Intel Cancels Intel Developer Forum, Including IDF17

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In what amounts to a surely shocking bit of news for the PC hardware industry, Intel has announced it has cancelled IDF17, and terminated the Intel Developer Forum program altogether. Intel had previously announced there would not be an IDF in China this year, but now the cancellation appears to have gone global and permanent. From the horse's mouth, if one were to consider Intel a horse (would it be a fast one? My mind wanders):

"Intel has evolved its event portfolio and decided to retire the IDF program moving forward. Thank you for nearly 20 great years with the Intel Developer Forum! Intel has a number of resources available on intel.com, including a Resource and Design Center with documentation, software, and tools for designers, engineers, and developers. As always, our customers, partners, and developers should reach out to their Intel representative with questions."




IDF has typically been the home to Intel's major product announcements. Skylake, Kaby Lake, Optane, you name it in recent Intel tech: They were probably announced there. As such, the cancellation is giving everyone a serious case of data-vacuum, and many are wondering where to look for more information on product announcements in the future. Intel, for its part, claims to be moving into a more diversified direction than just "PC" and that motivated this decision. It claims other smaller and more targeted events will be the new source of information, and things like the recently held "AI Day" or "Manufacturing Day" will likely be used as a model for something to fill this void (A "PC Day" would not be too much of a leap of faith, one would assume).

How do you feel about this? Is this a harbinger of doom for the PC in general? A step in the right direction and towards the future? Something in-between? Let us know in the comments below!

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[xkm1948]

Wow, i hope this has nothing to do with AMD's RyZen and Napless launch.

 

[Xzibit]

Maybe they were going to bore us with 4c 200hz boosted processors

 

[R-T-B]

Maybe they were going to bore us with 4c 200hz boosted processors

They already did that. They need a more revolutionary boring idea, something that will bore us more than we've ever been bored...

Sorry, I had to.

 

[Prima.Vera]

It seems only the 9th generation will bring 6 Cores to the mainstream. MAYBE.... Until then 4 Cores FTY with max 15% increase in certain benches only.

 

[yogurt_21]

Intel was either tired of the costs, or worried about the storage/bandwidth on a new platform migration.

Either way this is likely a cost based decision. You will soon see them encourage developers to go use a new platform sponsored, paid for, and run by someone else.

 

[XiGMAKiD]

Will there any successor to IDF or they're just gonna rely on other event like E3 and CES?

 

[agent_x007]

My guess would be that Intel made a IP deal with AMD and AMD instead of $$$ wanted IDF gone.

I can be 100% wrong here, it's just a guess

 

[Xzibit]

My guess would be that Intel made a IP deal with AMD and AMD instead of $$$ wanted IDF gone.

I can be 100% wrong here, it's just a guess

For Intel 2016 was all about acquiring companies for AI automotive. Yogitech, Arynga, Itseez, Mobileye, BMW partnership and then a 250mil investment.

Introduced ADG (Automated Driving Group) which is probably where all the IDF resources are going. Original partnerships had 2020 and recently updated some to end of 2017-2018. Announced Intel Go with software and hardware from their Altera (ARM) acqusition.

Its heavily focusing on Auto and is thinning other departments like IoT and supporting structures to go along with the move.

 

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Will there any successor to IDF or they're just gonna rely on other event like E3 and CES?

They say they are moving to multiple smaller more targeted events, but nothing concrete yet.

It seems only the 9th generation will bring 6 Cores to the mainstream. MAYBE....

Us techies can dream. I can't afford another HEDT build so I really want 6 cores to drop down. That or it's Ryzen.

 

[john_]

Going from Tick-Tock to Tick-Tock-Tock-Tock-Tock, I guess makes it difficult to keep IDF interesting every year.

 

[bogami]

Well now they will definitely all together moved to Facebook. Rysen inflow has dried up Intel, a little more for a little less. That there were more disputes than development around who is .. and what. A few good tools you to download before it is into sales.

 

[medi01]

Wow, i hope this has nothing to do with AMD's RyZen and Napless launch.

I hope the opposite, market needs AMD to rebound.

 

[R-T-B]

Going from Tick-Tock to Tick-Tock-Tock-Tock-Tock, I guess makes it difficult to keep IDF interesting every year.

If this was a clock, I'd call it broken.

 

[Steevo]

I think Intel sees the proverbial writing on the wall, if AND can catch them using a twice as large node, and beat their power numbers, and match in a lot of work their performance numbers... mostly due to good design, but some from machine learning..... and if they have really incorporated this onto Vega....

Intel may very well be the underdog for the next generation.


All pure speculation of course, and perhaps it's more that Intel is confident in their next hardware revolution, whatever it may be, maybe it pulls away from X86-64... we could have another Itanium.

 

[R-T-B]

From what I'm hearing, actaully, this may be partially to sweep a few atom related issues under the rug.

That's of course an unverified claim, and I'll say that even if what leads I am hunting do lead somewhere and aren't a deadend, it's only part of the equation. But I am hearing some interesting things.

If you're really inquisitive and want to look into what I am investigating right now, look into the issues surrounding the Puma 6 chipset.

Article to come soon, hopefully.