Intel at CES 2018: Brian Krzanich Keynote Live Blog (18:30 PT, 02:30 UTC)
by Ryan Smith & Ian Cutress on January 8, 2018 8:14 PM EST- Posted in
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08:26PM EST - Intel's annual CES keynote is upon us. This week they have already announced Intel with Radeon RX Vega M graphics and reiterated their commitment to PCs that are always connected. It will be interesting to see what information Intel is going to announce.
08:27PM EST - We're sitting here almost an hour early, Intel is putting together a pre-keynote show with dancers and drones.
08:35PM EST - Brian Krzanich is set to take to the stage for most/all of the event
08:36PM EST - We expect Intel to give its 2018 vision, discussing the new products (Intel with Radeon), the usual product areas (Automotive, FPGAs, Deep Learning, Drones, 5G) and emerging news
08:39PM EST - I suspect a section of the keynote will focus on security.
08:40PM EST - Almost every CPU company or CPU system company has said something about Meltdown/Spectre in their presentations this week
08:52PM EST - News on the wire is that Intel has created a new Internal Security Group internally, pulling in certain high-profile executives from other departments.
09:01PM EST - http://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/index.ssf/2018/01/intel_reorganizes_amid_fervor.html#incart_target2box_default_#incart_target2box_targeted_
09:22PM EST - 10 minutes ish to go. Starting with some pre-show entertainment using realsense
09:25PM EST - Now some drones flying up and down to hit notes on a keyboard on the ground
09:26PM EST - 'Experience The Power of Data'
09:27PM EST - Using Intel Movidius to use an 'air' drum kit. Using AI characters to play music
09:27PM EST - Using a piano to help direct the AI
09:32PM EST - Musicians in the future can use AI to help make music
09:33PM EST - Now tracking the movements of a dancer in 3D space using Intel sensors
09:33PM EST - Driving visual data in realtime
09:39PM EST - OK another couple of minutes until it starts
09:40PM EST - Here we go
09:40PM EST - Intro video about CES first
09:41PM EST - The tag line of CES this year is 'whoa'
09:41PM EST - President and CEO of CTA, Gary Shapiro, to the stage
09:41PM EST - Talking about inviting BK to the stage
09:43PM EST - 'Under BK's leadership, Intel has grown into emerging areas: VR, AI, Self-driving'
09:43PM EST - 'Driven by a single factor, the explosion of data'
09:43PM EST - Brian Krzanich to the stage
09:43PM EST - 'Our industry is about innovation'
09:44PM EST - Thanking the industry for coming to getting together about Meltdown/Spectre
09:44PM EST - 'Security is job number 1 for Intel and our industry'
09:44PM EST - 'No info that these exploits have been used to obtain customer data'
09:45PM EST - 'We recommend that users apply updates as soon as the vendor makes it available'
09:45PM EST - 90% of people covered within a week, the rest within the monht
09:45PM EST - some workloads will have a larger impact than otehrs
09:45PM EST - work with the industry to minimize the impact
09:45PM EST - When we come together, there are endless possibilities
09:46PM EST - Data is a resource
09:46PM EST - The driving force behind the technology revolution
09:46PM EST - Social and economic changes created by data that only happens once or twice a century
09:47PM EST - The story of Moore's Law has shaped every aspect of modern technology
09:47PM EST - Redefining how we experience life, work, school, sports, entertainment
09:47PM EST - Experiences that no-one has yet to imagine
09:48PM EST - Computing has become so powerful that we can now generate information capable of decision making
09:48PM EST - Almost everything tech generates data
09:48PM EST - Every email, picture, podcast, blog
09:48PM EST - All of it creates data
09:48PM EST - Today the cloud is filled with billions of bytes of data
09:48PM EST - Created a flood of data
09:49PM EST - By 2020 the average person will create 1.5 GB of data per day. 2x today
09:49PM EST - Autonomous car will generate 4TB per day
09:49PM EST - Connected aeroplane will do 40TB of data per day
09:49PM EST - Smart factory will do 1PB/day
09:49PM EST - Data has to be moved around at speed
09:50PM EST - Edge devices have to provide value
09:50PM EST - Data was formerly a static commodity
09:50PM EST - now it is the foundation of innovation
09:50PM EST - Today, AI and data is having a rush of breakthroughs
09:51PM EST - Robots, cars, art
09:51PM EST - Using data to create art
09:52PM EST - Using AI to advance the exploration of space, and data plays a critical role
09:52PM EST - Use powerful deep learning to complete surveys of planets and moons
09:52PM EST - Automate the creation of maps, used by autonomous rovers
09:52PM EST - In the future, crowd source the data
09:53PM EST - Every sector can reimagine data
09:53PM EST - showing technology that can impact the future
09:54PM EST - Experience: Immersive Media
09:54PM EST - One of the non-traditional roles of data is the creation of immersive media
09:54PM EST - advertising, education, medicine
09:54PM EST - Deliver the most realistic experiences possible
09:55PM EST - Creating and delivering the content is a massive data computing problem. We solve it at Intel
09:55PM EST - Blur the lines with volumetric video
09:56PM EST - Intel True VR
09:56PM EST - Transforming fan experiences at sports events
09:57PM EST - Output from cameras are stitched together in real time from multiple seats in the stadium
09:57PM EST - Intel True View
09:57PM EST - formerly Intel 3D
09:57PM EST - Uses dozens of 5K cameras around the viewing area
09:58PM EST - defines the area being mapped into voxels
09:58PM EST - Voxel = volumetric pixel
09:58PM EST - Moving from 2D to 3D
09:59PM EST - no longer recording a 2D image, you are recording a scene of voxels
09:59PM EST - get the user inside the space at any angle
10:00PM EST - Requires 3 TB per minute of data
10:00PM EST - Exploring immersive media
10:01PM EST - Introduced the world to an immersive way to see sports
10:01PM EST - Transporting the viewer to the experience
10:02PM EST - [video time]
10:03PM EST - Data will help to create context about the experience
10:03PM EST - No longer just passively watching
10:04PM EST - Intel is the official partner for the Olympic Winter Games in South Korea
10:04PM EST - All spectator moments become unforgettable experiences
10:04PM EST - Largest 5G demo at the olympic park
10:04PM EST - Broadcast live in VR
10:05PM EST - Fans don't just witness the moment, they experience it
10:05PM EST - Creating immersive content for viewers worldwide
10:07PM EST - Intel is the official VR experience partner provider for the Winter Olympics
10:07PM EST - 30 events live and on demand
10:07PM EST - Another video
10:10PM EST - Working with NBC Olympics
10:11PM EST - VR experiences at the Intel CES booth
10:11PM EST - Now eSports
10:11PM EST - fastest growing spectator sport in the world
10:11PM EST - Intel Core microarchitecture is the standard
10:11PM EST - Xeon processors convert the data to a single stream
10:11PM EST - A new standard for gaming
10:12PM EST - Standalone eSports with StarCraft 2 leading up to the olympic games
10:12PM EST - Announcing partner with Ferrari NA to bring VR to the Ferrari Race Challenge racing series
10:13PM EST - Object detection and recognition to see the race unfold
10:13PM EST - 30 minutes of video creates 4TB of data per camera. Uses Xeon to detect objects, transcode, and stream
10:13PM EST - Using AI to help drivers hone their skills
10:14PM EST - Data + Sports
10:15PM EST - On-stage example about watching sports with multiple streams
10:15PM EST - Watching the NFL
10:15PM EST - Data outside the VR heatset needs to be recorded as well
10:16PM EST - Using fantasy football data inside the same stream
10:16PM EST - 360-degree highlight videos
10:17PM EST - Using technology like Intel True View to appreciate athleticism
10:18PM EST - Using volumetric video to be the player on the field
10:18PM EST - 'Watching sports will never be the same again'
10:19PM EST - Tono Romo to the stage
10:19PM EST - (yes that one)
10:20PM EST - 'The first time you use True View blows you away'
10:20PM EST - 'Revolutionary'
10:21PM EST - Allows the viewer to see how super-atheticism is done
10:22PM EST - No-one else is compressing data, processing data, and broadcasting. It's pretty unique
10:22PM EST - Being the player makes it special
10:23PM EST - Now Intel Studios
10:23PM EST - 'Broadening the immersive media experience'
10:23PM EST - changing the way we think about filming and content creation
10:23PM EST - 'the future of media'
10:24PM EST - another video
10:24PM EST - 'Motion pictures has only seen a few technologies that can be seen as truly transformational'
10:25PM EST - Volumetric Video capture facility
10:26PM EST - Creating more immersive and interactive experiences
10:26PM EST - Finished the studio back in fall
10:26PM EST - Comparing the 2D and volumetric view
10:26PM EST - A western
10:27PM EST - Using 100 cameras
10:27PM EST - Now the same scene in volumetric view
10:27PM EST - petabytes of data
10:28PM EST - Impressive, but looks rough around the edges
10:28PM EST - Still a work in progress
10:29PM EST - Shot the scene only once, have all the data. Can recreate the scene from any point of view
10:29PM EST - Be the actor too
10:29PM EST - Have the view from the horse
10:30PM EST - Do the scene, look at it from any perspective
10:30PM EST - There's going to be non-traditional perspectives
10:30PM EST - A new standard of entertainment and technology
10:30PM EST - Announcing an exploratory partnership with Paramount Pictures
10:31PM EST - The future is really bright with features like volumetric filming
10:32PM EST - Advances in cinema have been about seeking new frontiers
10:32PM EST - Virtual and augmented reality is the next level in cinematography
10:33PM EST - Closer to reality than ever before
10:33PM EST - When you give filmmakers tools like this, their imagination is endless
10:33PM EST - Taking advantage of the tools to put audiences in the movie experience
10:34PM EST - Merging the real world with the virtual world
10:34PM EST - It extends to television, advertising, gaming
10:34PM EST - Immersive will be the new normal
10:35PM EST - Experiences with Sansar
10:35PM EST - first on Second Life, worked with Linden Labs
10:35PM EST - Using Intel WiGig for wireless HTC Vive VR
10:36PM EST - Mixing Second Life and VR - created the Intel CES booth in Sansar
10:36PM EST - Visit booths virtually
10:36PM EST - Live, social VR experience
10:37PM EST - Booth staff available to answer questions
10:37PM EST - Interactive demos
10:39PM EST - VR recreation of an original set of a film
10:40PM EST - `Built with imagination'
10:40PM EST - Thinking about the future of computing
10:40PM EST - A preview of where computing will go next
10:40PM EST - The rise of neuromorphic computing
10:40PM EST - Prototype chip, Lolihi
10:41PM EST - Neuromorphic uses the brain as a map, connecting neurons in a chip
10:41PM EST - Simulate the brain in silicon
10:41PM EST - Embedding the intelligence into silicon where it needs it
10:42PM EST - Filling out the extent of machine learning
10:42PM EST - Changes the connectivity of neurons
10:42PM EST - Online, at the edge, and low power
10:42PM EST - It's a hard problem, but Intel's scale and expertise can make a difference
10:43PM EST - *Loihi
10:43PM EST - >Looks like LGA115x
10:43PM EST - Have a fully functioning chip in the lab
10:43PM EST - After a few weeks, making simple object recognition
10:44PM EST - Quantum computing
10:44PM EST - Massively parallel that beat supercomputers easily
10:45PM EST - Modelling chemical interactions - with quantum computing, this process is drastically accelerated
10:45PM EST - Pushing the boundaries of quantum computing
10:45PM EST - Building full quantum computing systems
10:45PM EST - Showing the next step: a 49 qubit quantum chip
10:45PM EST - Pushes beyond the ability to simulate
10:46PM EST - Biggest impact in material science
10:47PM EST - Next step is where technology impacts society for the better
10:47PM EST - Intel committed to only conflict free materials in all processors four years ago
10:47PM EST - Now every Intel product is labelled conflict free
10:48PM EST - $300m over 5 years invested into Intel's workplace about diversity
10:48PM EST - Will reach full representation by the end of 2018
10:48PM EST - Continue to publish data on a regular cadence
10:49PM EST - Now safety and transportation
10:49PM EST - Data from autonomous cars
10:49PM EST - Studies estimate that 1.25 million lives could be saved
10:50PM EST - Or 157 hrous of commute time annually, and $150b in fuel costs for US
10:50PM EST - A platform to make autonomous cars a reality
10:50PM EST - It's about the technology and the safety
10:50PM EST - Co-founder of Mobileye to the stage
10:51PM EST - Car on stage
10:51PM EST - Announcing one of a 100 fleet of autonomous cars
10:52PM EST - 12 cameras, cocoon of lasers, radars, lidars. Using mobileye chips and Atom chips
10:53PM EST - Radars and lidars for redundancy
10:53PM EST - Building trust between consumers and vehicles
10:53PM EST - Sensing, Mapping, Driving Policy, Regulation
10:53PM EST - 24M mobileye based driver assist vehicles
10:54PM EST - 9m in 2017
10:54PM EST - 30 design wins with 27 car makers
10:54PM EST - 15 production programs in 2018
10:54PM EST - an architecture of computing that processes the raw sensor signals
10:55PM EST - advanced driving policy software with reinforcement learning software
10:55PM EST - high definition maps so nothing of value is missed by the system
10:55PM EST - rapid development - chips and software
10:55PM EST - EYEQ5 and Intel Atom
10:56PM EST - 24 TOPS at 10W for EYEQ5
10:56PM EST - Different cores for different workloads
10:56PM EST - Every watt helps
10:56PM EST - Level 4 Partners with SAIC Motor, the largest car maker in China
10:57PM EST - Creating high definition location maps is data intensive. Crowd sourcing is the only way
10:57PM EST - 10KB per km
10:58PM EST - Send over wireless
10:58PM EST - 'Road Experience Management' - REM
10:58PM EST - Accuracy to cm
10:59PM EST - Cars from VW, BMW, Nissan will be REM enabled in 2018
10:59PM EST - Formulating common sense to make driving policy
11:00PM EST - BK will be inviting press to take a trip in the latest autonomous car
11:01PM EST - Now using flying cars to reimaging data - autonomous air taxi
11:01PM EST - closer than you think
11:01PM EST - Technology already exists today
11:02PM EST - >Now watching a video of BK in an air taxi about 4 ft off the ground.
11:03PM EST - CEO of Volocopter to the stage
11:05PM EST - First autonomous taxi flight in Dubai
11:05PM EST - Will soon offer it as a service in major cities around the world (pending approval)
11:05PM EST - 'Who wouldn't like to fly across a city'
11:06PM EST - To fly at this scale, need batteries with super high energy density
11:06PM EST - Volocopter on stage
11:07PM EST - Behind a lot of shielding
11:07PM EST - going to fly
11:08PM EST - On display at LVCC
11:09PM EST - Now more technology
11:09PM EST - 'We see a future where technology makes the world a better place'
11:09PM EST - Technology is enabled by data
11:10PM EST - can also be small devices - a new drone
11:10PM EST - The Shooting Star Mini
11:10PM EST - New hardware design
11:10PM EST - Fully automatable
11:10PM EST - 100 drones by one pilot
11:11PM EST - Cue the Black Mirror moment as 100 drones take to the stage
11:14PM EST - A drone laser show, making shapes and things with flashing LEDs
11:14PM EST - 100 mini drones actually makes a lot of fan noise
11:14PM EST - even with a pounding bass line
11:15PM EST - Worlds first 100-drone indoor flight show without GPS
11:16PM EST - Bellagio Fountain drone show this week
11:16PM EST - That's a wrap. Nothing mentioned about 10nm...?
11:16PM EST - .
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surt - Sunday, January 14, 2018 - link
For all that your other comments may have value, 'immediately' typically means within a one-hour window for publication. There is almost no possibility of meeting such a deadline, which is why you see it everywhere in the news. It is meaningless that Intel 'did not comment' in this context.Bullwinkle-J-Moose - Monday, January 8, 2018 - link
"09:48PM EST - Today the cloud is filled with billions of bytes of data"--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
WOW, that's like almost as much as a thumbdrive
Who'da thunk it?
CajunArson - Monday, January 8, 2018 - link
So if Krzanich has to define voxels for the audience then I'm massively unimpressed with the knowledge level of the CES audience.Fun factoid: Voxels were being used in the 1990's for deformable terrain in games. Oh, and they were old back then too.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/209/5
plopke - Monday, January 8, 2018 - link
what am I all reading , lot of marketing talk ,silly numbers , those silly topics of how much data people will create,..... then the usual marketing checkboxes VR,esports , ......Is it so wrong not to have a show if you have nothing to tell?
Bullwinkle-J-Moose - Monday, January 8, 2018 - link
Don't have a MeltdownIt's all about diversion and redirection....
That's the plan!
Bullwinkle-J-Moose - Monday, January 8, 2018 - link
Oh, it's right here on the schedule >Misdirection and Obfuscation with Brian Krzanich
Hifihedgehog - Wednesday, January 10, 2018 - link
"with Brian Krzanich"Frankly, the company would be better off WITHOUT him. He is a boring CEO, to be quite frank. And I am not referring to being lively or having a stage presence (e.g. Steve Ballmer, whom, though great meme material, I also dislike). Investors and employees don't care about that. He just does not strike me as the analytical type or passionate about his product. Lisa Su is far more fascinating and enlightening CEO who clearly is immersed in both book balancing and the deeply technical. I just fall asleep whenever he enters the stage.
Bullwinkle-J-Moose - Monday, January 8, 2018 - link
10:49PM EST - Studies estimate that 1.25 million lives could be saved10:50PM EST - It's about the technology and the safety
10:50PM EST - A platform to make autonomous cars a reality
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So, when the bridge fails, the cars continue on their GPS journey like lemmings off a cliff?
So, when the car stops at a red light and you are surrounded by armed terrorist, the car will refuse to move until the light turns green?
So, when.....
Are you even listening?
Is this thing on?
Hello, Hello?
Bullwinkle-J-Moose - Monday, January 8, 2018 - link
I see a comedy movie in your future!Or is it just the nightly news?
Bullwinkle-J-Moose - Monday, January 8, 2018 - link
11:05PM EST - 'Who wouldn't like to fly across a city'----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ooooh, Pick Me, Pick ME!