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To: Tony Viola who wrote (110470)	9/20/2000 8:52:55 PM
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Intel opens its research kimono By John G. Spooner, ZDNet News Intel's Microprocessor Research Lab is developing more than chips. It's delving into pen input devices, new user interfaces and open-source compilers. What are some of the hottest hardware and software technologies that Intel Corp. (Nasdaq:INTC - news) expects to deliver over the next five years? On Tuesday at Intel's Santa Clara, Calif., headquarters, the chip maker's Microprocessor Research Lab (MRL) demonstrated a host of the company's newest projects, related to processors, user interfaces and software. The event and a new research Web site are part of Intel's campaign to be more visible and vocal about its research efforts. Intel researchers were on hand at this first "MRL Open House" to demonstrate the hardware and software that the chip maker sees as key to computing going forward. The lab is responsible for research in the areas of microprocessor architecture, software compilers, system architecture components and user interface technologies. It is also charged with creating new Internet-related uses for Intel processors. Intel will promote the new technologies and encourage the hardware and software communities to work with them, so as to bring them to market more quickly. Sending more signals "It's important that we send more signals (to the industry) when something is technologically ready," said Wilfred Pinfold, marketing director for the lab. "If we can start to stimulate the market early enough, then we can move the market rapidly." The Microprocessor Research Lab has released to open source its Open Runtime Platform, which includes source code developed for Windows and Linux operating systems. The platform includes the lab's latest technologies in the areas of just-in-time compilation and garbage collection for the execution of a Java bytecode. The company said advances in these arenas could help application developers derive performance gains for e-business applications. These kinds of applications use intermediate computer languages, such as Java, so that multiple platforms can collaborate on a single transaction. More compiler-related information can be found at the Microprocessor Research Lab's software library Web site. The power of the pen Another example of a technology that will come to market in fairly short order, is Intel's pen-input technology. The goal: To be able to input hand-written text into a Windows application, such as a word processor. Intel is working to integrate the pen into what it calls multi-modal user interfaces, which accommodate input from keyboards, voice and visual-recognition devices, to allow a person to control a computer. Intel is working to integrate the pen with a speech interface so that a user will be able to, say, change the color of text on a screen by saying a phrase, such as "red ink." The company demonstrated this multi-modal setup with the pen, a speech recognition headset and tablet computer, based on its Pentium III chip. Intel also demonstrated a new speech-recognition portal, developed by its China Research Center, that will allow people to check stock quotes or hear e-mail and scheduling information read from Microsoft Corp.'s (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) Outlook, over the phone. Powering up processors When it comes to processor technology, Intel said it expects that processor speeds, following Moore's Law, will double over the next two years. The Microprocessor Research Lab, in order to accommodate for the faster processors, is working on technologies to increase system performance. The lab demonstrated a new bi-directional signaling technology that Intel is working on. The new technology will find its way into graphics, input/output and memory subsystems. The signaling technology, running at speeds of up to 3GHz in each direction for demonstration purposes, allows for signaling between devices. Once it is commercialized, the technology will be used in systems where processor speeds meet or exceed 5GHz, Intel officials said. The Microprocessor Research Lab is also conducting research aimed at increasing processor performance and reducing power consumption by controlling transistor leakage, whereby a certain amount of the power routed through the transistor dissipates before it can reach its intended destination. Finally, the lab demonstrated its concept for a next-generation video capture card. The card has four channels and links directly to the system bus in a PC. Multiple channels allow for stereo video capture, among other features.