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- Research Focus Areas
Research Focus Areas
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Silicon & Nanotechnology | back to top |
Research activities in this stream will focus on
- Nanoelectronics
- Nanomaterials and processes for sub 10 nm technology and beyond (i.e. modelling, synthesis, characterisation, and integration; materials like nanowires, carbon based materials and III-Vs, and processes such as EUV, plasmas, etching, nano templating, directed and self assembly and nano photonics),
- novel metrology and analytical techniques for the nanoscale,
- advanced memory concepts
- novel charge and non-charge (‘beyond CMOS’) based nano-devices and architectures
- Converged technologies – integration of one or more functionalities on a single chip using CMOS infrastructure and associated technology (e.g. RF, MEMS, biochips)
Advanced Manufacturing Technology | back to top |
Manufacturing Science
- Factory and supply line modeling
- Factory cycle time reduction / manufacturing science
- Enhanced equipment utilization, OEE (overall equipment efficiency)
- Lean manufacturing
- Cost Reduction/Cost Competiveness
- Data Development, Analysis, Visualisation and Decision Making
- Developing and extracting data sources from complex manufacturing systems
- Advanced Engineering Data Analysis techniques for complex systems
- Sensor search selection and validation for machine interrogation
- Model Based problem solving and 6 Sigma
- Machine learning and Virtual Metrology,
- Predictive & advanced diagnostic systems for high volume production systems
- Advanced Process Control Systems,
- Predictive Maintenance Systems
Many Core and Architecture | back to top |
Topics of interest include:
- Resource management of many core processors for thermal, power and workload balancing including multi socket platforms
- Memory subsystem architectures to support massively parallel multi-threaded software on many core processors
- Interconnect technologies and NOC topologies for many core architectures
- Leveraging more and more heterogeneous architectures on die (such as accelerators, cores, integrated graphics, and peripherals) in System-on-Chip and MPSoC designs
- Techniques for tolerating resiliency levels for architecture building blocks in many core designs
Finally, virtualization offers an alternative approach to specialization by allowing multiple operating systems to run on a single device and abstracting from hardware specifics. With virtualization, porting of legacy applications onto new platforms is simplified and the security and stability of safety-critical code improved. At the same time an important benefit of virtualization is the deployment of a single execution environment across multiple installations. In our track we put a spotlight on the benefits of virtualization in a many core environment.
Social Participation and Digital Communities | back to top |
“The 10 million people in the UK who have never been online are already missing out on big consumer savings, access to information and education. They will be even more isolated and disadvantaged as government and industry expand ever faster into digital-only services. We must change our mindset from one that shields people from using the internet to one that helps empower them to get online and enjoy all the benefits.”
Martha Lane Fox, UK Digital Champion
Since 2009 the UK’s Race Online programme has set itself the task of creating a truly networked nation by the end of 2012. Already this figure has reduced to 8.71 million people or approximately 17.5% of the adult population. Of these, 5.7 million are over the age of 65 and it is estimated that moving online just two of the contacts a month this cohort has with government would save around £1 billion. On the other hand, the 4 million older people that do use the internet spend longer online that any other age group – an average of 42 hours per month.
Across the entire life-course however, new forms of community, ways of keeping in contact, and how we engage in work, learning and leisure are evolving rapidly with developments in smart phones, web 2.0, cloud computing, online social networking, mobile broadband, vast gaming universes etc. Content is becoming more visual and interactive and opportunities & forums for social participation are proliferating. Key themes for this track will include:
- How do we enable and support participation of digitally and socially excluded communities (both first world and emerging markets)
- What new forms of social participation (and sociality) are emerging as a result of modern technologies – new forums for expression, constant contact media, pop up communities, mobile migrants to name a few.
- Digital Ownership and Inheritance – What happens to our data when we die or decide to disconnect?
Enabling Sustainability through Technology From Micro to Macro: Enabling Sustainable Progress | back to top |
Despite recognition that the world is shifting from a resource based economy to a knowledge based economy, this shift seems to be accompanied by a steadily increasing consumption of resources. More than thirty years ago the Club of Rome published their report “The Limits to Growth” which through a computer simulation model predicted a significant economic or ecological crash in the 21st century. Arguably the global financial crisis could be interpreted as one of the first portends of such a scenario. The 1960’s work by EF Schumacher and others advocate a need to move away from an economy where natural resources are treated as an expense item and where these should be treated as capital.
This session will argue the need for leadership in the development and implementation of key building blocks that will enable the required shift to transform global society and move to a sustainable economy and environment. Specifically, we will focus on the important role ICT has to play and the challenges faced within the ‘enterprise’ and the wider ‘built environment’, in achieving sustainable/energy goals.
The sustainability track will feature leading speakers introducing new and novel approaches for how ICT can be used to move society collectively towards a new sustainable society and economy. The sessions will focus on Industrial Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy Integration and Personal Energy Management.
Embedded Intelligence | back to top |
Embedded markets like automotive, consumer, and communication are shaped through a combination of evolutionary improvements of existing technology and disruptive innovations. Device manufacturers and service providers must constantly challenge and improve the technology they apply and their business models to stay competitive in shifting and newly emerging markets, in which a rising number of embedded devices interact and communicate. In turn, the required interoperability standards and employed architectures must be adapted (or be adaptive enough) to support novel usage and service models – all while observing important constraints like energy efficiency, security, safety, and cost.
Within this specific ERIC 2011 track, Intel wants to reflect and consider trends, innovations, challenges and research activities under the following topics within “Embedded Intelligence” theme.
- Open Standards for Smart Connected Devices
- Embedded Industry as catalyst for other industry segments
- How to use existing IT building blocks for “Smart Connected Devices”
- Data security versus embedded intelligence
- Network infrastructures for “Smart Connected Devices”
- End-to-end Management of “Smart Connected Devices” scenarios
- Multicore Processors and Virtualization in the embedded and automobile industry
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