Craig Barrett: A Path to Innovation

After that the floor was given to Craig Barrett, Intel Chief Executive Officer. It looks like this is going to be the last IDF for him. He was not very eager to talk about it, but he admitted that he decided to give way to the young. Anyway, during his keynote presentation called “A Path to Innovation?he focused mostly on the importance of innovative technologies for the evolution of the today’s world, on the factors that drive this innovation, on the foundation, building blocks and software aspects of innovation.

We all know that technology is growing. Innovations around us changed the way we look at different things. Take, for instance, car and airplane invention. These events have greatly affected the development of the world. During the last few years one basic form of technology changed the way we interact and communicate. Another example: first integrated circuit, which is around 50 years old today, has been dominating every aspect of electronics since then. We are witnessing the real-time working convergence of computers and communication combined with digital content. And it does change our life a lot: the way we work, educate, live.

RND is absolutely critical. You have the choice: you can lead or be led. And you never know where it will take you. The transistors led to microprocessor, computer, cell phones. RND drives us to the next level of innovation. According to Intel, success will go to the people who continue to invest in the future, create new ideas. This is what justifies for huge investments Intel is making into research and development of new solutions today. One of the things that has driven semiconductor industry is Moor’s law invented in 1965 (for more details about Moor’s Law you can check our article called Moore’s Law). That law is the foundation of what we talking today about: innovation and integration. Moor’s law is not slowing down and we are very confident about it continuing.

Craig Barrett, Intel CEO: "There is a lot of life in this technology".

During this IDF we should be able to learn quite a few interesting things. In his first keynote presentation Intel CEO made a few formal announcements, so that we all know what to expect these days. Among the most interesting things will certainly be the BT virtualization technology, I/O acceleration technology, dual- and multi-core technology that allows using more transistors in cores and then combining many of those cores into a single device, and much more than that.