Technology Innovation Accelerated Award Winners Announced

Sixteen demos in a total of six categories vied as finalists for the awards, which recognize technological pioneering and adoption of Intel’s platform strategy. The company’s platform strategy centers on the integration of suites of hardware, software, services and support that enable new capabilities for people in all facets of their lives – at work and at home, in productivity, information, entertainment and healthcare.

One Stop Systems’ entry won “Best of Show” with its industry-first demo of an x8 PCIe cable interconnect interfacing with a disk array enclosure that allows for higher performance, lower cost to implement, easy upgradeability and simpler software interfacing. The x8 cable interface has a throughput rated up to 20Gb per second, enabling state of the art performance in storage systems.

Categorical winners were:

• Mobility – Zinc Matrix Power for its “Rechargable Silver -- Zinc Notebook Computer Battery” demo. Zinc Matrix Power’s silver-zinc battery designs have the potential to double the capacity of mobile batteries using safe and environmentally friendly technology.
• Data Center – NEC Corporation for its “Dynamic Reconfiguration of CPU and Memory Resources” demo, which shows the ability to bring online additional processors and memory capacity without the need to perform a system shutdown and reboot. This is accomplished using the next-generation Microsoft Server OS (Longhorn) and NEC 1320Xf platform that capitalizes on Intel’s newest dual core Itanium2 Montecito processors (1.6GHz and 24MB cache). It solves the business problem of increasing need for processing power and memory requirements without interruption to the business IT activities.
• Digital Home – Intellon Corporation’s demo of Digital Deck Home Media System and Home Plug Network Backbone showcased HomePlug AV powerline technology with a DigitalDeck media device. The demo showed the ability to stream media from PC media server to media device over powerline.
• Digital Office – Staccato Communications for its “Minicard Bluetooth+Certified Wireless USB Combo” demo, which showed an innovative and leading solution that supports wireless USB technology and Bluetooth on a single device that will enhance the user experience with new wireless USB devices. This is another significant step in the evolution towards unwiring the digital world.
• Technology and Research – PLX Technology’s demo of Universality and Power of PCI Express showed a USB bridge device and a PCI Express switch. In the demo, video is streamed over USB from a UMPC to a desktop PC and through the switch to a display over a CAT 6 cable. The bridge allows the UMPC to act as a storage device to the PC. This enables two or more PCs to use the USB interface to quickly and economically share files, as well as transfer disk drives' contents when upgrading PCs.
• Storage – Emulex Corporation for its IOC 504 and IOP 502M Controllers – Complete Embedded F demo. Shown were two industry-first products: The IOP 502M and the IOC 504, both members of the new multi-protocol family of ASICs allowing storage system providers to leverage designs for many different applications, reducing development costs and time to market.

All non-Intel exhibitors and sponsors of IDF were eligible. Judging the finalists were hundreds of journalists and analysts covering the three-day technical conference at Moscone Center.

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