Justin Rattner Quotations

Now we're looking at power in the rest of the platform. The CPU is in relatively good shape.

People will see systems that can be faster, smaller and quieter with longer battery life and lower electric bills.

Later this year it will fuel new dual core processors and quad core processors in 2007 that we expect to deliver industry leading performance and capabilities per watt. People will see systems that can be faster, smaller and quieter with longer battery life and lower electric bills.

We really need to get to a point where the systems support the users, rather than users supporting the systems.

We're at least a year ahead of the competition in 65nm.

We are really focused on minimizing energy per instruction. That's the new mantra.

We are going to see a whole generation of much more user-friendly systems which are more attractive for use in the home.

As I look at Intel's product lineup versus AMD, it's clear that Intel is weakest in servers and strongest in notebooks. So from that standpoint I can see why Intel would want to create an impression that says they are closing that gap. It's kind of like how many angels can you fit on the head of a pin?

We need to design our systems to fit within this set of thermal envelopes.

Variability increases as geometries shrink. Leakage power varies five to 10 times. Frequency varies about 30 percent.

Even though we've been under competitive pressure, and you might think we've lost a certain enthusiasm for what we're doing, that's far from the truth.

A user-aware platform will be any device that can take care of itself, knows who we are, where we are, and tries to anticipate what we want done. They will need digital senses to be aware of their surroundings and what they are doing. They will also need new levels of intelligence to understand our needs and collaborate with other electronics to take action on our behalf while doing no harm in the process.

Energy is on everyone's mind. It's a critical concern of every platform we deal with.

Once in a generation an opportunity like this comes along to bring dramatically improved computing benefits to millions of people.

Beginning with the Pentium in 1993 and the Pentium 4 today, every increase in performance has brought a corresponding increase in energy used. We found a way out. Today we're at the dawn of a new age of energy-efficient processing.

It's kind of like how many angels can you fit on the head of a pin?

It's going to take a significant investment on the industrial side, not the government side but the industrial side, in China to begin to approach what it takes to be competitive worldwide.

This is a very significant challenge. The challenge is how do you feed the beast.

I don't think consumers will do climate modeling, although given the way the climate is going, that may become a very popular thing to do in the future.