Silicon & Nanotechnology   Manufacturing including Sustainability   Enterprise Infrastructure & Services   Embedded Systems & Circuits   Assisted Living Technologies

Silicon & Nanotechnology	back to top

The Silicon and nanotechnology theme will focus on research and development for both the extension and expansion of Moore’s Law.

Research activities in this stream will focus on

• Nanoelectronics
1. 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),
2. novel metrology and analytical techniques for the nanoscale,
3. advanced memory concepts
4. 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)

Manufacturing including Sustainability	back to top

The Manufacturing & Sustainability theme will focus on research in the following areas:

• Factory cycle time reduction / manufacturing science
• Enhanced equipment utilization, OEE (overall equipment efficiency)
• Lean manufacturing
• Engineering Data Analysis/Data Mining & Visualization
• Virtual Metrology
• Advanced Process Control Systems
• Cost Reduction/Cost Competiveness
• Energy Efficiency in manufacturing and facilities – compressed air, energy from low grade heat, appropriate working environments (clean rooms) etc.

Enterprise Infrastructure & Services	back to top

The ongoing transformation of a product-oriented economy towards a service-oriented economy has come to a critical point. IT-supported service provisioning has become of major relevance in all industries and domains. However, the nature of these setups is typically quite static because it requires significant effort to create service offers, to negotiate provisioning details with customers and to manage and control provided services.

This session will present a concept on the further evolution towards a service-oriented economy, where IT-based services can be flexibly traded as economic good, i.e. under well defined and dependable conditions and with clearly associated costs. Eventually, this will allow for dynamic value networks that can be flexibly instantiated thus driving innovation and competitiveness.

Embedded Systems & Circuits	back to top

The Systems and Circuits theme will focus on research and development on the application of IA technologies (from Atom to advanced Multicore processors) to challenging compute intensive applications and the efficient embodiment of complex algorithms in either Silicon or closely coupled to the Intel processor core.

Research activities in this theme will focus on

• Multicore Processor Technologies
• The application of multicore architectures to real time ray tracing and visualisation.
• Robust pattern/feature recognition using vector machines
• Application of Stream Program techniques to multicore architectures.
• Software aspects related to reconfigurable architectures, enabling distributed OS support in dynamic heterogonous environments.
• Single Core Processor Technologies
• Efficient algorithms on Atom processors
• Efficient coupling of Atom with external programmable resources
• Math-On-Silicon
• Elliptic and Hyper-elliptic Curve Cryptography
• Smart Card Security Systems

Assisted Living Technologies	back to top

Intel’s Digital Healthcare division is focused on accelerating improvements in healthcare quality by understanding people's needs and delivering solutions that make it possible for them to enhance their health and wellness throughout their lives. We engage in a wide range of research targeted at finding innovative solutions to problems across the continuum of care. In Ireland we are focused closely on the development of assisted living technologies in collaboration with a number of Irish Universities through the TRIL Centre*. The TRIL Centre brings together world class ethnographic, clinical and technical researchers who are inventing and testing new technologies with older people and their families to support them in continuing to live independently. Key areas of technology research focus include:

1. Wireless sensors technologies including kinematic and physiological measurements
2. User Interface/Interaction design
3. Embedded systems design
4. Large scale remote device management
5. Biometric Digital Signal processing
6. Data Analytics, Data Visualization and Bioinformatics
7. Biomedical Engineering
8. Ethnography, clinical research and neuroscience