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Gallery: Hottest tech from IDF 2009

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    ZDNet UK editor Rupert Goodwins walked the floor at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco where he captured the hightlights.

    The Intel Developer Forum always has a theme. This year, it's scribbles. Whiteboards throughout the event invite passing engineers and others to write down their ideas, predictions, wishes and observations — as demonstrated by a giant engineer covering the conference center with graffiti.

    Captions and Photo Credit: Rupert Goodwins

    Published: September 25, 2009 -- 12:24 GMT (05:24 PDT)

    Caption by: Andy Smith

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    Intel is always keen to lead by example, often with concept devices that show where the company wants the market to go. Here, the 2009 concept laptop sprouts three touch sub-screens under the main display, each capable of showing content, widgets or user interface components. Why three instead of one long one? Nobody makes long ones.

    Credit: Rupert Goodwins

    Published: September 25, 2009 -- 12:24 GMT (05:24 PDT)

    Caption by: Andy Smith

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    This Umid Atom-powered ultra-mini-notebook/mobile internet device/micro-netbook (choose one) is the closest we've seen to our favourite portable form factor, the Psion Series 5. Now, if only they could get the battery life and responsiveness up to Psion's standards as well, they could be onto something.

    Credit: Rupert Goodwins

    Published: September 25, 2009 -- 12:24 GMT (05:24 PDT)

    Caption by: Andy Smith

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    One of the most exciting demonstrations of the show used seven of these experimental SSDs to produce 4Gbps hard disk throughput and a million disk operations a second. That's just by taking standard SSD chips and giving them a PCIe interface, which promises great things for the very near future once this mix of technologies is commercialized.

    Credit: Rupert Goodwins

    Published: September 25, 2009 -- 12:24 GMT (05:24 PDT)

    Caption by: Andy Smith

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    Intel unveiled a new micro-server format, which it says will let people build high-power systems in small spaces without having to get into blades, racks and all those old ideas. It can only support a single processor — but with eight cores coming down the road, that's not the limitation it used to be.

    Credit: Rupert Goodwins

    Published: September 25, 2009 -- 12:24 GMT (05:24 PDT)

    Caption by: Andy Smith

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    Your next USB hub won't look like this - unless you really need USB 3.0 right now this minute. It might look messy, but this is the final stage of development before consumer-grade products arrive: the standard is progressing fast.

    Credit: Rupert Goodwins

    Published: September 25, 2009 -- 12:24 GMT (05:24 PDT)

    Caption by: Andy Smith

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    Any new standard needs test equipment, and this is currently the only way to give USB 3.0 a good thrashing before deciding it's good enough to sell. Each individual USB signal is rapidly tweaked and the results carefully analyzed, at the sort of speeds that only five years ago would have needed a box the size of the Tardis to manage.

    Credit: Rupert Goodwins

    Published: September 25, 2009 -- 12:24 GMT (05:24 PDT)

    Caption by: Andy Smith

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    These two cards contain complete TV, digital radio and GPS receivers. Or rather, they don't — they contain just enough silicon to convert any radio signal on the VHF and UHF bands to a bitstream, and the host PC then does all the work to extract the information. Software-defined radio is here to stay.

    Credit: Rupert Goodwins

    Published: September 25, 2009 -- 12:24 GMT (05:24 PDT)

    Caption by: Andy Smith

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    Crosstown traffic won't be the same if this Intel invention takes off: your brake lights and junction traffic signals will be modulated with 200Kbps data that constantly relays information to your vehicle and others about what's happening ahead and behind. It’s like radio networking, but much cheaper and with no need for a license.

    Credit: Rupert Goodwins

    Published: September 25, 2009 -- 12:24 GMT (05:24 PDT)

    Caption by: Andy Smith

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    Ever wondered what 100Gbps from a desktop system would look like? This. By bonding together multiple 10Gbps signals and very smart network controllers, incredible throughput is achieved without slugging the host system to death.

    Credit: Rupert Goodwins

    Published: September 25, 2009 -- 12:24 GMT (05:24 PDT)

    Caption by: Andy Smith

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    Intel's Turbo Mode monitors the state of a processor chip and overclocks components as much as it can while staying within the thermal limits. Here, the next generation Turbo Mode checks the temperature of two components — the graphics and the processor die — so that when they're in the same package, they can each use as much or as little of the thermal headroom as they need.

    Credit: Rupert Goodwins

    Published: September 25, 2009 -- 12:24 GMT (05:24 PDT)

    Caption by: Andy Smith

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Check out the technology that attracted ZDNet UK editor Rupert Goodwins at IDF in San Francisco where he captured the hightlights.

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Your next USB hub won't look like this - unless you really need USB 3.0 right now this minute. It might look messy, but this is the final stage of development before consumer-grade products arrive: the standard is progressing fast.

Credit: Rupert Goodwins

Published: September 25, 2009 -- 12:24 GMT (05:24 PDT)

Caption by: Andy Smith

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