Intel Chip Chat

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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Dan Rodriguez, Vice President of Intel’s Data Center Group, General Manager of Network Compute Division joins Chip Chat to talk about groundbreaking data centric portfolio of innovations optimized for network transformation. Fueled by 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and complementary platform components, communication service providers can move, store, and process data with confidence across the most demanding workloads: from multi-cloud to intelligent edge and back.

Flexibility, performance and ease of use is at the heart of the network transformation efforts in the communications industry. New 2nd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and complimentary platform components are specifically designed to deliver these benefits from core to edge, especially as companies work to collapse multiple workloads onto a single server or rack of servers. Intel brought unique acceleration optimized for specific network workloads including virtual EPC, open virtual switching (OvS), 5G user plane functions, routers, switches and VCCAP, among others.

Dan also talks about the new Intel® Xeon® D-1600, which is part of Intel’s strategy to deliver the right performance, right power and right price for multiple network locations. The new solution is optimized for network edge, control plane, security and mid-range storage applications uCPE, routers, network security appliances and wireless base stations.

Intel® Select Solutions are rigorously benchmark-tested, verified solutions that help accelerate infrastructure deployment on Intel Xeon processors for today’s critical workloads in advanced analytics, hybrid cloud, visual cloud, storage and networking. Dan shared details about the importance of these new data centric solutions, memory innovation and network optimizations in the evolution of Intel® Select Solutions for NFVI and the new Intel® Select Solutions for Visual Cloud Delivery Networks. Learn more about these new solutions at www.intel.com/network.

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Dan Rodriguez, Vice President of Intel’s Data Center Group, General Manager of Network Compute Division joins Chip Chat to talk about groundbreaking data centric portfolio of innovations optimized for network transformation. Fueled by 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and complementary platform components, communication service providers can move, store, and process data with confidence across the most demanding workloads: from multi-cloud to intelligent edge and back.

Flexibility, performance and ease of use is at the heart of the network transformation efforts in the communications industry. New 2nd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and complimentary platform components are specifically designed to deliver these benefits from core to edge, especially as companies work to collapse multiple workloads onto a single server or rack of servers. Intel brought unique acceleration optimized for specific network workloads including virtual EPC, open virtual switching (OvS), 5G user plane functions, routers, switches and VCCAP, among others.

Dan also talks about the new Intel® Xeon® D-1600, which is part of Intel’s strategy to deliver the right performance, right power and right price for multiple network locations. The new solution is optimized for network edge, control plane, security and mid-range storage applications uCPE, routers, network security appliances and wireless base stations.

Intel® Select Solutions are rigorously benchmark-tested, verified solutions that help accelerate infrastructure deployment on Intel Xeon processors for today’s critical workloads in advanced analytics, hybrid cloud, visual cloud, storage and networking. Dan shared details about the importance of these new data centric solutions, memory innovation and network optimizations in the evolution of Intel® Select Solutions for NFVI and the new Intel® Select Solutions for Visual Cloud Delivery Networks. Learn more about these new solutions at www.intel.com/network.

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Tom Lattin, Vice President for Proliant and Cloudline Systems Product Management at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, joins Chip Chat to share excitement for technologies introduced on April 2nd at Intel Data-Centric Innovation Day. Tom's organization leads product, technology, go-to-market, and supplier strategies for all ProLiant Racks, ProLiant Towers, Cloudline servers, and related HPE Software. Tom speaks to data opportunities occurring in a variety of verticals and how customer opportunities and challenges are inspiring HPE's edge-centric, cloud-enabled, and data-driven technologies. Tom discusses how 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors are helping HPE deliver the capabilities customers need for key workloads like AI and deep learning and highlights HPE's collaboration with Intel around Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory to deliver new levels of memory capacity and storage performance. Finally, Tom outlines HPE's newest technologies for data-center security and monitoring. For more on HPE's offerings for the data center, please visit hpe.com.

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Tom Lattin, Vice President for Proliant and Cloudline Systems Product Management at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, joins Chip Chat to share excitement for technologies introduced on April 2nd at Intel Data-Centric Innovation Day. Tom's organization leads product, technology, go-to-market, and supplier strategies for all ProLiant Racks, ProLiant Towers, Cloudline servers, and related HPE Software. Tom speaks to data opportunities occurring in a variety of verticals and how customer opportunities and challenges are inspiring HPE's edge-centric, cloud-enabled, and data-driven technologies. Tom discusses how 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors are helping HPE deliver the capabilities customers need for key workloads like AI and deep learning and highlights HPE's collaboration with Intel around Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory to deliver new levels of memory capacity and storage performance. Finally, Tom outlines HPE's newest technologies for data-center security and monitoring. For more on HPE's offerings for the data center, please visit hpe.com.

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Brian Payne, Vice President for Product Management & Product Marketing for PowerEdge Servers at Dell EMC, joins Chip Chat to discuss satisfying future customer infrastructure needs with 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory. Payne's team defines Dell's PowerEdge hardware portfolio, shepherding new products through development and into the marketplace, as well as contributing to the software and systems management capabilities used in PowerEdge.

In this interview, Payne speaks to the advancement of the data center and IT transformation to being a central part of many businesses and how Dell is working to satisfy new and varied IT requirements. Payne highlights the move for many organizations to software-defined infrastructure and explains why this makes Intel Xeon processor based PowerEdge systems "the bedrock of the datacenter." Additionally, Payne talks about how Intel Optane DC persistent Memory is impacting the capabilities that Dell can deliver to its customers. Finally, Payne describes Dell's approach to security in the data center and how it's helping customers detect, react, and recover from any threats.

For more information on Dell PowerEdge Servers, please visit dellemc.com. For more information on Intel technologies for the data center, please visit intel.com/xeon.

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In this episode of Chip Chat, Paul Nash, Product Manager Compute Engine on Google Cloud Platform at Google, discusses the industry trends impacting IaaS and how Google Cloud Platform together with Intel are driving innovation in the cloud. Together Google and Intel are optimizing hardware to support enterprise workloads including developing solutions for SAP HANA.

Google Cloud Platform is also announcing a new family of instances that leverage Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory. Learn more about the benefits this new memory tier offers Google's customers along with more information on all the new instances being announced at Google Next 2019.

For more information visit google.cloud.com.

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In this episode of Chip Chat, Paul Nash, Product Manager Compute Engine on Google Cloud Platform at Google, discusses the industry trends impacting IaaS and how Google Cloud Platform together with Intel are driving innovation in the cloud. Together Google and Intel are optimizing hardware to support enterprise workloads including developing solutions for SAP HANA.

Google Cloud Platform is also announcing a new family of instances that leverage Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory. Learn more about the benefits this new memory tier offers Google's customers along with more information on all the new instances being announced at Google Next 2019.

For more information visit google.cloud.com.

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During her last chip chat Lynn spoke about Visual Cloud use cases and how focusing on Media was simply insufficient. Intel continues to drive innovations in Visual Cloud. In this chip chat hear Lynn talk about Intel’s latest announcements from Intel at NAB 2019. Intel in collaboration with Netflix release into open source SVT-AV1, a highly efficient, performance rich, next generation codec for AV1. With ability to scale from VOD to real time encoding of 4k content the SVT-AV1 promises to make AV1 commercially viable. Learn why continued innovation in codecs is key to delivery of compelling user experiences at a global scale. Lynn also talks about Intel’s announcement of Open Visual Cloud, an open source project that enables a set of pre-defined reference pipelines for visual cloud use cases that are based on optimized open source software (for encode, decode, inference and render) with seamless support for standard industry frameworks. Open Visual Cloud will make it quick and easy for the ecosystem to innovate and deploy leading edge visual cloud services. Lastly learn how Intel’s recently launched Intel® Select Solution for Visual Cloud Delivery Network which is based on Intel’s latest Second Generation Intel® Xeon™ Scalable and Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent Memory will enable Visual Cloud use cases including unleashing innovation in the content delivery networks for the era of Visual Cloud and 5G.

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Lisa Spelman, Vice President and General Manager for Intel Xeon Products and Data Center Marketing at Intel, joins Chip Chat to cover all the big news from Intel Data-Centric Innovation Day. Spelman leads Intel's Data Center Group's marketing efforts from product definition to launch and ramp. In this Chip Chat, Spelman and host Allyson Klein recap an exciting event that introduced a broad range of new products for moving, storing, and processing data. Spelman discusses Intel's approach to data-centric computing and capabilities that Intel is unlocking to help customers to make data a fundamental and transformative part of their business. Spelman highlights the launches of 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, including processors performance-optimized for network function virtualization, Intel Xeon Platinum 9200 processors for HPC, AI, and IaaS workloads, Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory, Intel Optane SSDs, Intel® QLC 3D NAND SSDs, and Intel® Ethernet 800 Series. Spelman additionally speaks to results already being realized by Intel customers like Amazon, Google, SAP, Siemens Healthineers, Twitter, and the North-German Supercomputing Alliance. For more information, please visit intel.com/xeon and follow Spelman on Twitter @LisaSpelman.

Intel technologies' features and benefits depend on system configuration and may require enabled hardware, software or service activation. Performance varies depending on system configuration. No product or component can be absolutely secure. Check with your system manufacturer or retailer or learn more at intel.com.

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