How Intel is upgrading all of themselves and their products

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Pat Gelsinger delivered a keynote speech on October 20, 2018, followed by a brief summary of the future global economy for reporters and analysts. Intel Innovation 22 Conference here today.

“Silicon is the most important ingredient for the future of mankind,” Intel’s CEO said. “For the past 50 years, oil reserves have defined geopolitics, but for the next 50 years, fabs and his chain of tech supply will be more important. Let’s build them where they are needed. Let’s think.”

That may sound a little selfish, but there is more than a sliver of truth in the statement. is becoming Technology powered by silicon-based data processors promises to provide the muscles needed to get things done for humans on an ever-greater scale. I’ve been doing it for decades.

With nearly 1,000 attendees and thousands online, the event concludes on September 28 at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center. It was full of news about the venerable company’s IT hardware, software, partnerships, use cases, future plans, and product roadmaps.

The main points are:

• Intel introduced the latest high-end CPU, 13th generation Core i9 processor for the gaming and content creator market. They are available with up to 24 cores (8 P cores, 16 E cores) and 32 threads, and single-threaded performance up to 5.8 GHz. In other words, as with all tech conferences, manufacturers say faster, stronger, and better.

• The company is doing everything in its power to attract developers of all kinds who may not have worked in hardware before. Make new and future hardware platforms, such as 4th Gen Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids) and Intel Data Center GPUs, readily available for pre-launch development and testing with the revamped Developer Cloud.

• new Intel Geti Platform, makes it easier for companies to develop and deploy computer vision AI. Gelsinger said he expects Intel to roll out his AI capabilities across the company’s large product line in the future.

• Intel now acts as a system foundry., wafer fabrication, packaging, software and chiplet ecosystem combined in a never before attempted hardware workflow. The company operates 15 fabs and is building new facilities in Ohio, Arizona, Germany, and more.

• The company previewed future high-capacity system-in-package capabilities This enables pluggable copackage photonics for a variety of applications. There is research and development going on in Scotland to convert codes into rays. The company showed a live demo of the process at the conference.

Intel’s commitment to GPUs

Intel is the global market leader in the burgeoning graphics processing unit (GPU) space, as Gelsinger promised investors and customers when he took over the CEO role from Bob Swan in February 2021. It is gaining momentum to challenge a certain Nvidia. The company has revealed several milestones in its data center GPU lineup, along with the pricing and availability of its first Arc GPUs for gaming.

Gelsinger describes the near future of GPUs at Intel: Keynote speech. “I paused when I left Intel because I hadn’t completed No. 10. It was Discrete Graphics and Throughput Architecture. When I come back, I will finish it.”

“We now have all product categories: integrated graphics, discrete graphics, GPUs, and HPC. All of these products will ship before the end of the year. We are doing our best.” That community individual graphic is important for ISV engagement.

“There are only three types of semiconductor companies: either big, niche, or dead. We have to be big.”

However, Intel has some work to do in this area. Nvidia currently owns 80% of the entire GPU market, including 82% of the discrete graphics card market. Meanwhile, in Q1 2022, Intel will be the largest vendor in the global personal computer GPU market, with a 60% share. Nvidia took his 21% market share while AMD took his 19%.

Geti Computer Vision Brings New Uses for AI

Intel’s newly announced Geti computer vision AI platform will enable business unit enterprise team members to develop their own AI models. Instead of spending tens or hundreds of hours training an app via video to perform a specific function, it does this by only capturing about 10-12 images for the software to remember. can do. Accuracy. Adding a few other images will push the accuracy percentage even higher, Intel SVP Nick McKeown told his ZDNET.

The platform is currently being tested by select customers and partners. The company says it will be commercially available in the fourth quarter of 2022.

Geti and OpenVINO, another new product introduced at the conference, are complementary in addressing various AI modeling needs. Enterprise users can use Geti to upload data, build computer vision models, and deploy those models at scale using OpenVino running on Intel hardware. Geti has his optimized OpenVINO model output and ready to deploy, saving him an additional optimization step, McKeown said.

At the end of the keynote, Gelsinger invited Linux creator Linus Torvalds (pictured right) to the stage as a surprise guest and presented him with the first Intel Innovation Award. After reading Gelsinger’s book on programming the Intel 386 processor, Intel’s CEO called the Finnish engineer who started developing software in the 1980s “one of the true thought leaders in all of IT’s history. people,” he explained.

IDC longtime industry analyst Rick Villars told ZDNET: “Intel must put its innovations in the hands of developers, part of which is to make it clearer and more visible about expanding its processor portfolio with GPUs, DPUs, and specialized systems. What’s really changed is the way software is brought to market, the as-a-service model, and the whole control plane-based “there’s a way to deliver that software to thousands of places or individuals” Idea. That’s what Intel is doing now. ”