3 posts and columns on Justin Rattner

Just Slap the Thing in a MacBook, Already, Will Ya?

in News on December 2, 2009 at 2:12 pm PT

With 1.3-billion transistors and a 48-core processor, Intel’s new “Single-chip Cloud Computer” could power a formidable computer indeed. But it will be a while before it reaches market, if ever. Uncrated at an event in San Francisco Wednesday, the next-generation chip boasts approximately 10 to 20 times the processing power found inside current Intel “Core” CPUs.
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China Needn't Surpass U.S., Intel CTO Says

in News on November 17, 2009 at 9:59 am PT

China’s factories have long churned out high tech products. A big question facing Silicon Valley–underscored in a survey released Monday by Intel and Newsweek–is how big a role the country will play in dreaming up those gadgets.

No, That’s a Terminator 2 Script. This Is the Programmable Matter Roadmap

in News on August 22, 2008 at 8:28 am PT

If, as futurist Arthur C. Clarke once wrote, “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,” then Intel may well be the Hogwarts of IT. At the chipmaker’s Developer Forum on Thursday, CTO Justin Rattner discussed a handful of new technologies that might appear to be magic to those unfamiliar with the concepts of wireless power transmission and programmable matter.