Innovation and Integration
In a speech that seemingly-belonged to the now-departed Pat Gelsinger, Intel's Sean Maloney put on the bravest of faces and made a valiant effort evangelizing Moore's Law and Intel's advances in 32nm and 22nm manufacturing technologies, under the keynote header "innovation and integration".
Maloney, the newly promoted executive vice president and general manager of the Intel Architecture Group, waxed lyrical about Intel integrating graphics into several of its future chip products for the first time, even as the audience remained slightly skeptical.
But Maloney took it all in his stride, proclaiming that the "rapidly increasing number of transistors and processor instructions we add have made possible the integration of more and more capabilities and features within our processors".
The CEO in waiting told his audience that the sheer amount of innovation going on in the industry could mean only good things for "consumers, gamers and businesses which buy these Intel-based computers".
Getting a chance to play around with some new kit, Maloney showed off a Westmere-based PC which he claimed was much quicker when dealing with everyday, mundane computer tasks like Web-surfing with multiple windows open, something most of us now do on a daily basis.
But Westmere wasn't singled out just for its speed, or the fact that it's built on 32nm technology, but also because it happens to be the first Intel processor to integrate a graphics die straight into the processor's package.