Open Source at Intel: Building with the Ecosystem

You need more than great hardware to deliver exceptional user experiences. A platform—a collection of ingredients, spanning industry-leading hardware, software, and development tools, all specifically tuned to integrate seamlessly and deliver optimum performance—helps you develop and deliver competitive solutions and services to your customers, more quickly and easily. Intel continues to drive the pace of innovation, offering platforms and technologies that enable new usage models, classes of devices, and services that help inspire fresh approaches to software design.

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From the very start, Intel has challenged the status quo. Each new generation of Intel® processors offers amazing functionality, performance and energy efficiency, unleashing creativity across the ecosystem and unlocking new possibilities for people around the world.

	Intel® Atom™ Processor With an exceptional processing-power-to-energy-use ratio, the Intel Atom processor suits small form-factor computing devices, including netbooks, smartphones, and tablets. Capabilities of the MeeGo, Android, and Windows* operating systems are best-in-class. Learn more			Intel® Xeon® Processors Intel Xeon processors deliver exceptional performance, scalability, security and RAS features for today’s data center environments. Intel’s extensive contributions to open-source projects and collaboration with open-source ecosystem partners provide optimized support for these processors. Intel® Xeon® Processor E7 Family Intel® Xeon® Processor 5000 Sequence Intel® Xeon® Processor E3 Family

	Intel® Core® Processor The latest Intel Core processor technologies bring intelligent performance to your desktop PC through adaptive performance and built-in visual capabilities. Desktops powered by the 2nd generation Intel® Core™ processor family let you see and do more with visibly smart performance. Intel® Core™ i3 Processor Intel® Core™ i5 Processor Intel® Core™ i7 Processor Intel® Core™ i7 Extreme Processor Intel® Core™ vPro™ Processors

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Intel platform technologies help reshape the computing experience by offering new capabilities ready to be put to use by developers and inspiring innovative design. Rich opportunities abound to take advantage of next-generation technologies using open-source components running on the Linux* operating system.

	Intel® Multi-Core Technology With a broad slate of multi-core processors available today and many-core processors in the design pipeline, Intel continues to set the pace in the industry for high-performance, multi-threaded computing. Learn more			Intel® Core™ Microarchitecture Intel leads the industry in the design, manufacturing, and delivery of small, highly efficient, high-performing processor cores. Microarchitecture development for 22nm technologies is well underway, which will expand the options for compact computing devices with long battery lives. Learn more

	Intel® vPro™ Technology By incorporating security and manageability into hardware, Intel vPro technology enhances management of desktops and laptops, and protects data against loss. This technology offers features that can provide a significant competitive edge in software applications that use it. Learn more			Intel® Active Management Technology Embedded in Intel-based platforms, this technology enhances the ability of IT organizations to effectively manage enterprise computing facilities, onsite or remotely. ISVs can build applications that take advantage of the features of Intel AMT using the application programming interface (API). Learn more

	Intel® I/O Acceleration Technology Designed to increase throughput in demanding network applications, this technology dynamically scales to accommodate rising network traffic and addresses data-flow bottlenecks. Overall platform performance can be increased significantly. Learn more			Intel® Virtualization Technology Virtualization of systems based on Intel architecture is strongly supported with open-source components. As a result, IT groups gain efficiency and simplified maintenance in a highly cost-effective manner. Learn more

	Intel® Trusted Execution Technology Using this technology, systems can execute code inside protected hardware partitions, isolating sensitive data from other operations taking place on the same system. The result is a level of functionality that can help differentiate an open-source application in the enterprise space. Learn more

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Intel makes every effort to support developers working with Intel-based platforms through each stage of the development process—from product roadmaps through development resources to co-marketing opportunities. The goal is to make every step in the development process well supported, easy, and efficient, so that end-customers have access to a diversity of innovative solutions.

	Business Planning Resources Support for each Intel-based hardware platform starts with product roadmaps, available to Intel® Software Partner Program members. Intel® Software Partner Program			Software Development Resources Support continues throughout the development process with software development tools, expert forums, engineering guidance, and training resources. Learn more about Tools & Resources

	Marketing & Sales Resources Support extends to post-release co-marketing opportunities that can help developers reach new customers and enter new market sectors. Intel® Software Partner Program

What's New in Open Source

The Architecture of Open Source Applications, Volume II - The Yocto Project* Chapter

Intel/Red Hat Webinar: Scalable Storage for the Future

New Compute Options for Supply Chain Management

Running Mission-Critical EMR Applications on Linux* and Intel® Architecture

The Yocto Project: New Possibilities for Intelligent Embedded Systems?

Learn about an OpenStack proof-of-concept

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Computex Taipei
Jun 5 - Jun 9, 2012

3rd Annual LinuxCon Japan
Jun 6 - Jun 8, 2012

Hadoop Summit
Jun 13 - Jun 14, 2012

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