How Intel's 4th Generation processor will revolutionise computing - Firstpost

New Delhi: Intel launched its 4th Generation Core processor in India on Wednesday hoping it will give a thrust to 2-in-1 devices. In an interview with Firstpost, Leighton Phillips, the product and pricing head (Asia Pacific) spoke to us about how the 4th Generation Core processor will change computing, it's potential for the Ultrabooks and why perceptual computing is the next big thing for emerging markets. How the 4th Generation Intel Core Processor will change computing… For 20 years we have been constrained on what design flexibilities we have with mobile computing, largely driven because the wattage of the processor. It has to sit under the computer and a function of that was because of its clamshell orientation. The Intel logo: Reuters That continues, but there's clearly a global trend towards tablet usage models and as a function of the 4th generation core on how low we can drive the power of these devices, we can begin to move that processor behind the screen and really create a true 2-in-1 experience of the best of the notebook and the best of the tablet in one. So I think that's one of the major implications of the 4th Gen Core. Usually when we shrink down to the fitness of devices – doesn't matter if it is a phone or a tablet – you have to make trade offs – battery, graphics, power, performance. Now with the 4th Gen Core we demonstrated today was we can still deliver the performance of discreet graphic capabilities embedded inside the 4th Gen. We can deliver that quality of graphics in the form factors of these 2-in-1 tablet/devices and that's compelling to a lot of users. Saying all that, say you want to form factors, the performance and the graphics and you also want battery life. With 4th Gen Core we do all that. The sleekest form factors, tablet and notebook plus performance and graphics. It infact is the greatest generation on generation battery life – so for 9 hours you won't have to change the battery watching high definition video. So when you bring a lot together the magic happens and certainly what we are seeing from how the industry is reacting to that and creating designs around that concept, its extremely healthy and we are very confident. Devices will get slimmer from 1.5 inches thick to 10 mm… Before the ultrabook was invented, all of the core platforms on notebooks were running at around 35 watts and the average thickness of a product back then was 1.5 inches. Today with 6 watts we can get down to sub 10 mm thickness when you detach the screen from the keyboard with this amazing battery life. So on an average today, premium notebooks run between 17 to 15 watts – but with 4th Gen we can go down to 6 watts where we can create these really amazing form factors and tablet experiences. Listen to audio The best features that the 4th Gen Core will enable are… Better screen resolution: Increasingly today there's the adoption of 4K screens – the most beautiful definition screens on the planet. The 4th Gen Core supports the 4K based definition content. Superior Graphics: As these devices become 2-in-1 and increasingly used more like a tablet, things like taking a video will happen more on a device like this. Typically when we are taking video like that, there's a lot of shake and shudder and usually one would have to go and edit out that – and that's time consuming, its a pain. Natively when you run a video on 4th Gen Core it will remove as much of that shake and shudder without the user doing anything. It will natively do all of that. With 4th Gen Core we can also project the wireless display screen to your home TV with much better latency. The communication happening between a TV and a 4th Gen Core device is that much better. It also enables much better online gamin thanks to very good latency between the device and the screen, which allows very interactive type of gaming experiences. Some other elements associated with 4th Gen Core are, every ultrabook that we build with 4th Gen Core will be touch enabled, it will have the full hardware structure to support full voice control, we are rolling out language support over the next year in different countries around the world. What we have also showed is where we are heading in terms of having this kind of performance we can support new capabilities like full gesture control of the device. There are some usage models of touch, keyboard and mouse which may not be the best way to interact with the content. So we have already invested in 3D camera technologies that will embed into the device to support really native gesture interaction. Collaboration with application developers… Intel for more than a decade has had a developer program. As we introduce new platforms, we have an early access program for developers all around the world whereby they can access our technology to begin to experiment and evaluate how they exploit those capabilities for their software titles – whether its gaming, media applications, education, etc. What we showed today was some of the work we have done around perceptual computing – gesture and voice and touch. We built a whole perceptual computing package that has cameras and API's and software tools and everything built into it and we provide that to the software ecosystem to really start experimenting with how they begin to adopt perceptual interfacing with computing. We will continue to grow that and drive that. As I say the most imminent condition to the software computing is really around perceptual computing. Leighton Phillips: Image by Intel Perceptual computing is important for India… I think for India and emerging markets in general, in many cases they have their own language, IT literacy continues to be developed and needs ongoing development to really help the mainstream consumer leverage the technology to their benefit. To date there's been a tendency to particularly use a keyboard and a mouse as ways to interface technology. What we are seeing with touch is we are seeing a far more intuitive way to operate which is not just getting around the device, but also with content consumption, creation, etc. But even in touch there are some usage models which may not be as intuitive as say voice could be. A classic example is when we post on Facebook. We do that either through the keyboard or screen touch – but it is far more natural to speak to the device and you actually may also want to do that while you are doing something on the device. It's common particularly for the younger generation that they are doing more than one thing on the device. So, scrolling through the content with touch at the same time, asking the tablet or the Ultrabook to play you some music or to go post something on Facebook or to go find the price of something on Amazon — that's very real and we can do that now with these platforms. So I think as you open up more interfaces you begin to open up greater flexibility to different parts of the community to better realise technology. Whether it's India or Indonesia or Brazil I think it will help increase the growth and adoption of technology. Multidimensional, multitasking and across interfaces… In most computing today – tablets, phone, the desktop, the notebook – usually the mode of operation is usually one user one application, one device. As we begin to increase the sensory capabilities of these devices we are broadly expanding multiple interfaces and multiple users interacting with the device at the same time. This is already coming out in the 2-in-1 device and we are really excited to see how this is surfacing in the all in one device category, to a point where we see a vision for the all in one category, that is its screen. In its very large form factors of 21, 22, 23 to 27 inch screens which can lay fully flat, the device does not just have touch as an interface, it has voice, gesture and suddenly you have even four people interacting with the device and the content all at once on the one device through these interfaces. So that's really exciting. And we know that is just blowing out the potential of the software ecosystem to create a whole new wave of innovative experiences on these platforms. The all in one device… We've always envisaged the all in one not to be limited to the study. We have always thought of this as a platform which would sit on the kitchen bench or the lounge or the family room. And the reason we envision that is we see these multiple senses coming true, you can have scenarios where a child is doing their homework using the keyboard and the mouse, while the mother walks past and speaks to the device and the device responds to her and another child can gesture to the device and it does something as a function of that gesture. That's the capability we expect and the Intel architecture is not just creating the sensor hub to turn on all the sensory capability but just the real performance to facilitate that happen. via Technology - Google News http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNERemZkZF67SMI5NnmprhDNK9jbBw&url=http://www.firstpost.com/tech/how-intels-4th-generation-processor-will-revolutionise-computing-909027.html

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