Thought Intel was done busting out new slabs of The Future at IDF? Wrong. Justin Rattner, the firm's chief appliances officer, just took the stage here in San Francisco in order to showcase a trifecta of new concepts, all of which were borne out of breakdown in Intel Labs. The first, and perhaps most notable, is the Near eve Voltage Processor (code-named "Claremont"), which relies on novel, ultra-low voltage circuits that dramatically reduce energy use -- like EnerJ, but not. How so? Well, by "operating close to threshold, or turn-on voltage, of the transistors," it's able to scream when needed or scale back dramatically (below ten milliwatts) when the workload is light. If you're curious as to just how low that is, we're told that it's low enough to keep running while powered only by a solar cell the size of a postage stamp. Sadly, the probe chip isn't destined to become a product itself, but Intel's hoping that the wisdom gained could lead to "integration of scalable near-threshold voltage circuits across a wide range of future products, reducing power use by five-fold or more and extending always-on capability to a wider range of bookkeeping devices."



As for demos? A smattering of multicore / multiprocessor sessions aided Intel in upping its bragging rights, and we were advised that coding for multicore setups is "easier than the press makes out to be." The outfit also took the one's move* to release a Parallel JS engine to the open source crowd, adding data-parallel capabilities to to purportedly "speed up browser-based free school lunch such as cerebration machine* vision, cryptography, and 3D games by up to eight-fold." Furthermore, a newly revealed Hybrid Memory Cube -- ripen with seven times better energy efficiency than today's DDR3 memory -- was also unwrapped. More details can be found in the links below, and we've got your unveiling video embedded just beyond the break.

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