IDF 2016: Powerful chips, robot brains, and super-fast data lasers

A diversified future of computingThe Intel of today isn’t the Intel you know, and that truth was hammered home at the annual Intel Developers Forum in San Francisco this week.Sure, Intel’s still the most prodigious PC chip maker in the world—by far—but its focus hasshifted away from computersalone to embrace the idea of bringing smarts to all sorts of devices. While the IDFs of yesteryear leaned heavily on PC processors and new tech designed to make computers more potent,