Robert
Morris - VP Personal Systems and Storage, Director Almaden Research
Center, IBM
Pervasive Computing:
What It Will Take
All revolutions,
in computing or anywhere else, grow out of human experience. It was
the new human experience that drove the transition from mainframe
to departmental computing, from departmental to personal, from Internet
to Web, and now from personal to pervasive computing. Pervasive computing
has been variously described as ubiquitous, invisible and wonderful.
It has also been described as noisy, intrusive and over-hyped. But
we've tasted the concept and there's no going back.
What will it
take to fulfill the promise and create an experience that delights
billions of users? Those in the microprocessor or disk drive business
know that a capability oversupply shock has long been predicted yet
never sighted. Why? Because our meager attempts at getting a decent
user experience have soaked up all the MIPS and gigabytes technology
can muster.
Those in technology
know that only advances by orders of magnitude really matter. Those
in human-computer-interaction know that orders of magnitude -- and
maybe more -- are needed to solve the interface problem. Dr. Morris
will show that improvement by orders of magnitude are in store and
will discuss atomic-level and quantum computing projects under way
at IBM Research, work that has implications for both computing and
storage. He will then discuss what kinds of user interfaces (and several
other benefits to mankind) might result.
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Session
1
9:20 am
PC
Processors
Moderator - Steve
Leibson, editor in chief of Microprocessor Report
We may be in the
“post-PC” era by some pundits' reckoning, but 130 million
or so PCs will ship this year. Consequently, it's hard to conclude that
the life has gone out of such a large, vibrant market. This session
brings the latest technological ideas and the newest microprocessors
and core logic that will power next year's PCs and embedded PCs.
Intel
Pentium 4 Processor: A Platform Perspective
Bill
Siu - Vice President, Architecture Group, General Manager Desktop
Platforms Group, Intel Corporation
The Intel Pentium
4 processor represents a revolutionary change to the PC platform.
The Intel Pentium 4 processor-based platform delivers dramatic advancements
in Intel's microprocessor microarchitecture and supporting platform
components. This presentation will discuss the Intel Pentium 4 processor
from a platform perspective.
Intel
Pentium 4 Processor: A 1.4+ GHz Performance Processor on a 0.18-Micron
Process
Michael
Upton - Principal Engineer, Desktop Platforms Group, Intel Corporation
The Intel Pentium
4 processor represents a quantum leap in Intel's design of high-performance
microprocessor microarchitecture for PC platforms. Fabricated on Intel's
0.18-micron process, this new microprocessor was designed for the
evolving Internet. This presentation will provide insight into the
microarchitectural advancements accomplished with the Intel Pentium
4 processor design.
Where's
Centaur?
Glenn
Henry - President, Centaur Technology, Inc.
After VIA acquired
Centaur, the company has gone quiet. Now, they're ready to talk: about
the three new processors appearing this year, about the new superscalar
CX processor rolling out next year, and about VIA's overall processor
strategy.
Motorola's
GHz+ SOI G4 PowerPC Microprocessor
David
Bearden - Senior Member of Technical Staff, Motorola
Motorola will
disclose its latest incarnation of their G4 family of top-end PowerPC
processors, injected with a whopping big dose of go-juice in the form
of silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology. This presentation will focus
on the issues surrounding the migration of G4 class microprocessor
designs to SOI as well as additional performance-enhancing architectural
features.
10:45 am: Break
Getting
Results: eCache on a PC Platform
Dean
Klein - VP of Integrated Products, Micron Technology, Inc.
Formal introduction
of Mamba, Micron's PC system chip incorporating embedded DRAM, an
AMD Athlon interface, and many additional system-oriented features.
SoC
with a 6th-Generation x86 Core
Luigi
Mantellassi - Director, Silicon Systems Development, STMicroelectronics
This presentation
will be the first public disclosure of STMicroelectronics' yet to
be named PC-on-a-Chip featuring extremely low-power operation and
high integration for information appliance applications.
Q&A
Panel
12:20 pm: Lunch sponsored
by 
Session
2
1:30 pm
Workstation
and Server Processors
Moderator - Kevin
Krewell, Senior Analyst and Senior Editor Microprocessor Report,
MicroDesign Resources
Processors for workstations
and servers emphasize performance over price and just about anything
else. This session reveals today's most advanced architectural and technological
concepts applied to microprocessor design to achieve the speed demanded
by these top-tier computers.
AMD's
Athlon: Architectural Enhancements for Advanced Multiprocessing Systems
Steve Polzin -System
Architect,
AMD
This presentation
discusses multiprocessing enhancements to the AMD Athlon processor's
internal cache as well as the challenges and design tradeoffs required
to make multiple hyper-GHz processors work in tandem.
21264E:
An Alpha Microprocessor with Fast and Smart L2 Cache
Sung
Bae Park - Principal Engineer, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
First formal
announcement of Samsung's latest iteration of the Alpha with details
of the L2 microarchitecture.
S/390:
A 64-bit Microprocessor
Eric
Schwarz - Chief Engineer, IBM Corp.
Mainframes continue
to evolve while maintaining binary compatibility with code written
in the 1960s. This presentation discusses a microprocessor implementation
of IBM's S/390 that adds 64-bit addressing to the architecture and
doubles the cache with respect to its predecessor using 47 million
transistors.
Power4:
Core Microarchitecture
Charles
Moore - Power4 Chief Engineer, IBM Corp.
At last year's
Microprocessor Forum, IBM disclosed a technological tour-de-force
called the Power4. This year, the company will disclose the core architecture
and pipeline. In addition, the presentation will discuss how the Power4
overcomes memory-latency problems.
Q&A Panel
3:15 pm: Break sponsored
by
Session
3
3:35 pm
Network
Processors
Moderator - Linley
Gwennap, founder and principal analyst of The Linley Group
Network processors
also need far more performance than conventional microprocessors, but
the parallel nature of the jobs they must perform drive the design of
microprocessors in new and interesting directions. Many new network
processors were introduced earlier this year at the Embedded Processor
Forum and this session rolls out still more.
SB-1250:
A High Performance, Power Efficient Chip Multiprocessor (CMP) Targeting
Networking Applications
Jim
Keller - Corporate Fellow and Chief Architect, SiByte, Inc.
This presentation
provides the first technical details of SiByte's SB-1250, which combines
two of the company's MIPS64-based SB-1 CPU cores with several high-performance,
on-chip network interfaces and peripherals. Estimated Stream and SPEC
benchmark data will also be revealed for the first time in this presentation.
XStream
Logic's Optical Network Processor
Mario
Nemirovsky - Founder, CTO, and Chief Architect, XStream Logic, Inc.
First architectural
unveiling of a high-performance, high-bandwidth network processor
core targeting OC-48 and OC-192 applications. This presentation will
explain how this new architecture achieves orders of magnitude performance
improvement over existing designs while presenting a simple, single-programming
interface.
Acappella:
A Platform for Multi-Channel Voice Processing
Lloyd
Palum - Principle Staff Engineer, Improv Systems Inc.
Improv Systems
rolled out a five-processor version of the JazzPSA platform at this
year's Embedded Processor Forum. Now, Improv Systems
is ready to reveal details of a two processor JazzPSA chip configured
and optimized for the multichannel Voice-over-Packet (VoP) market.
New Developments
in Intel's Internet Exchange Processor Family
Matthew Adiletta
- Intel Fellow and Director, Communication Processor Architecture, Intel
Corp.
Since first announcing
the first member of the Internet Exchange Processor family (the IXP1200
Network Processor) last year, Intel has consistently added power and
new functionality to the IXP family through new hardware and software
offerings. This session will address the most recent enhancements
to the IXP1200, new members of the IXP family and discuss some of
the directions that future IXP products will take. It will also address
key elements of Intel's Internet Exchange Architecture which provides
a framework for the full suite of Intel's communications silicon products.
5:25 pm
The Thirteenth Annual Microprocessor Report Awards
Don't miss
the one and only Nick Tredennick as he presents his annual roast of
the microprocessor industry.
Associated
Events
6:00 pm
MPF
Expo 2000: Literature & Demo Center
Tuesday,
October 10, 6:00 - 9:00 PM, Regency Room
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Set
aside the evening of Tuesday, October 10 to enjoy great food and drink,
the company of your peers, and demonstrations by 40 leading microprocessor
suppliers and vendors of related technologies.
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