As Intel approaches its fortieth birthday, its most publicly visionary technologist, Pat Gelsinger, took the stage to make broad predictions about the future for the company and the chip industry. Gelsinger has been fairly quiet in the past two years, but during his spell earlier in the decade as Intel’s chief technology officer, he was highly vocal, and set out a roadmap for the chip giant’s necessary move beyond computers and into wireless and ubiquitous access. While he returned to many of his familiar themes at the briefing in San Francisco last week, some of his messages had been changed or subdued by the passing years, and comparison with speeches made around 2004 only emphasized that, so far at least,…