The Intel booth this year is heavily focused on the low-power Atom chip. They demonstrated a wide variety of netbooks and ultra-mobile PC’s aimed at giving you the power of a laptop in the palm of your hand. An example is the just introduced OQO Model 2+ which includes the Atom chip, an OLED touch screen and 3G capability.
As for entertainment, they were showing newer versions of their Media Server/PVR and next-generation TV interfaces (coverflow-style channel flipping).
They are clearly excited about the Widget Channel, which they developed with Yahoo! (using the Widget Channel Framework). They were showing widgets on Toshiba and Gigabyte Blu-ray players in 1080p and also on Samsung set-top boxes using tru2way.
There were demonstrations of 35 games on micro-polarized displays (Smooth Creations iZ3d) and powered by Intel’s Core i7 4-cores, 8-threads… Perhaps the most compelling part was the Oakley-esque 3D glasses!
To cap it off, Intel was showing (front-and-center) the trailer for Monsters vs. Aliens on a 3D TV which reportedly had been rendered in real-time using Intel’s Intru 3D software. Even Jeffrey Katzenberg stopped by (with his friend Bob) to check things out.
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