Intel’s manufacturing landscape is evolving rapidly, driven by digital transformation and automation. Intel’s manufacturing facilities generate vast amounts of data that must be efficiently processed, analyzed, and secured to optimize operations and maintain competitiveness.

In 2013, we deployed an “ultra” data warehouse that replaced our older fragmented and siloed databases. It has stood the test of time, easily scaling as we added yet more data and data domains. As Intel transitions to a foundry model, its factories will become more complex and will generate even more data than before. Plus, security is becoming even more critical—Intel must not only protect its own manufacturing data from unauthorized access; it must also ensure that Intel Foundry customers have confidence that their data is in safe hands and guaranteed to be separate from Intel’s data. We have implemented process-specific security (PSS), which helps prevent unauthorized data access while still delivering efficient query execution.

Our highly secure and high-performance data warehouse, running on modern Intel architecture, helps unlock important insights hidden in massive manufacturing data volumes. This solution has shown that it can reliably scale to handle not only today’s data challenges but also grow with Intel as it expands its factories to support its foundry model and IDM 2.0.