Intel Corp. president and COO Paul Otellini kicked off the company's annual Developer Forum in San Jose yesterday by sketching a world where "all computers will communicate" and "all communications devices will compute," with a healthy push from Intel silicon and common development environments.
And while megahertz may no longer be the be-all and end-all of processor performance -- Otellini showed off sample notebooks using Intel's battery-friendly "Banias" mobile processor and integrated-wireless-networking chipset due early in 2003 -- it's still pretty high on Intel's priorities, judging from his demonstration of a supercooled 0.13-micron Pentium 4 processor that clocked from 4.1GHz up to 4.684GHz before crashing.
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