High tech chopper and performance boosts from Intel

Much of the hoopla and attention at Intel's booth at NXTcomm focused on the custom Orange County chopper. Intel contracted OCC to design a bike to showcase their embedded technology by integrating features of a laptop into the bike including GPS, infotainment, and wireless (build airs July 17th and 19th on TLC).

Located behind the backdrop for this new chopper was Intel's media room where I met with Cavium's president and CEO Syed Ali, their Vice President Rajiv Khemani, and Doug Davis, VP, Digital Enterprise Group at Intel. The four of us discussed their new collaboration targeted at security and application-oriented appliances and AdvancedTCA systems. Good news for OEMS and ODM vendors like RadiSys, Cisco, Lanner, and others currently using both Cavium's OCTEON and NITROX processors along with Intel processors in their appliance and AdvancedTCA platforms. In the future, these customers may no longer have to spend the resources to develop custom software or the time to optimize hardware interfaces as they do on their platforms today. With Intel and Cavium ensuring seamless interoperability between the Intel processors and Cavium's Octeon and Nitrox processors, the time savings may be as great as six to nine months and increases in performance two to three fold.

Perhaps they'll show up in Intel's next chopper.