(iTers News) - The world of computing is changing. So is Intel Corp. one of two icons of contemporary computing technology, who have no only ridden at the cusp of the relentlessly rapid computing technology development cycle of the past 3 decades, but also shaped up today’s PC industry.


At IDF 2014, an annualized developer forum for Intel’s chip solutions, the technology bellwether announced three milestone technologies, the sort of harbingers of how it will reinvent itself to sail through sea changes sweeping through the computing world.


For the first time in its corporate history, Intel has telegraphed its intention to support multi OSes releasing what’s called as the Intel Reference Design for Android program.


Especially designed to help tablet PC makers to build their Android devices around Intel’s chip architecture, the reference design represents Intel’s first attempt to carve out names in the ever-expanding tablet PC market.


The rollout also heralds that Intel will more likely get OS-agnostic, as the decades-old Wintel paring proves not a best optimal OS and CPU coupling for a new breed of wearable and Internet of Things, or IoT devices.


IoTs and wearable devices are a next generation of growth driver that Intel is betting its future on. Unlike the PC market that Microsoft’s Windows OS platform has singlehandedly dominated, these markets are where an array of embedded OSes are prevailing. That’s also where energy efficiency more matters than performance.


Intel’s release of the Analytics for Wearables, or A-Wear developer program is another example of Intel’s strategic shift to embrace multi-OS computing environment.


Mobile computing CPU architecture giant ARM and mobile GPU giant Imagination Technologies are already championing OS-agnostic CPU architecture to get a head start in the rapid growing IoT and wearable device market.


The A-Wear developer program comes complete with a number of software components such as tools and algorithms as well as data management capabilities. The program was enabled to allow wearable device developers to develop and design their devices around the most optimal CPU and OS by simulating various design options on a virtual environment.


Intel, synonym with smart, connected 


Brian Krzanich, CEO with Intel Corp. said that these initiatives and projects show how the company is moving quickly to enable new market segments where everything is smart and connected.


"With our diverse product portfolio and developer tools that span key growth segments, operating systems and form factors, Intel offers hardware and software developers new ways to grow as well as design flexibility," stressed he. "If it's smart and connected, it is best with Intel."


The last piece of Intel’s technology puzzle for new market segments is its Quark- processor-baed Edison CPU, a postage stamp-size computer with a built-in wireless. Widely available now, the platform is meant to become a brain of wearable computing device.


On top of that, Intel unveiled the first commercial availability of the Intel XMM 7260 modem, now shipping in the Samsung  Galaxy Alpha Smartphone for Europe and other regional markets.


OS agnostic 


The Intel XMM 7260 and Intel XMM 7262 modems support one of the industry's fastest mobile standards, delivering Category 6 data rates up to 300 Mbps.


The modems are Intel's second-generation LTE platforms and provide device manufacturers a high-performance, power-efficient solution for the coming wave of LTE-Advanced networks and devices. 


 Intel also demonstrated how UIs, or user interfaces of future computing will revolution the way people interact with machines adopting natural language technologies like voice and gesture. A case in point is an upcoming Dell tablet with first-of-its-kind photo capabilities.


Computers see and understand


The new Dell Venue 8 7000 Series with Intel RealSense  snapshot is the world's thinnest tablet and will be available in time for the holiday season. Intel RealSense snapshot is an enhanced photography solution that creates a high-definition depth map to enable measurement, refocus and selective filters with a touch of a finger.


It will introduce new capabilities and new ways of using the tablet, opening up a new creative horizon for developers to come up with apps that change how consumers engage with their photos.


Intel Wireless Gigabit Docking – a full wireless experience that includes wireless docking, wireless display and wireless charging – was demonstrated via an Intel reference design based on a 14nm next-generation Intel processor.


Intel also demonstrated Intel Galileo Development Kit that is based on Intel Quark processors and Intel Gateway Solutions for the IoT, featuring Wind River and McAfee security products.



 


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