Intel backs away from some public appearances overseas

One of the casualties of Intel scaling back its costs is a reduction in its public appearances, particularly overseas. Perhaps second only to the company's annual Developers' Forum in the US (which remains scheduled for September 22 in San Francisco) is its annual appearance in Taiwan, which is closer to the motherboard manufacturers upon which Intel relies. Now that event -- originally scheduled for next November -- has been cancelled, as Taiwan's leading industry daily DigiTimes was first to report, and Intel's IDF Web site also shows that its Beijing conference scheduled for April 8 has been trimmed back by one day.

Last October in Taipei, Intel introduced its Capella power-saving architecture for its Nehalem generation 45 nm processors, along with some new advancements in the Atom processor that's powering more and more netbooks. Conceivably, though, any new milestones in Intel's roadmap may still be announced in San Francisco in September.