Kevin Beck travels the world telling Lenovo customers, business partners and salespeople about our latest products and technologies. His most recent stop was San Francisco, where he attended the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) conference. I've certainly seen my fair share of trade shows, expositions and technology fairs.   However, there's no show that focuses as deeply on the future of the technology under the covers of modern computing as the Intel Developer Forum. As a worldwide partner of Intel, Lenovo participates in the IDF conference every year—both as sponsor and exhibitor—showcasing our latest products and technologies.  This year, we took along a full load of the latest ThinkPad, ThinkCentre, ThinkStation, ThinkServer, IdeaPad, and IdeaCentre machines as well as various options and monitors. The Intel Buzz First and foremost, IDF is really about the future direction of processor technology.   Intel demonstrated its Sandy Bridge platform, targeted for announce early next year.   It has specific enhancements around video, hardware acceleration of motion tracking and facial recognition, as well as enhanced acceleration of video format translation (transcoding).   Intel also announced its new Ivy Bridge platform, which will move processors to a 22 nanometer fabrication process from the current 32 nanometer process.   For end users, this should mean significant performance gains and power...

Continue reading “Dreamland for Geeks: Staring Into the Future at IDF”