An extended IDF Trip

Our flight out of San Fran got delayed on Friday due to weather issues, thus forcing us to miss our connection. The airline offered us to fly later Friday night or leave another day, so we decided to leave on Sunday and spend the weekend with family in Walnut Creek. The weekend was a lot of fun, I got some work done but it was nice to bond with my new family outside of brief interactions at the wedding. Vinney and I both come from very large families, so the combining of the two means that I'm even more overwhelmed by the number of people and their relations than I was before. A much larger portion of Vinney's family is here in the states, whereas the vast majority of my family is still back in India/Iran or in other parts of the world.

IDF was quite refreshing for me for a couple of reasons:

1) Vinney was with me, it was the first IDF where I was truly happy and felt at home rather than feeling like I was busying myself to escape from home.

2) It actually got me excited about the industry moving forward, for the longest time I felt that we had been in a bit of a performance rut with no clear way out. Although the landscape will most definitely change going forward, the technology and the demand for performance will undoubtedly increase even greater than it has in the past. The period we're in now is much more of a transitional time, but the period we're heading towards is going to be an even bigger deal than the 3D revolution of the mid to late 1990s.

3) Intel was more open than I expected about their future projects, they still didn't disclose everything on the menu but they did a lot more than they have in years past. Intel definitely presented a side of the company that looked like they had their act together.

Now I don't believe Intel is going to make a return to the king of performance anytime soon, and I think AMD will continue to do extremely well and may hold on to the enthusiast approval for quite some time, but as for the direction that Intel is heading - I think it makes sense.

I'm playing catchup all day today, but once I get my schedule back in line I will give you all an update on what's coming down the pipe.

Take care.