IDF: Intel spotlights mobile development on zero-day

Intel has unveiled its new mobility research plans, entitled "Carry Small, Live Large," with the aim to produce more portable, intuitive and power efficient mobile computing devices.

Although the main schedule of the annual Intel Developer Forum event taking place this year in Shanghai begins with keynote presentations tomorrow, the chipmaker made a number of so-called "zero-day" announcements around four main mobile technology categories.

Kevin Kahn Intel senior fellow and Communications Technology Lab director presented the new mobile strategy. "Imagine a day when a single device small enough to fit in your pocket has the power of a laptop and can deliver a rich computing, telephony, media, gaming, and Internet experience...when this device knows your tendencies and preferences and can adapt and optimise its interfaces to match what you are doing at any point any time [and]...when this device is not constrained as a standalone unit, but can dynamically become a hybrid combination of other computing and multimedia devices in close proximity," he subsequently blogged on Research@Intel.

He outlined how smaller form factors and improved power efficiency would form one area of development enabled by complete digital multi-radios and reconfigurable antennae, as well as facilitate hardware control of platform components for longer and deeper sleep states, alongside algorithms to control when and how a radio can be powered down.

Intel is researching techniques for mobile devices of the future to have greater awareness of the user's preferences to deliver new, more personalised services and capabilities using sensors, context frameworks, web-based services as well as privacy and security for user data protection.

He said researchers were also looking at how tomorrow's mobile devices could operate beyond their own form factor or built-in capabilities through power and wireless device and discovery setup demonstrations with nearby wireless devices.

And, while incompatibilities are currently a barrier to expanding the capabilities of mobile devices and the mobile computing ecosystem, Intel added that it is working with standards bodies and partners to ensure development of standards to realise its "carry small, live large" vision.

Other demos included new research to enable adaptable compression for providing high definition (HD) TV quality display over wireless; composable computing as a way of easily sharing nearby computing devices and peripherals and overcoming display and input limitations of small form factor devices; and a third party extensible framework for developing context-aware mobile computing, whish is able to adapt application functionality and interfaces to where a user is and what they doing, as well as their personal preferences.

Yesterday Intel announced a partnership with STMicroelectronics to co-develop and produce Flash memory products.

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