Intel Chief Technology Officer Pat Gelsinger hopes that enterprise IT folks leave next month"s Intel Developer Forum dreaming about how to set up and manage a completely wireless world ... and using Intel products to do it.
The chip giant will use the big semiannual confab, which will be held Sept. 16-18 in San Jose, Calif., and is expected to draw 4,000 attendees, to roll out products and elicit discussion around all of its major product areas—processors, chipsets, networking silicon, software and, of course, mobile technologies.
Gelsinger said in an interview Friday that he is most excited by the discussions around Intel"s wireless technologies.
"Everything the end user sees is being made mobile and wireless," said Gelsinger, who works out of Intel"s Oregon offices. "This is the begging, not the end [of the renaissance of mobile computing]. There are new devices, new usage models."
At the event, Intel executives will discuss a new mobile chipset and a mobile PC platform, give a road map for Intel"s implementations of a range of 802.11 technologies, and demonstrate processors that use the Santa Clara, Calif., company"s power-saving XScale technology.