Much more than most companies, Intel’s success depends on the technology that will arrive in its field years hence. As a result, the company has more than 1,000 researchers beavering away to gauge and develop that technology.

At its Intel Research Day at the Computer History Museum here, the company touted a wide range of projects that extend beyond the company’s core business of making computer processors. On display were projects to improve the WiMax regional wireless network technology, to improve mobile devices’ processing power while reducing their energy consumption, refine software to make larger-scale data storage faster, and transmit electrical power wirelessly within a modestly size room.

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