Claire Quinn
Laura Schmitt
Luke Barry
Joe Freyne
Colm O’Brien
Caroline Leahy
Intel Research: Exploring the Future
1. In the beginning…2. R&D 3. Intel Capital4. Good Moves5. Failed Diversification6. Back to the Future
In the beginning…
Intel FoundersThe founders of Intel posing with a rubylith of the 8080 CPU in 1978. From left to right: Andy Grove, Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore. (Image courtesy of Intel Corporation.)
The number of transistors on a chip roughly doubles every two years.
Calculator Brain
1972: 4004 processor
1975The Altair 8800 microcomputer
1981The Intel® 8088IBM
1998The Intel® Pentium II Xeon processors
2001The Itanium® processor
2003Intel® Centrino® mobile technology
2005Dual-core technology
2009Intel Atom Processor for notebooks
R & D
• Strong R&D tradition
• Incremental innovations ensure through a large number of labs
• How to maintain a 10% growth a year?
Intel exploratory research model
University Grants & Labs
Grants
University Lab Projects
Internal Research Projects
Intel Capital
Sampling Research amplification Tech development
New roadmap
DetectionDiscontinuity?
StrategicDecision
Build Prototypes & Systems Perspective
Concurrent Research
“Most true innovation happens in small environments” – John
Miller
Intel Capital(ICap)
• Founded in 1991
• Separate from Intel Research
• Small start up companies
• Equity positions in developing technologies
Historic Portfolio Return
• More than 10 billion invested since 1991
• Over 1100 companies
• 51 countries
• 189 companies have gone public
• 258 acquired in Mergers
Current Activity
• 327 million Invested in 2010
• 119 companies involved
• Almost 50% invested outside of North America
• 300 million is to be set aside for investment in the new idea of “Ultrabooks”
Ultrabooks
• Ultimate notebook
• Rival Apple
• 40% market share
• 3 lbs weight and .8 inch thickness
DRAM-Microprocessors
• DRAM.• Intel’s competitive advantage.• Competition entering the DRAM market.• Entry into the Microprocessors market.• Results of entering the Microprocessors
market.
Branding Intel.The co-operative marketing programme.
Failed Diversification• Poor M&A’s and Failed Diversification Attempts
– ’99 -’02 Communications Boom
– ‘04 Digital Television LCoS Chip
– ‘07 Mobile Market Liquid Crystallization on Silicon (LCoS)
Intel in “Post-PC” World• 2005: Mini coup for Intel - Apple announces it will abandon
PowerPC and adopts Intel across its entire MacBook line
• 2006: Intel exit the mobile phone market entirely
• 2007: The iPhone dawns a new age in mobile computing
• 2010: iPad released
Intel's impact on Ethernet.
Back to the future
• Intel science and technology centers (ISTC)• Cloud computing research• ISTC for embedded computing• Intel Opens Submission Process for Future
ISTCs
Toyota teams up with Intel for next-gen car infotainment
Threats
Websites of Israel military and intelligence services down for 2 days
Combating Multiple Embedded Security Threats
• Reported vulnerabilities are at an all time high, up 36%. (IBM X-Force 2010 Mid-Year Trend and Risk Report)
• 76,000,000 smart electric meters worldwide• 521,000,000 voice over IP users• 3,000,000,000 downloads to mobile devices per year• 60,000 new malware signatures are identified each
and every day
Solution
• Intel® Quick Assist Technology provides a framework for accelerating security workloads
• Intel Technology Will Eliminate Zero-Day Threats