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Intel to Take Online Suggestions for New Chips

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the horses-mouth dept.

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."

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  1. The most important part: by nthwaver · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Robert Duffy, Intel's online communities strategist, added that some of the impetus behind creating the community was to boost online traffic to Intel."

  2. New chips by rossdee · · Score: 5, Funny

    How about a 1Thz CPU with on board 1TB cache that only needs 1mw of power

  3. Sort of off-topic... by Scottoest · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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

  4. If I were to have a hand in development. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  5. Add a FPGA by maz2331 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.