Future Direction

Future Direction

SBS-IF Future Directions, Francis Truntzer,Intel
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SBS Implementers Forum
- State of the Industry and Future Course -
Keynote
By Francis Truntzer, Intel Corp

SBS-IF Future Directions, Francis Truntzer,Intel
6%6 ,) 'HY&RQ -DSDQ 
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Agenda
•SBS Specs, looking back
•SBS-IF Future Organizational Changes

SBS-IF Future Directions, Francis Truntzer,Intel
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All products, plans and dates are preliminary and subject to change without any notice.
History of the SBS Specs
• 4/94: Intel/Duracell Announcement
• 2/95: SMBus, SBD v1.0 release
• 6/96: Charger spec v1.0 release
• 9/96: Selector spec v1.0 release
• 10/96: SBS Core Group Created
• 10 Companies co-own the specs
• 1/97: SBS support in ACPI spec
• 4/97: SBS Implementer Forum (SBS-IF) Created
• 51 members as of 11/98
• 12/98: v1.1 spec release

SBS-IF Future Directions, Francis Truntzer,Intel
6%6 ,) 'HY&RQ -DSDQ  Most New Industry Specs
Require Significant Efforts
Draft Announcement Industry Feedback
Spec Release Evangelism
OS Support Compatibility events Spec Maintenance
Tools development
USB, SBS, 1394 took 4+ years

SBS-IF Future Directions, Francis Truntzer,Intel
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Industry-wide specifications have enabled
significant cost reductions and market growth
SBS Specs Acceptance is Good
• Systems shipping with smart batteries
• Acer
• Compaq
• Dell
• Fujitsu
• Gateway
• Hitachi
• IBM
• NEC
• Sony
• Battery vendors
• All are supplying custom size SBS packs
• Several are supplying standard packs
9 out the top 10
notebook OEMs have
adopted the SBS specs

SBS-IF Future Directions, Francis Truntzer,Intel
6%6 ,) 'HY&RQ -DSDQ 
Thank you to all the active members
SBS-IF Accomplishments To Date
• 8 PlugFests :
• Burlingame, Santa Clara, Monterey, Hawaii, Napa, Tokyo
• Power’94,’95,’96,’97,’98
• SBS courses...

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