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Hi all, my name is Alan and I would like to introduce John and John (no relation). It is our turn in the barrel this week as we dovetail from
the recent discussion around Core Microarchitecture and focus on
enterprise laptops and desktops. We work in Intel's IT department and
want to spend the week relating our experiences, direction and
challenges in managing a large and diverse client environment.
We plan on covering relevant issues around business clients with topics ranging from purchasing considerations, refresh, feature selection all the way through manageability, security, virtualization and everything in between. We'll talk about the good, the bad and even the ugly when it comes to business clients.
Our plan is to put out some topics that we hope will have interest to the Slashdot community and provide insight into technology elements and business processes that drive decisions. All three of us are based in the United States and will be posting and responding as frequently as we can. Once the week ends we'll be passing the torch to some of our coworkers who will drive discussion on next week's topic, mobility and wireless.
We plan on covering relevant issues around business clients with topics ranging from purchasing considerations, refresh, feature selection all the way through manageability, security, virtualization and everything in between. We'll talk about the good, the bad and even the ugly when it comes to business clients.
Our plan is to put out some topics that we hope will have interest to the Slashdot community and provide insight into technology elements and business processes that drive decisions. All three of us are based in the United States and will be posting and responding as frequently as we can. Once the week ends we'll be passing the torch to some of our coworkers who will drive discussion on next week's topic, mobility and wireless.
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Core Microarchitecture 104 comments
For the next 2 weeks Benson, Brett and Jeff will be on-line to discuss the
Core microarchitecture. As you all know, our latest dual and quad core
microprocessors are based on the Core microarchitecture and are a vast
improvement over the previous generation of Netburst designs. Brett, Jeff
and I have spent the previous 8+ years in Intel's Desktop Microprocessor
division working with customers and Intel's design team to define
processor features, specifications and board designs. We are looking
forward to discussing a wide range of hardware features here; everything
from low power states for Energy Star, maximum and typical power
dissipation levels, cache designs, temperature measurement and thermal
monitoring, dual and quad core performance, front side bus vs. integrated
memory controller, and pipelines to name a few. You may have also read
some of the recent articles about our upcoming processors built on the 45
nanometer process. We can answer questions on those products too. (If you
happen to be in Beijing, China next week you can attend IDF and ask one of
our Principal Engineers all about the 45nm Core 2 processors).
Please keep in mind that we are hardware experts, not software, so questions on virtualization, security and multi-threading optimizations are outside of our realm.
The three of us are located in Oregon, on the West coast of the USA, and will be responding to your questions and comments on a daily basis.If for some reason you have no questions for us, I'd be interested in your response to a couple of my own:
- What is more important, a processor having particular architecture features or a processor that has the best performance?
- How do you use information displayed by some hardware monitoring programs such as processor temperatures or voltages?
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Intel in the News
For most of us, one of the most important bits of Intel news this week was not strictly technical. We could compress all the headlines we saw about this excitement into two words: Price Drop! Here's one of the many stories we spotted on this topic.
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Commitment to PXE? Notebooks?
(Score:4, Interesting)(http://symbolset.blogspot.com/ | Last Journal: Saturday April 22, @02:57PM)
PXE and NDIS2 drivers are critical to my enterprise deployments. What are Intel's commitments to maintain compatibility in this area?
Got graphics? What's new in this area?
Are Intel notebook chipsets with eSATA and/or external PCIe on the roadmap anywhere?
I would not consider or recommend a system with a TPM module that can't be turned off. What's Intel's stand on this?
Thanks
Integrated Graphics - up to the task?
(Score:1)New Chipsets
(Score:1)(http://www.famousstamps.org/)
I find this to be untrue
(Score:2)(http://symbolset.blogspot.com/ | Last Journal: Saturday April 22, @02:57PM)
I don't know where you're getting your notebooks from. I handle thousands of them each year, and their failure rate is no higher than anything else -- amazing, really, when you consider the additional complexity that comes with that component density.
One thing that surprises me whenever I see it at Best Buy is the AMD notebooks playing the Intel Dual Core promotion video, badly. You would think that would be outside their minimum standards for marketing dollars.