Inside IBM

Tech Guru had a one-on-one with Dr. Ponani Gopalakrishnan, VP - India Software Labs to find out what’s cooking at IBM.

Question : Tell us about IBM’s smarter planet initiative with a few examples of the technology used.

Answer : Let me give you a background first. Today we’re at an intersection point. Device level instrumentation as well as system level instrumentation – things like RFID (Radio-frequency Identification) tags as well as sensors – are everywhere. Even your cell phone is a sensor, with the help of which your location can be triangulated. As these systems are getting interconnected, the reach of the information network has become broader. This is what we believe is helping us build a smarter planet, where things are a lot more instrumented, interconnected, and intelligent. An example is Singapore, where we can predict traffic conditions, thanks to RFID tags that are put in place in cars. The same RFID tags can help you track movement of your goods through the supply chain.

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Inside NVIDIA & Tegra

We met up with Jen-Hsun Huang, Co-founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of NVIDIA and got him to talk about Tegra and computers in general. Excerpts…

Question : How long did it take to develop Tegra and how much of Tegra was developed in India? How much did NVIDIA spend on its development?

Answer : Tegra took us 5 years to develop. We wanted to create a computing platform that has as good a mobile experience and better a multimedia experience than existing PCs, at 1/50th the power. It cost us half a billion dollars to develop. We have 3 design centers Pune, Bangalore and Hyderabad. Hyderabad’s entire design center is working on Tegra, and a lot of the work on Tegra has been done there, chip design, algorithm development and software. The Pune center has also done some work on Tegra.

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