Intel has announced its next generation chipset Santa Rosa at its Developer Forum, along with a number of wireless technologies.

Along with Santa Rosa, Intel fleshed out plans for its Napa update later this year, particularly the new processors Conroe (desktop), Merom (mobile) and Woodcrest (server). The company also showed off its Robson Nand flash technology which enables faster boot times and demoed Wimax in the US for the very first time.

Much of the technology it pushed ties in with its home entertainment platform Viiv, which it also pushed heavily today.

That demo came close to disaster at one point when a bullish technology claim refused to work. Intel said it had produced the first buttonless remote control, which works by voice command.

But in trying to get it to work with a Viiv Media Center PC, it doggedly ignored his pleading commands of 'what time is Family Guy' three times before working for a relieved Don Macdonald, who is charge of the Viiv push.

What it did prove though, is that an otherwise sane man looks a bit of a fool talking into remote control, however advanced the technology, so we can't see it catching on any time soon.

We've gone into far more detail about the latest Santa Rosa announcements today in our news coverage, plus produced an image gallery of the key slides and moments from the presentations.