Intel Developer Forum Spring 2003 - Day 1: New Concept PCs

Powersville Desktop Platform Concept

Another 2004 concept was the Powersville desktop platform, also shown off at the keynote. This particular platform employed a Bigwater form factor and is currently using an Intel 865 chipset, although that will probably change as the concept evolves and newer chipsets are made available.

The Powersville concept also includes support for dual displays, which leads us to believe that a future variant of Intel's integrated graphics cores may support multiple display outputs, a feature that's long overdue in our opinion.

Intel also introduced the idea of dual independent audio in the Powersville PC, where you can have two separate audio streams playing to two separate audio outputs on a single PC. We haven't seen much demand for this feature, but we'll be talking with Intel over the coming days to see what their thoughts are on potential uses for it.

Final Words

That finishes up our coverage of the first keynote of the Spring 2003 Intel Developer Forum, we're off to meet with AMD now but when we get back we'll have coverage up from the Technology Showcase at IDF - including some interesting information on Centrino and Serial ATA II. Stay tuned..