Intel kondigt nieuwe cloud-to-edge technologieën aan om de uitdagingen van vandaag en morgen op te lossen

Vandaag tijdens de eerste dag van het Intel Vision-evenement kondigde Intel verbe­te­ringen aan op het gebied van silicium, software en diensten. Daarbij laat het bedrijf zien hoe het tech­no­lo­gieën en het ecosys­teem samen­brengt om vandaag en in de toekomst bedrijfs­waarde voor klanten te reali­seren. Onder de voordelen die uit prak­tijk­voor­beelden naar voren komen, zijn verbe­terde bedrijfs­re­sul­taten en inzichten, lagere totale eigen­doms­kosten, een snellere time-to-market en waarde, en een positieve wereld­wijde impact.

Pat Gelsinger, CEO van Intel: “We bevinden ons in de meest dyna­mi­sche wereld­markt van dit tijdperk. De uitda­gingen waar orga­ni­sa­ties vandaag de dag voor staan zijn complex en onderling verbonden, en succes hangt af van hun vermogen om snel geavan­ceerde tech­no­lo­gieën en infra­struc­tuur toe te passen en te maxi­ma­li­seren. Vandaag zijn we verheugd om te delen hoe we onze schaal, middelen en de magie van silicium, software en diensten inzetten om klanten en partners te helpen digitale trans­for­ma­ties in deze complexe omgeving te versnellen.”

Hier is het oorspron­ke­lijke Engels­ta­lige persbericht:

Intel Announces New Cloud-to-Edge Technologies to Solve Challenges of Today and Tomorrow

At Intel Vision 2022, the company showcases how education, finance, manu­fac­tu­ring, medicine, trans­porta­tion and defense indu­stries are trans­formed through Intel silicon, software, and services.

News highlights

• Argonne National Labo­ra­to­ries, Blue White Robotics, Bosch, Dell Tech­no­lo­gies, Federated Wireless, Lenovo, and Nourish + Bloom Market are among the customers and partners high­ligh­ting how Intel tech­no­logy helps fuel digital transformation.
• New product announ­ce­ments include launch of Intel’s Habana® Gaudi®2 AI processor for training data center workloads and 12^th Gen Intel® Core™ HX proces­sors that are perfect for hybrid work. Intel also adds details on its data center GPU (code-named Arctic Sound‑M, ATS‑M), 4^th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor (code-named Sapphire Rapids) and Intel’s infra­struc­ture proces­sing unit (IPU) roadmap.
• New software and services include Project Apollo for smoother enter­prise AI deploy­ments, plus Project Endgame and Intel® On Demand for compute on demand and the flexi­bi­lity to meet the needs of evolving workloads.

GRAPEVINE, Texas, May 10, 2022 – Today at its inaugural Intel Vision event, Intel announced advan­ce­ments across silicon, software and services, show­ca­sing how it brings together tech­no­lo­gies and the ecosystem to unlock business value for customers today and in the future. Among the benefits high­lighted across real-world examples are improved business results and insights, reduced total cost of ownership, acce­le­rated time to market and value, and positive global impact.

“We are in the most dynamic global market of our lifetime. The chal­lenges orga­ni­za­tions face today are complex and inter­con­nected, and success depends on their ability to quickly adopt and maximize leading-edge tech­no­lo­gies and infra­struc­ture,” said Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger. “Today, we are excited to share how we are applying our scale, resources and the magic of silicon, software and services to help customers and partners acce­le­rate digital trans­for­ma­tions in this complex environment.”

New Silicon, Software and Services to Fuel Digital Transformations

The tech­no­logy super­po­wers of arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence, ubiqui­tous computing, pervasive connec­ti­vity and cloud-to-edge infra­struc­ture are fueling unpre­ce­dented demand for semi­con­duc­tors and opening the door to infinite possi­bi­li­ties, from a truly hybrid workforce to entirely new immersive expe­riences. At the same time, busi­nesses face growing pressures around supply chain, security, sustai­na­bi­lity and the ability to adapt to the complexity of new workloads. Intel is working to help address these chal­lenges with the intro­duc­tion of new hardware, software and services from cloud to edge to client.

Today’s announ­ce­ments include:

• A major leap in deep learning proces­sing with Habana Gaudi2: Gaudi proces­sors are used for the highest end deep learning AI training and are known for their ability to enable customers to train more and pay less. Launching today, Habana Gaudi2 and Greco AI acce­le­ra­tors are built on a single software stack, Synapse AI, that easily supports different archi­tec­tures, enabling end-users to take advantage of the proces­sors’ perfor­mance and effi­ci­ency. In addition, Gaudi2 delivers two times better AI training perfor­mance compared with current in-market A100-based offerings for key vision and NLP workloads1.
• 4^th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable sets a new standard for modern perfor­mance: Intel is shipping initial SKUs of 4^th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable proces­sors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) today. These are the first of many SKUs, with more due to ramp throug­hout the remainder of the year. The 4^th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable proces­sors deliver excep­ti­onal overall perfor­mance, will support DDR5, PCIe Gen5 and CXL 1.1, and are equipped with new inte­grated acce­le­ra­tors that deliver up to 30x perfor­mance versus the prior gene­ra­tion through software and hardware opti­mi­za­tions for AI workloads2. For telco networks it also has new capa­bi­li­ties that deliver up to two times3 capacity gains for virtual radio access network (vRAN) deploy­ments. In high perfor­mance computing, Intel Xeon proces­sors, code-named Sapphire Rapids with high bandwidth memory (HBM), will drama­ti­cally boost memory bandwidth available to the processor, super-charging high-perfor­mance computing.
• AI made more acces­sible for enter­prises through Project Apollo: In part­ner­ship with Accenture, Intel kicked off Project Apollo, a program that will provide enter­prises with more than 30 open-source AI solutions kits that are optimally designed to make AI more acces­sible to customers in on-prem, cloud and edge envi­ron­ments. The first Project Apollo kits will be released in the next few months.
• Preparing for the data center of the future with IPUs: Intel unveiled its IPU roadmap extending through 2026, featuring new FPGA + Intel archi­tec­ture platforms (code-named Hot Springs Canyon) and the Mount Morgan (MMG) ASIC, as well as next-gene­ra­tion 800GB products. IPUs are dedicated products with hardened acce­le­ra­tion for infra­struc­ture compute needs, allowing busi­nesses to accom­plish tasks quicker and solve problems faster.
• Single GPU solution for media transcode, visual graphics and inference in the cloud: Intel’s data center GPU, code-named Arctic Sound‑M (ATS‑M), is the industry’s first discrete GPU with an AV1 hardware encoder. ATS‑M is a versatile GPU with leader­ship transcode quality and perfor­mance targeting 150 trillion opera­tions per second (TOPS). Devel­o­pers will be able to easily design for ATS‑M with an open software stack through oneAPI. ATS‑M will be available in two form factors and in more than 15 system designs from partners including Dell Tech­no­lo­gies, Super­micro„ Inspur, and H3C . It will launch in 2022’s third quarter.
• New 12^th Gen Intel Core HX proces­sors for hybrid work: The company completed the 12^th Gen family with the launch of the new 12^th Gen Intel Core HX proces­sors. Created for profes­si­o­nals who need maximum perfor­mance and flexi­bi­lity to navigate a hybrid envi­ron­ment, and with up to 16 cores and clock speeds up to 5 GHz, the Intel Core i9-12900HX processor is the world’s best mobile work­sta­tion platform4.

Recog­ni­zing that users also want the flexi­bi­lity to tap into compute resources when and where they need them, Intel provided a first concept demon­stra­tion of its software infra­struc­ture initi­a­tive: Project Endgame. Appli­ca­tions can take advantage of this software infra­struc­ture layer that enables devices to harness computing resources from other devices within the network to provide an always-available, low latency, continual compute service. For example, a demanding GPU workload running on one device can sense and tap into addi­ti­onal graphics proces­sing horse­power from a more powerful machine to enhance the user’s expe­rience. Project Endgame is in devel­op­ment, and Intel will begin beta testing the first miles­tones of the tech­no­logy this year.

Today’s announ­ce­ments also included an early look at steps Intel is taking to enable service models across the ecosystem. The intro­duc­tion of the Intel On Demand service offering helps enter­prises meet the needs of evolving workloads, product sustai­na­bi­lity and oppor­tu­ni­ties to scale systems near the data. Currently offered through select partners HPE GreenLake, Lenovo TruScale and PhoenixNAP’s Bare Metal Cloud, Intel intro­duced a new consump­tion business model to enable customers to align their infra­struc­ture with their business needs and requirements.

Working Together to Create World-Changing Technology

The power and positive impact of Intel’s broad portfolio truly comes to life through examples that show not only how the hardware, software and services work together, but also the deep way that Intel colla­bo­rates with customers, partners and the ecosystem.

High­lights from today include:

• High perfor­mance computing to solve the world’s most complex chal­lenges: Argonne National Labo­ra­to­ries is on track to deliver 2 exaflops of peak perfor­mance with the Aurora super­com­puter running on the Intel Xeon processor, code-named Sapphire Rapids with High Bandwidth Memory (HBM), and the Intel data center GPU, code-named Ponte Vecchio, with Intel oneAPI providing devel­o­pers seamless system inte­gra­tion. During today’s opening keynote, Rick Stevens, labo­ra­tory director for Computing, Envi­ron­ment and Life Science of Argonne, showed the instal­la­tion of the Aurora super­com­puter for the first time, discus­sing how it will help solve some of humankind’s most complex problems, such as more accurate climate predic­tions and discovery of new cancer treat­ments, while making exascale acces­sible for more research and devel­op­ment, and innovation.
• Confi­dence with confi­den­tial computing: In an incre­a­singly dynamic regu­la­tory landscape, global companies must address several consi­de­ra­tions when deter­mi­ning how to use regulated data to effec­ti­vely train and develop neural networks. Bosch and Intel colla­bo­rated on a research effort to develop a confi­den­tial AI solution that allows Bosch to train its neural networks confi­den­ti­ally in the public cloud. To help achieve this at scale, Bosch Corporate Research has built a confi­den­tial AI platform powered by Intel® Software Guard Exten­sions available with 3^rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable platforms.
• Agri­cul­ture autonomy with private wireless networks: Intel­li­gent edge solutions have the potential to transform food culti­va­tion by helping farmers increase yields and opera­ti­onal effi­ci­ency while addres­sing labor shortages and human error. Data analytics also offer the oppor­tu­nity to deliver insights that help farmers to increase yields and improve crop health while reducing the resources they require. Blue White Robotics developed a new type of auto­no­mous agri­cul­tural solution that trans­forms a grower’s existing equipment into a fleet of auto­no­mous tractors connected to an internet-based mana­ge­ment platform. With help from Intel and Federated Wireless, Blue White Robotics made this a scalable solution that leverages Intel® Smart Edge and Intel® Xeon® D proces­sors, and employs the power of edge computing and shared spectrum to create a private wireless network on any farm anywhere.
• Fric­ti­on­less retail expe­rience: The pandemic has changed the way people want to shop, with many prefer­ring stores with touchless or self-checkout options. Nourish + Bloom Market set out to design a fric­ti­on­less shopping expe­rience that embraced auto­ma­tion without replacing jobs. To accom­plish this, Nourish + Bloom worked with Intel and UST, a leading trans­for­ma­tion solutions company, to tap into the collec­tive technical knowledge for building inno­va­tions like a next-gene­ra­tion self-checkout using computer vision tech­no­logy and a fully auto­no­mous store shopping expe­rience.
  Tech for good: Intel works across the ecosystem to drive positive global change for future gene­ra­tions, such as working to further reduce its direct and indirect green­house gas emissions and ensuring the brightest future and next-gene­ra­tion skills for tomorrow’s workforce through programs like Intel’s AI Festival and colla­bo­ra­tion with the Hidden Genius Project and Autodesk.