Update: Hands-on video, specs and image set now posted here. Developing: Asus announced the T100 Baytrail Transformer at the IDF day 2 keynote. It’s based on Baytrail.

Today at IDF 2013 in San Francisco, Intel is announcing it’s next-generation of low-power Atom, Pentium, and Celeron processors, codenamed ‘Bay Trail’. Intel says that Bay Trail processors will be suitable for tablets, laptops, AIO desktops, and “sleek mobile devices.”

We’re expecting Baytrail products to show this morning. We’ll hear about Ultrabooks and we’ll hear about Windows and Android mobility. This article will update with relevant pics and information as the keynote progresses. (Start at 0900 San Francisco time) 0900: starting. I think we just heard a new ‘bong bong bong bong’ First up is  Doug Fisher who sets the stage.   Hermann Eul will now go into details….     Smartphones….we want more. “It all starts with great CPU” The Silvermont Core…. “Spans an Ultra Dynamic Range”     […]

  The T440s is a business Ultrabook that offers some unique features. The 1920×1080 matt screen with touch is rare, as is the hot-swap battery feature. A 24Wh battery lives in the unit and there’s a selection of 24Wh, 47Wh and 72Wh battery packs that can be added to that. With Haswell and the extended battery you’ve got some very impressive battery life in a 2KG package.

Brian Krzanich is on stage… “Silicon leadership.” “Lead in every segment of computing.” First area…re-architecting the data center. Then… Fanless Y-Series Haswell laptop from HP… 14nm Broadwell coming. Products in 2014. First Broadwell laptop. (Based on Harris Beach design.)   2-in-1’s as low ass $400. “This is where the PC is heading.” Lenovo Miix 8 is on stage… First 22nm phone…   Internet of things…   Quark series of SoC’s announced. 1.5th size. 1/10th power. Synthesizable…(with 3rd party IP)     Intel working on wearables.     Rene James on […]

The Acer W510, a nice Clovertrail-based Windows tablet has what I call ‘bearable’ Windows performance. AMD Temash, the quad-core platform for low-cost notebooks has what I call ‘good mainstream’ performance. It looks  like BayTrail’s CPU performance will go up to 3X that of the Clovertrail platform and equal that of AMD Temash quad-core. At IDF, which started for me today, we’ll hear a lot more about BayTrail and we expect to see device launches in the next 24-48hours.

I’ve been using the Mobile Reporting Kit V12 over the last 5 days and it’s been working well. The challenge was to work through a day without any cables. No charging! The Harris Beach Ultrabook, Nokia Lumia 925 plus a  backup phone (Nokia 808) and a camera (Lumix FZ150) worked together to give me my best mobile media studio yet.  

I just saw a presentation by Intel on the future of batteries, energy and small devices and I didn’t realize the research had got this far. We can now harvest mW of energy from the area on and around a small device. It doesn’t sound a lot but look at functions like NFC which use micro-Watts of power. Battery technology isn’t advancing quickly. It’s because the chemistry is tough and expensive or profit margins are at risk or even that it’s simply shackled by political control. Ambient energy could be […]