatsink.
I've read that the reason Intel / AMD are going parallel rather than increasing clock rate is due to the problem of heat dissipation. Multi-core is great for some apps (web-server farms, simulation), but is not going to speed up most (single-threaded) apps. Dual core is nice. About the time the industry is going from 16 to 32 cores, I doubt most users will care - or bother to upgrade. And if the heat problem is not solvable - that may be a serious marketing problem for chip makers and computer manufacturers.
[Insert pithy quote here]
You made it that way... you deal with it!
ROFL!!!
I'd like to see something like an FPGA onboard with a compiler (or device driver model) that can allow us to take some time consuming things such as CODECs and push them off into hardware.
I hope for real innovation, like in the cell-phone market. I want a CPU in blue and yellow with a camera and another in pink with sparkles. OMG could they make it in the shape of a pony!
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Give the on board video chips some of there OWN RAM you can use a system like ati hypermemory and nvidia turbocache.
Open up the xeon cpu to chipset links so you have more choice in chipsets like AMD systems do.
Dump FB-DIMMS from xeon systems or make the same chipset with FB-DIMMS or DDR 2/3 ECC. The new xeno chipset with 2 pci-e 2.0 x16 slots should be FB-DIMM or DDR ECC.
Make the new chipsets with all pci-e 2.0 slots not some 2.0 and the rest 1.1 yes the new xeon chip with pci-e 2.0 will only have 2 slots with pci-e 2.0.
Go to true quad-core not 2 dual's linked by FSB.
Dump the FSB and go to the HT bus.
Will I get a cut of the profits from my ideas?
No, but you will get a free Intel coffee mug with a picture of your billion-dollar CPU on it.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
Also, I understand that there are some religious groups getting into the custom CPU manufacturing business: their products all carefully hand-crafted by chip monks.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
I'd be quiet about this too if I were Intel. This is a stupid idea. Half your end users (including me) couldn't care less about what chip they have in their computer as long at works. The other half of your end users want the chips in pink or with an integrated LED. Either way a forum like this will just piss people off, because even the good suggestions aren't going to mesh with their five-year development schedule.
that gives worms to ex-girlfriends.
Spork.
P.S. Spork.
I would be happy if they released a motherboard with a user programmable TPM chip. In particular, I am looking for a chip that can be used for general purpose cryptographic functions, that can be reprogrammed with a different (user known) endorsement keys, and that can permanently disable remote attestation and other chip dependent remote and/or configuration based DRM functions.
-Valen
No, I didn't think so.
How about DS-UWB?
No, I'm not surprised about that, either.
Then some corporate drones looked at what was happening and though "how can we take advantage?" So they got the "each contribute a small amount" part but overlooked the "everyone takes advantage" part. The corporate version is more like "everyone contributes a small amount and the corporation takes advantage". Many corporations have tried this plan and they've been left wondering "what went wrong?"
So here comes Intel - they're asking the people to contribute ideas and then they'll take advantage of them. We've seen this play out before and the result is always the same. Hey, Intel - if you really want people to do your work for you, you need to include some way to compensate them in your plan. You didn't really expect them to do this for you for free, did you?
I suspect they did - and when this plan fails miserably they'll pick some unfortunate person in their corporation to take the blame for the failure. They'll never for a moment think that their plan was flawed and doomed to failure from the start...
Why not actually enter the GPU market?
I don't mean the current minor onboard garbage they're putting out now. I mean real, high end chips to combat the GeForce 8800 series or the Radeon x2900 series. With their own GPU development department, and their open drivers, they could really blow open the market.
Why not?
when was the Slashdot effect so nerfed that it's now considered "quiet"?
one suggestion I would make is bring down the cost of mainstream CPUs to a more affordable price, like $10 or so. That would be nice. Thanks Intel.
Make something with the equivalent power usage of Via's Eden 15000, but faster. Surely Intel has the research budget to accomplish it too.
I want a small, fanless computing appliance that is going to last 20 years or more with zero maintenance other than software. No dust, no noise, no ticking time bomb spinning parts and electrolytic capacitors. Something that will not require me buying a huge solar panel if I want to go that route. If I have data storage needs, USB, firewire or eSATA external hard drive enclosures will suffice.
If I have seen further it is by stealing the Intellectual Property of giants.