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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.
*(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.
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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....
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.
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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.
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
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.