The company also expects to provide news on its efforts to back the embattled OFDM-based version of ultrawideband for broadband wireless. Intel calls the technology Wireless USB and said it geared for two-meter clusters of home entertainment gear.
Separately, Otellini will role out a new Intel vision of the digital office that will include work on the products and standards such as a new management technology for tracking activity on business PCs. Intel will also show new techniques for increasing battery life in mobile systems and storage capabilities for handheld devices such as PDAs.
Intel chief technology officer Pat Gelsinger will discuss concepts for building a "smarter, safer faster Internet," according to an Intel IDF preview. The work spins out of the PlanetLab program at Intel Labs to connect a variety of R&D centers around the globe.
"They have essentially formed a test bed they are using to try to layer higher level elements and services on top of the Internet," said Spindler.
Intel hopes to attract as many as 5,500 people to the San Francisco event, its largest audience ever.
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