Intel Chip Chat

Brad Berkey, General Manager Worldwide SAP Sales at Microsoft, discusses the challenges SAP customers are facing within the datacenter. Businesses are going through the cloudification of the datacenter and transforming their infrastructure to leverage the benefits of the cloud. More specifically, SAP customers are dealing with the transition of their SAP applications to the S4 HANA database. This presents opportunity for accelerated innovation.

Microsoft Azure and Intel are ideally positioned to help customers drive innovation in the cloud and customers are looking for integrated solutions. Customers are eager to leverage the benefits of Intel's 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and Microsoft Azure facilitates and expedites adoption of these new technologies. Learn more about Microsoft Azure and SAP at https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/sap/.

You can also meet Brad and learn more about Intel's and Microsoft's joing solutions at the upcoming SAP Sapphire event in May: https://events.sap.com/sapandasug/en/home. For more information on how Intel is working with CSP's to innovate cloud solutions, visit intel.com/csp.

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Brad Berkey, General Manager Worldwide SAP Sales at Microsoft, discusses the challenges SAP customers are facing within the datacenter. Businesses are going through the cloudification of the datacenter and transforming their infrastructure to leverage the benefits of the cloud. More specifically, SAP customers are dealing with the transition of their SAP applications to the S4 HANA database. This presents opportunity for accelerated innovation.

Microsoft Azure and Intel are ideally positioned to help customers drive innovation in the cloud and customers are looking for integrated solutions. Customers are eager to leverage the benefits of Intel's 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and Microsoft Azure facilitates and expedites adoption of these new technologies. Learn more about Microsoft Azure and SAP at https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/sap/.

You can also meet Brad and learn more about Intel's and Microsoft's joing solutions at the upcoming SAP Sapphire event in May: https://events.sap.com/sapandasug/en/home. For more information on how Intel is working with CSP's to innovate cloud solutions, visit intel.com/csp.

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Smart companies are modernizing enterprise infrastructure as the foundation for new digital services; extracting insights from their data to accelerate business decisions; and securing their customers' data to avoid becoming another statistic. In this episode, Bill Giard explains how Intel and its partners are helping customers future-proof their businesses with cloud technology innovations. Through the ecosystem of solutions, customers will find what they need to accelerate digital transformation and compete more effectively.

Bill Giard is a Senior Principal Engineer in the Data Center Group at Intel. He has 20+ years’ experience designing enterprise architectures and developing software solutions across supply-chain, product development, and enterprise infrastructure segments. Before joining DCG he led software development in Intel IT to modernize the application and computing environment.

For more information about the Intel data-centric portfolio for enterprise customers, visit https://intel.com/xeonscalable or https://intel.com/yourdata.

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Smart companies are modernizing enterprise infrastructure as the foundation for new digital services; extracting insights from their data to accelerate business decisions; and securing their customers' data to avoid becoming another statistic. In this episode, Bill Giard explains how Intel and its partners are helping customers future-proof their businesses with cloud technology innovations. Through the ecosystem of solutions, customers will find what they need to accelerate digital transformation and compete more effectively.

Bill Giard is a Senior Principal Engineer in the Data Center Group at Intel. He has 20+ years’ experience designing enterprise architectures and developing software solutions across supply-chain, product development, and enterprise infrastructure segments. Before joining DCG he led software development in Intel IT to modernize the application and computing environment.

For more information about the Intel data-centric portfolio for enterprise customers, visit https://intel.com/xeonscalable or https://intel.com/yourdata.

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Cristina Rodriguez is the Vice President of Intel’s Data Center Group and General Manager of the Wireless Access Network Division. She sits down with Allyson Klein in this episode of Chip Chat to talk about the transformation of the radio access network to support commercial 5G deployments around the globe.

5G services demand a new architectural approach for radio access networks. Communication service providers are not taking a one-size-fits-all approach to this transformation. Instead they are evaluating a mix of approaches, including traditional distributed, fully or centralized virtualization, integrated, micro cells and more. This pragmatic view positions CommSPs to leverage existing investments while introducing cloud architectural concepts. Similarly Intel takes a holistic solution view of each deployment that draws on a broad portfolio of high performance CPUs, SOCs with network acceleration, eASIC, FPGAs, software, storage and more.

Cristina details the new “Snow Ridge” 10-nm SOC that extends Intel architecture into 5G wireless access base stations for control and packet processing and will establish new performance per watt leadership. Ericsson is already planning to deploy Snow Ridge in its portfolio of solutions. She also highlights some of the recent innovations in FlexRAN to bring cloud innovation to the radio access network in the form of SDN, NFV, Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC), network slicing and more. She also touches on the momentum and maturity in ecosystem solutions intended to accelerate adoption across the market.

Rodriguez also shares some of the new 5G use cases in industrial, retail, entertainment and other industries that are making the previously impossible, possible. These use cases are made possible by transformed networks, and her team’s work in RAN will play a key role in this end-to-end transformation.

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Cristina Rodriguez is the Vice President of Intel’s Data Center Group and General Manager of the Wireless Access Network Division. She sits down with Allyson Klein in this episode of Chip Chat to talk about the transformation of the radio access network to support commercial 5G deployments around the globe.

5G services demand a new architectural approach for radio access networks. Communication service providers are not taking a one-size-fits-all approach to this transformation. Instead they are evaluating a mix of approaches, including traditional distributed, fully or centralized virtualization, integrated, micro cells and more. This pragmatic view positions CommSPs to leverage existing investments while introducing cloud architectural concepts. Similarly Intel takes a holistic solution view of each deployment that draws on a broad portfolio of high performance CPUs, SOCs with network acceleration, eASIC, FPGAs, software, storage and more.

Cristina details the new “Snow Ridge” 10-nm SOC that extends Intel architecture into 5G wireless access base stations for control and packet processing and will establish new performance per watt leadership. Ericsson is already planning to deploy Snow Ridge in its portfolio of solutions. She also highlights some of the recent innovations in FlexRAN to bring cloud innovation to the radio access network in the form of SDN, NFV, Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC), network slicing and more. She also touches on the momentum and maturity in ecosystem solutions intended to accelerate adoption across the market.

Rodriguez also shares some of the new 5G use cases in industrial, retail, entertainment and other industries that are making the previously impossible, possible. These use cases are made possible by transformed networks, and her team’s work in RAN will play a key role in this end-to-end transformation.

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Cristina Rodriguez is the Vice President of Intel’s Data Center Group and General Manager of the Wireless Access Network Division. She sits down with Allyson Klein in this episode of Chip Chat to talk about the transformation of the radio access network to support commercial 5G deployments around the globe.

5G services demand a new architectural approach for radio access networks. Communication service providers are not taking a one-size-fits-all approach to this transformation. Instead they are evaluating a mix of approaches, including traditional distributed, fully or centralized virtualization, integrated, micro cells and more. This pragmatic view positions CommSPs to leverage existing investments while introducing cloud architectural concepts. Similarly Intel takes a holistic solution view of each deployment that draws on a broad portfolio of high performance CPUs, SOCs with network acceleration, eASIC, FPGAs, software, storage and more.

Cristina details the new “Snow Ridge” 10-nm SOC that extends Intel architecture into 5G wireless access base stations for control and packet processing and will establish new performance per watt leadership. Ericsson is already planning to deploy Snow Ridge in its portfolio of solutions. She also highlights some of the recent innovations in FlexRAN to bring cloud innovation to the radio access network in the form of SDN, NFV, Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC), network slicing and more. She also touches on the momentum and maturity in ecosystem solutions intended to accelerate adoption across the market.

Rodriguez also shares some of the new 5G use cases in industrial, retail, entertainment and other industries that are making the previously impossible, possible. These use cases are made possible by transformed networks, and her team’s work in RAN will play a key role in this end-to-end transformation.

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Gautam Shah, president and CEO of Colfax International, joins host Allyson Klein in this episode of Chip Chat to discuss the launch of the new 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor. Gautam explains that this launch from Intel brought significantly more to the market this time with the announcement of Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory and a host of related data center products and technologies.

Colfax International, a leading provider of innovative and expertly engineered workstations, servers, clusters, storage, and personal supercomputing solutions, is excited by the opportunities now made possible with this latest set of data center technologies enabled by the 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors.

Specifically, Gautam highlights that the VNNI instruction set offered by Intel® Deep Learning Boost to improve performance in inference will allow Colfax customers to do more with AI, and Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory will support the larger memory footprint Colfax customers need for solutions like SAP* and Redis* in standard 1U systems.

To learn more about Colfax International and the solutions they specialize in, visit https://www.colfax-intl.com or call 408-730-2275.

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Gautam Shah, president and CEO of Colfax International, joins host Allyson Klein in this episode of Chip Chat to discuss the launch of the new 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor. Gautam explains that this launch from Intel brought significantly more to the market this time with the announcement of Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory and a host of related data center products and technologies.

Colfax International, a leading provider of innovative and expertly engineered workstations, servers, clusters, storage, and personal supercomputing solutions, is excited by the opportunities now made possible with this latest set of data center technologies enabled by the 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors.

Specifically, Gautam highlights that the VNNI instruction set offered by Intel® Deep Learning Boost to improve performance in inference will allow Colfax customers to do more with AI, and Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory will support the larger memory footprint Colfax customers need for solutions like SAP* and Redis* in standard 1U systems.

To learn more about Colfax International and the solutions they specialize in, visit https://www.colfax-intl.com or call 408-730-2275.

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Wei Li, Vice President of Intel® Architecture, Graphics and Software, and General Manager of Machine Learning and Translation at Intel, joins Chip Chat to share Intel’s overarching strategy and vision for the future of AI and outline the company’s edge to cloud AI portfolio. Wei discusses how Intel architecture enables consistency across different platforms without having to overhaul systems. He also highlights increased inference performance with the 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor with Intel® Deep Learning Boost (Intel DL Boost) technology, introduced at Intel Data-Centric Innovation Day. Intel DL Boost speeds inference up to 14x [1] by combining what used to be done in three instructions into one instruction and also allowing lower precision (int8) across multiple frameworks such as TensorFlow*, PyTorch*, Caffe* and Apache MXNet*. He also touches on the work Intel has done on the software side with projects like the OpenVINO™ toolkit – which accelerates DNN workloads and optimizes deep learning solutions across various hardware platforms. Finally, Wei outlines future AI integrations in Intel Xeon Scalable processors, like support for bfloat16. For more on Intel AI and the wide range of offerings and products, please visit www.intel.ai.

[1] 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with Intel Deep Learning Boost provide up to 14x faster inference in comparison to 1st Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors in July 2017, for details see https://www.intel.ai/2ndgenxeonscalable/.

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