Today at IDF, I had the awesome opportunity to talk with Intel Senior Fellow Stephen Pawlowski following several sessions I attended with him at the helm. This was probably the greatest quote I have thus far received at the show, and yes, it's on the record:

"I've worked at Intel for 22 years. Never has my career been more exciting and challenging than it is right now. Never. There is all kinds of cool stuff, and we're pushing the boundaries in a lot of different areas. I'm really excited because in some ways we've taken some bold steps, and when you hear some of the talk around here [IDF] about people going, 'boy you know, it would be really great if you guys did this' or 'you really need to do that' and 'the competition is doing this' and I'm thinking... we're already on our way and I just can't tell you about it."

Believe me when I say, that this is the feeling we are getting from IDF across the map. That exciting things are burgeoning onto the landscape at a pace way ahead of any curve, in fact, they're creating the curve. With technologies such as 32nm that are bursting onto the scene along with 22nm and even 15nm (!) on the horizon, Intel is ensuring that the IT universe as we know it will see energy-efficient performance that will introduce us to the next level of cloud computing and truly virtualized data centers while building on the momentum of security and manageability built right onto the chip.

For more on Intel Senior Fellow Stephen Pawlowski, check out his bio at http://www.intel.com/pressroom/kits/bios/pawlowski.htm.