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Intel is researching and developing new chip technologies in an effort to self-fulfill its prediction that the cloud will support as many as 15 billion intelligent devices by 2015, a company officials said.
Intel Architecture Group VP Kirk Skaugen on Wednesday told a keynote audience at the Interop technology conference in Las Vegas that the company expects the global economy to be fully wired within the next five years. “It’s aspirational enough, but it’s not far enough out that we can’t see a path,” said Skaugen.
“If it runs on electricity, it will compute, and if it computes it will be connected to the Internet,” said Skaugen. He also predicted that virtually the entire population of the planet would be touched in some way by the cloud in the next half decade—whether they be direct users or just ordinary citizens who benefit from products or research that wouldn’t be possible without the low-cost, high-scalability cloud model.