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Intel Announces Unmatched AI and Analytics Platform with New Processor, Memory, Storage and FPGA Solutions

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — June 18, 2020What’s New: Intel today introduced its 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and additions to its hardware and software AI portfolio, enabling customers to accelerate the development and use of artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics workloads running in data center, network and intelligent-edge environments. As the industry’s first mainstream server processor with built-in bfloat16 support, Intel’s new 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable processors makes AI inference and training more widely deployable on general-purpose CPUs for applications that include image classification, recommendation engines, speech recognition and language modeling.

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Intel announces its 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors on June 18, 2020. The processors extend Intel's investment in built-in AI acceleration through the integration of bfloat16 support into the processor’s unique Intel DL Boost technology. (Credit: Intel Corporation)

Intel announces its 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors on June 18, 2020. The processors extend Intel's investment in built-in AI acceleration through the integration of bfloat16 support into the processor’s unique Intel DL Boost technology. (Credit: Intel Corporation)

“The ability to rapidly deploy AI and data analytics is essential for today’s businesses. We remain committed to enhancing built-in AI acceleration and software optimizations within the processor that powers the world’s data center and edge solutions, as well as delivering an unmatched silicon foundation to unleash insight from data.”
–Lisa Spelman, Intel corporate vice president and general manager, Xeon and Memory Group

Why It’s Important: AI and analytics open new opportunities for customers across a broad range of industries, including finance, healthcare, industrial, telecom and transportation. IDC predicts that by 2021, 75% of commercial enterprise apps will use AI1. And by 2025, IDC estimates that roughly a quarter of all data generated will be created in real time, with various internet of things (IoT) devices creating 95% of that volume growth2.

Unequaled Portfolio Breadth and Ecosystem Support for AI and Analytics: Intel’s new data platforms, coupled with a thriving ecosystem of partners using Intel AI technologies, are optimized for businesses to monetize their data through the deployment of intelligent AI and analytics services.

The 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named “Cooper Lake”) evolve Intel’s 4- and 8-socket processor offering. The processor is designed for deep learning, virtual machine (VM) density, in-memory database, mission-critical applications and analytics-intensive workloads. Customers refreshing aging infrastructure can expect an average estimated gain of 1.9 times on popular workloads3 and up to 2.2 times more VMs4 compared with 5-year-old 4-socket platform equivalents.

When Products are Available: The 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors and Intel Optane persistent memory 200 series are shipping to customers today. In May, Facebook announced that 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors are the foundation for its newest Open Compute Platform (OCP) servers, and other leading CSPs, including Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent, have announced they are adopting the next-generation processors. General OEM systems availability is expected in the second half of 2020. The Intel SSD D7-P5500 and P5600 3D NAND SSDs are available today. And the Intel Stratix 10 NX FPGA is expected to be available in the second half of 2020.

More Context: Accelerating AI and Analytics – Intel Processors, FPGAs, Memory & Storage, and Software (Press Kit) | Unmatched AI and Analytics Platform from Intel (YouTube Video)

About Intel

Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) is an industry leader, creating world-changing technology that enables global progress and enriches lives. Inspired by Moore’s Law, we continuously work to advance the design and manufacturing of semiconductors to help address our customers’ greatest challenges. By embedding intelligence in the cloud, network, edge and every kind of computing device, we unleash the potential of data to transform business and society for the better. To learn more about Intel’s innovations, go to newsroom.intel.com and intel.com.

1 IDC, Worldwide Storage for Cognitive/AI Workloads Forecast, 2018–2022, #US43707918e, April 2018

2 IDC, Edge computing, 5G and AI — the perfect storm for government systems, Shawn McCarthy, April 8, 2020

Configurations:

3 1.9x average estimated gain on popular workloads with the new 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8380H processor vs. 5-year old platform. See claim 11 www.intel.com/3rd-gen-xeon-configs

4 Up to 2.2x more Virtual Machines with the new 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable platform and Intel® SSD Data Center Family vs. 5-year old 4-socket platform. See claim 4 www.intel.com/3rd-gen-xeon-configs

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