Intel discusses vision for wireless future

"In the future, if it computes, it connects," said Rattner. "From the simplest embedded sensors to the most advanced cloud datacentres, we're looking at techniques to allow all of them to connect without wires." Rattner demonstrated what he claimed was the first all digital WiFi radio, designed to follow Moore's Law by scaling in area and energy efficiency with digital chip processes such as Intel's 22nm tri gate technology. A next generation wireless standard called WiGig was also unveiled, which aims to consolidate a number of proprietary 60GHz wireless technologies under the existing WiFi standard. It operates in the millimetre wavelengths of the radio spectrum and is said to deliver bandwidths over 5Gbit/s. "WiGig is so fast it will let you wirelessly dock your enabled Ultrabook, tablet or smartphone without wires," said Rattner. "Even multiple displays can be docked at one time." The company also announced a new biometric identification technique which could eliminate passwords and make access to cloud based services more secure, as well as new collaborations with Verizon, China Mobile and Cisco.