Speaking on the final day from the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2011 here, Intel Chief Technology Officer Justin Rattner said the company was developing technologies to take computing to another level, with better performance and lower power consumption.
Energy efficiency was a key theme of the three-day IDF summit this year and numerous Intel executives demonstrated the efforts being taken by the organization in this regard. The move assumes significance in light of consumers gravitating toward always-on computing devices having a greater degree of mobility.
Rattner said that Intel's multi-core technologies, in which more than one processing engine is included in a single chip, has become the accepted methodology with regard to increasing performance while keeping power consumption low.
These systems would enable faster web access, improve PC user security and slow up the requirement for wireless infrastructure to provide the optimal on the internet experience, among other benefits, he said.
Rattner demonstrated a brand new technology for better PC security, wherein users would have the ability to see images and other data on social networking websites and other platforms only if the computer recognises his / her face.
The technology will enable parallel cryptographic and facial recognition services to enhance security on Ultrabooks and traditional notebooks, besides desktop Computers, with the help of Intel microprocessors, he said.
Intel was also collaborating with China Mobile to change existing "costly base-station hardware used on cell towers today having a fully programmable and far more cost-effective, software-based PC alternative", he or she noted.
Rattner revealed that Intel Labs was working on the new 'Near-Threshold Voltage Processor' that has enabled an experimental Pentium-class processor unit to provide five times better energy efficiency levels, with the ability to run a processor with a solar cell how big postage stamp.
He said the extreme-scale computing technologies that Intel was working on would help achieve the aim of a nearly 300 times improvement in energy efficiency levels within the next ten years and potentially even a 1, 000-fold improvement later on.
Rattner also disclosed a new JavaScript solution that could accelerate browser-based content such as 3D games by up in order to eight-fold and said that Intel would also soon release the world's first processor with Many-Integrated Core (MIC) structures, which promises to revolutionise high-performance computing.