This year's Intel Developer Forum kicked off with a punch when Paul Otellini took the stage to discuss and reveal Intel roadmap leaps. With an unyielding commitment to Moore's Law, Otellini discussed Intel's tick-tock strategy and the path from 45nm to 32nm while offering a first-time glimpse at their latest feat--22nm process technology housing 2.9 billion transistors. Due to hit production in 2011, Intel has got an actual working prototype–another world's first. Check out the press release here: http://download.intel.com/pressroom/kits/events/idffall_2009/pdfs/22nm_factsheet.pdf

What makes this continuing tick-tock model so incredible is how it affects IT at every level. Intel continues to integrate more technologies on the chip that help enable IT to manage smarter. Showcasing this, Otellini talked about "building a continuum," a new concept that, in the future, can enable IT to have each and every system in their fleet–from handhelds, to smart phones, to mobile and desktop workstations, to servers, and more–seamlessly integrate, for greater ease of deployment, manageability, and security.

With growing data requirements penetrating every aspect of business along with shrinking budgets, new technologies like Intel's upcoming Westmere–Intel's family of next-generation high-k metal gate 32nm processors–are building the continuum through desktop, mobile, and server, all based on a single architecture. Take a look at YouTube for more from Sanjay Natarajan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4XyLRROZmQ&feature=player_embedded 

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