Intel Advanced Technology Zone
There was a special booth created by Intel and its partners to showcase their latest technologies and innovations. Among them were Apple … demonstrating their Thunderbolt I/O technology. A NAS device from Promise was used and connected up to a Apple MacBook Pro via the Thunderbolt cable … it can offer speeds of upto 10Gbps. The demo we saw, currently topped 4Gbps (one-way) … not bad at all!
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There were several systems showing the performance of the onboard processor graphics found on Intel’s Sandy Bridge. You get to see some HD videos at full 1080p and stereoscopic 3D gaming (with 3D glasses of course) and there was a workstation built by Lenovo using a Xeon processor.
Classmate PC / Netbook / Tablets
We also saw Intel’s next generation of Classmate PCs and netbooks. It uses the newly announced ATOM Z670 processor and should be hitting classrooms around the world as we speak.
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Many OEM and white label manufacturers wer showing off their latest tablets using the new ATOM Z670 processor … all running Window 7. Interestingly, Razer demoed a mini-netbook style device which can be used as a gaming peripheral. The keys, I guess are programmable and can change into various icon-style buttons.
