Intel's CES booth tour

It's Intel inside at the chipmaker's massive booth — even if the company has dropped that slogan for the new one plastered below.

And, of course, it's Intel inside tons of devices on display, from PCs connected to massive displays ...


... to gaming rigs ...


... to tuner-equipped Pocket PCs ...


... to that new Dell box that we just can't escape.


Dual-core everywhere.


Don't you hate it when big companies try too hard to be hip?


Ah, much better!


We still haven't figured out what these glowing tubes hanging from the ceiling are meant to be, but they sure look purty.


Still more sweet boxes.


So, Intel can help you stay in shape, too.


The obligatory HD DVD plug.


Jeff Goldblum in "Independence Day," saving the world using a Mac. No doubt included here as a winking acknowledgement of Intel's newest partner, whose own Intel-based gear will probably make its debut in just a few days.

[steph way @ Jan 7th 2006 8:42AM]

Intel: leap ahead = meh....

AMD: leaps beyond = yeah!



www.leapsbeyond.com

[sk @ Jan 7th 2006 8:57AM]

Intel is selling old tech for new one. Intel's Core Duo is a revised Pentium III. If they call that leap ahead, AMD must be leaps beyond.

And whats all the hype about viive. Isn't that all available today with products from other companies?

[XGM @ Jan 7th 2006 9:24AM]

Yup AMD's definitaly better. They had asked intel for a challenge and they refused. But finally the Dual-core Optron VS Xeon challenge was accepted.



Bet u cant guess who won, rofl



http://www.amd.com/us-en/0,,3715_13368_13369,00.html





Heres the important part of that page



SPECint� rate2000 �

Dual-Core AMD Opteron processor Model 280 outperforms the dual-core Xeon 2.8GHz processor by 28 %



SPECfp� rate2000 �

Dual-Core AMD Opteron processor Model 280 outperforms the dual-core Xeon 2.8GHz processor by 76 %



SPECjbb�2005 �

Dual-Core AMD Opteron processor Model 280 outperforms the dual-core Xeon 2.8GHz by 13%

[Min Thu @ Jan 7th 2006 9:59AM]

Intel viiv vs. AMD Opteron Dual-core?



Isn't Intel viiv great? I think we should have some major comparisons between these two!

[josh @ Jan 7th 2006 12:12PM]

What's up with the Intel picture of the girl on the road bike???

[John Doe @ Jan 7th 2006 3:20PM]

Morons. Intel's next gen desktop chips aren't even on the market yet. Way to spit on a company who hasn't even offered up the first salvo. I've seen grade-schoolers who have a higher maturity level. When you consider that the Core Duo's preliminary benchmarks keeps pretty damn good pace with AMD�s Athlon X2�s and this is just a mobile CPU. I�d suggest that you shut the hell up until this fall les your comments are referenced later to make you look like the complete dumbass.

This post isn�t brought to you from an Intel fanboi but someone who is sick of seeing the maturity level of engadget brought down to the equivalent of name calling on the playground. Grow the hell up.

[obm @ Jan 7th 2006 5:06PM]

Intel p4 series is a bad line, they do sacrifice too much for higher clock speed. It generates heat equivalent to that of a nuclear reactor of same size (this is real, based on dye size), and yet it is no better than a p-m. AMD offers way better cpus for the desktop market.

But (and this is a big one)

Never underestimate pIII. It had a very good architecture but it was abandoned due to lower clock rate. However it can pull much more work per unit time, similar to amd athlon. It is no surprise that centrino (p-m) is a descendant of the p-III series not p4. AMD is still to work on cpu's with better power save functions to enter the mobile market. Intel does see the future on this, and they already dominate the super-computer and server market (not due to a "superior technology" but clever funding and marketing, for example you can get huge financial support for buying/creating an intel based scientific supercomputer). AMD is also trying to establish a strong presence in mobile market, but due to huge branding campaigns intel performed, it will be a hard process.

Remember, Apple will be gradually passing to intel begging this year. The cpu they will use is again a descendant of P-III, with a security "enhancement" in order to run "apple-only" programs. The reason they ditched IBM power-pc's is most probably marketing reasons, maybe smt related to cell. But this new cpu of intel's does provide more performance than dual core g5 in many applications. (based on development version of tiger)

[dutch @ Jan 7th 2006 7:14PM]

The glowing tubes are a media experience thing. You move a tube over one of the pedastels and some media plays on the pedastel's screen.

[MikeRoz @ Jan 7th 2006 7:35PM]

#2, the K8 core that AMD has been tweaking and revising forever now is actually pretty old too. Both companies have put a lot of work into refining their architectures, and both have put out very good products.



I for one am impressed by any processor like Yonah that can give the Athlon X2 a run for its money while actually netting better battery life than its single-core predecessor. And I'm still looking forward to Conroe and Merom.

[Benson Leung @ Jan 7th 2006 9:31PM]

#2... don't post technical details if you don't know jack about what you're talking about.



The Core Duo is a revised Pentium III? Probably in the same way that the AMD Hammer K8 architecture is a revised K7...



First off the Yonah is the first chip out with the 65 nm process... Intel will beat AMD to that milestone by at least 9 months.



Secondly, the Yonah's cache structure is more advanced than the AMD K8's. Shared L2 cache means that L1 cache-to-cache transfers are done an an internal bus at clock speed.



With the combination of the more advanced process, to the better cache, the Yonah, pound for pound can spar evenly with the AMD Athlon X2 3800+... a DESKTOP chip. The Yonah is a measly mobile chip, and has much better power consumption to boot than the AMDs.



Not that any of that would mean anything to you fanboys who just want to SOUND like they know what the heck you're talking about with this architecture stuff.

[Johny Doe @ Jan 8th 2006 2:51PM]

You do realize the irony of your post, in commenting on their maturity level, you start making the personal attacks and thus bringing the maturity level down to where you claim it is

[Leo @ Jan 10th 2006 12:44AM]

Do I see a Packard freakin Bell?

[whimsey @ Jan 10th 2006 9:49PM]

Hey, thanks for posting pics of the MiSperes (the mysterious glowing tubes nobody can seem to figure out). I've been wishing I'd had a chance to photograph them myself.



If anyone's curious, the MiSphere strings were integrated with RFID units; they could trigger MPEG media to appear on the plasma displays hanging in the area. Speaking as an unrepentant video geek, it was a pretty nifty idea for a tradeshow booth.