Intel Developer Forum (IDF), now in its seventh year, is the premier event for thousands of hardware and software developers from nearly 50 countries seeking important technology insight and a competitive advantage. Attendees of IDF Fall 2003 will receive such essential information as the latest on Intel® Pentium® 4- and Intel® Itanium® 2-based platforms, the Intel® Internet Exchange Architecture, the Intel® Personal Internet Client Architecture and Intel's research and development labs.

Highlights of the U.S. IDF in September will include nearly 200 hours of lectures, sessions and labs; keynote speeches providing vision and technology direction from top Intel executives; an industry CTO panel; and a technology showcase participated by more than 110 companies. Participants will also learn about developments and initiatives from leading companies and industry groups covering such topical areas as Wi-Fi* and other wireless innovations, Hyper-Threading, PCI Express*, InfiniBand*, Gigabit Ethernet, Digital Home, security advances and mobile and modular platforms.

2003 theme: "Converging Technologies: Innovations in Communications and Computing."

Sept. 15-19 (IDF conference is Sept. 16-18)

This fall, IDF is expanding to a full week of industry events, headlined by a three-day technical conference expected to draw more than 4,000 industry technical decision makers from about 50 countries. Responding to attendee and sponsor feedback, and to allow attendees to maximize their access to the expanded programs throughout the week, the IDF technical conference will be held over three full days instead of the two full days and two half days as has been the practice in the past.

New programs during "IDF Week" this fall include the deep-dive technical software training of Intel's Software College, the hardcore hardware dialogue of the Intel Technology Symposium for advanced platform developers, a CTO panel discussion and additional non-disclosure, invitation-only events on future technology.

(Remaining global IDF fall cycle: Taipei, Oct. 13-14; Mumbai, India, Oct. 21-22; Moscow, Oct. 28-29; Shenzhen, China, Oct. 30-31.)