Intel Chip Chat

Ronnie Vasishta, Vice President and General Manager for the Networking and Configurable Logic Division at Intel, joins Chip Chat to discuss the critical role of programmable solutions in the delivery of network infrastructure for 5G. Vasishta joined Intel with the acquisition of eASIC in 2018 and is responsible both for running eASIC within Intel and for the wireline and wireless networking business for Intel's programmable solutions. In this interview, Vasishta and host Allyson Klein dive deep on technologies that are part of what Vasishta calls the "custom logic continuum." Vasishta talks about "structured ASICs," an intermediary between FPGAs and true ASICs with lower unit-cost and power consumption than FPGAs but faster time-to-market and lower engineering cost than true ASICs. Additionally, Vasishta highlights next-generation Intel eASIC code-named Diamond Mesa. Drawing upon generations of customer learning from both Intel and eASIC, Diamond Mesa is already seeing early adoption in 5G RAN applications

On this episode of Chip Chat, Intel CIO Archie Deskus talks with host Allyson Klein about how Intel was able to successfully pivot its workforce while maintaining business operations. Because Intel created a Pandemic Leadership Team (PLT) following the SARS outbreak of 2002-2003, there was some preparation for half of all employees work remotely, but the speed and severity of this pandemic forced the company to innovate rapidly. The two discuss why Intel needed to make numerous changes across manufacturing, supply chain, sales and marketing, human resources and finance while supporting 100,000 remote workers worldwide and go into further details about how Intel IT was able to double VPN capacity over a single weekend. Read more about how Intel transitioned to support 100,000 remote workers in Archie’s blog on the IT Peer Network: https://itpeernetwork.intel.com/how-intel-it-transitioned-to-supporting-100000-remote-workers/ Find more about Intel’s best practices for IT organizations at intel.com/it, and foll

On this episode of Chip Chat, Vikas Bhatia, Head of Product for Microsoft Azure Confidential Computing, talks with host Allyson Klein about the role of Azure and Intel SGX in protecting applications and data during use in the public cloud. Azure Confidential Computing is a broad Microsoft initiative to protect applications and data while in use in the public cloud and is enabled by Intel SGX. Vikas describes exciting recent developments in confidential computing, including the Confidential Computing Consortium, the general availability announcement of Intel SGX-based VMs, and various use cases that customers are targeting with confidential computing. To learn more about Azure Confidential Computing with Intel SGX-based VMs, visit http://aka.ms/azurecc or follow @azure on Twitter. Notices & Disclaimers Intel technologies may require enabled hardware, software or service activation. No product or component can be absolutely secure. Your costs and results may vary. © Intel Corporation. Intel, the Intel

Bob Ghaffari, General Manager for the Enterprise and Cloud Networking Division at Intel, joins Chip Chat to discuss the evolution of networks to meet the needs of the enterprise network edge. Ghaffari works with customers and partners to ensure that Intel has the right solutions for the cloud and enterprise as networks continue to be virtualized and transformed. In this interview, Ghaffari and host Allyson Klein talk about how Intel is delivering new solutions and architectures to help customers access and move the data they need in an increasingly hybrid- and multi-cloud world. Ghaffari provides an overview of some of the key technologies in Intel's silicon foundation for the edge, such as Intel® Xeon® D processors, Intel® QuickAssist Technology (Intel® QAT), and the Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK). Ghaffari additionally highlights OpenNESS (Open Network Edge Services Software) as a way for customers to deploy edge services more rapidly, especially in a multi-cloud environment. Finally, Ghaffari speaks t

On this episode of Chip Chat, High Performance Computing Vice President and General Manager Trish Damkroger talks with host Allyson Klein about HPC’s relevance in today’s society, particularly in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. The podcast covers how Intel’s HPC solutions offer computing resources to researchers and scientists to better understand the underlying characteristics of COVID-19, to help limit the spread of the virus, and to advance the development of COVID-19 vaccines. Today’s episode also discusses various HPC workloads that are being used and Trish’s observations on the HPC community’s positive responses and contributions. To learn more about HPC features and capabilities, visit intel.com/HPC. If you’d like to personally engage with Trish Damkroger, visit her Twitter account at https://twitter.com/trish_damkroger. Notices & Disclaimers Intel technologies may require enabled hardware, software or service activation. No product or component can be absolutely secure. Your costs and results m

On this episode of Chip Chat, Alex Quach, Vice President and General Manager of the Wireline and Wireless Core Network Division at Intel, updates on his team’s work to deliver the best platform solutions for 5G wireless core. Efforts have been made to virtualize the wireless core for years, starting with 4G networks, and Intel has enabled the industry to make impressive gains as the transition to 5G ramps in 2020. Quach and host Allyson Klein discuss the new requirements imposed on network infrastructure by 5G, and how Intel is working with customers and customers’ customers to define and deliver an unmatched solution portfolio for 5G network infrastructure, including 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors. Quach additionally highlights several recent proof points by Intel partners and customers that are important milestones on the path to the mobile core that future networks will depend on. To learn more about Intel’s unparalleled portfolio for 5G network infrastructure, visit intel.com/network an

Don Potts is a Senior Manager-SAP Solutions at Dell Technologies. He joins the podcast to talk about how consistent hardware infrastructure provides additional value for SAP users. SAP is one of the world’s largest enterprise resource planning providers. Its impact on business, finance and technology cannot be underestimated. Dell delivers solutions to meet customers wherever they are in their SAP journey. But for SAP to be most effective, customers need consistent hardware and modernized infrastructure. In this episode, guest host Jake Smith talks with Don Potts about why SAP is so important to joint Dell/Intel customers, how they are using it, and what value they are getting from it. They also discuss how Dell solutions for SAP, powered by Intel technologies, are helping transform the intelligent enterprise from edge to core. Dell solutions for SAP are powered by Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, Intel® OptaneTM DC Persistent Memory, and Intel® OptaneTM SSD. To learn more about how Dell and Intel are join

On this episode of Chip Chat, Cristina Rodriguez, Vice President in the Data Center Group and General Manager of the Wireless Access Network Division at Intel, talks with host Allyson Klein about Intel’s expanding network portfolio. Rodriguez discusses the company’s unique vision of a fully connected, intelligent network from cloud to edge. As analysts are forecasting that millions of new 5G base stations will need to be deployed in the coming years to expand customer services, Intel is engaging with the broader network industry to create solutions that can scale across all types of radio access network (RAN) deployments. Rodriguez goes into detail about how Intel collaborated with the world’s 5G leaders to design standard, high-volume silicon for RAN deployment with the new 10nm Intel® Atom® P 5900 and the deep investments Intel has made in software. To learn more about Intel’s network portfolio, visit intel.com/network and follow Cristina Rodriguez on Twitter at @cristinar_5g. Notices & Disclaimers Int

Jeni Panhorst, Vice President and General Manager for the Network and Edge Platforms Division at Intel, joins Chip Chat to update on Intel's hardware and software infrastructure for the enablement of edge services. Panhorst has responsibility for all of Intel's products and platforms for network and network edge infrastructure, partnering deeply with customers to deliver the capabilities that will define the network of tomorrow. In this interview, Panhorst and host Allyson Klein highlight key technologies advancing the development of edge services, beginning with Intel Atom® P5900, a new 10nm System on a Chip (SoC) for 5G radio access networks (RAN). As Panhorst shares, 2020 is expected to see significant growth in 5G deployments. This new SoC delivers on customers' needs for high performance for packet processing and base station workloads and integrates seamlessly with other Intel network infrastructure products for end-to-end network solutions. Panhorst also speaks to up-the-stack Intel software investme

On this episode of Chip Chat, Dan Speck, Vice President Technology R&D at Burwood Group, talks with host Allyson Klein about performance improvements gained from the new C2 compute instances offered by Google Cloud Platform (GCP), powered by 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors. Customers, like genomics researchers needing large scale parallel workloads, rely on Burwood Group to help design and architect workloads that can operate efficiently in the cloud. To meet these needs, the company carefully considered performance, flexibility, and security before selecting the new C2 instance from GCP. To learn more about Burwood Group, visit www.burwood.com. Notices & Disclaimers Intel technologies may require enabled hardware, software or service activation. No product or component can be absolutely secure. Your costs and results may vary. © Intel Corporation. Intel, the Intel logo, and other Intel marks are trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries. Other names and brands may be claimed

Dan Rodriguez, Corporate Vice President and General Manager for the Network Platforms group at Intel, joins Chip Chat to update on Intel's strategy and solutions for transforming network infrastructure for 5G. In this interview, Rodriguez and host Allyson Klein dig in to Intel's announcements from February 24th, 2020, which expanded Intel's unmatched portfolio of solutions for network infrastructure. Rodriguez highlights updated 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, the critical component fueling network transformation and the delivery of new services. The latest 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors deliver 36% more performance and 42% more performance per dollar compared to the prior generation [1]. Rodriguez also shares excitement over Intel Atom® P5900, a new 10nm System on a Chip (SoC) with the right mix of compute cores, connectivity, and acceleration to power 5G radio access network base stations well into the future. Intel Atom P5900 is already seeing significant interest from the indu

Jennifer Huffstetler, Vice President, Data Platforms Group, and General Manager, Strategy, Xeon and Memory Group at Intel, joins host Allyson Klein to update on Intel’s data-centric strategy for network transformation and share news on additions to its unmatched portfolio of products for 5G network infrastructure. The latest updates continue to further Intel’s vision of enabling customers to do more with data, wherever data occurs. This week, Intel introduced many exciting advances to enable network transformation from core to edge, headlined by the Intel Atom® P5900 processor, a a 10nm system-on-a-chip for wireless base stations, and expansion of Intel’s 2nd-gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor line-up. These latest processors deliver customers up to 36% higher performance [1] over the prior generation for our customers across their cloud, network, and edge needs. Other announcements this week, including the launch of the new Intel Ethernet 700 Series network adapters with Hardware-Enhanced Precision Time P

For decades computer scientists have recognized the need for memory to keep up with compute. Beginning in the 1940s engineers have had to balance how systems process information with how they store and access it. Since its introduction, 3Dx Point memory, the basis for Intel® Optane DC Persistent Memory, has helped mitigate one of the biggest bottlenecks to performance. Frank Hady is a fellow and Director of Storage Technology Group, Intel. In this episode of Chip Chat he and host Allyson Klein explore the relationship of memory and storage to compute, and outlines how Intel is helping accelerate performance throughout information ecosystems and re-invent the memory storage paradigm in systems. Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the U.S. and/or other countries. © Intel Corporation

On this episode of Chip Chat, founder and CTO of WP Engine, Jason Cohen, discusses the future of web hosting and how his company passes performance onto his customers. WP Engine is one of the largest Wordpress hosting sites and helps marketers reach customers quickly and effectively online. The most important factor for website success is speed as a slow website can result in fewer visits and fewer conversions. There are many factors to consider when increasing site speed but underlying all of these variables is the processor powering the experience. Cohen's team recently upgraded their cloud capabilities to Google Cloud's compute optimized instances, leveraging Intel® 2nd Gen Xeon Scalable processors. Learn more about how this has benefitted WP Engine customers in this 13-minute podcast. To learn more about WP Engine, visit https://www.WPengine.com or follow them on Twitter at @WPEngine. Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the U.S. and/or other countri

Cloud to edge is much hyped as the next wave of digital transformation, and edge computing promises to remove many of the limitations of public and private cloud. But you need to have common, seamless frameworks to work at the edge, on premises, and in public cloud. Talal Alqinawi explains what Microsoft is doing to enable this and how enterprises can make cloud to edge part of their digital strategy. He goes on to explain why the time is right for enterprise edge. IT doesn’t sit in one data center, and it’s not one type of application. It is a set of connected applications and activities that have to work together. Having recognized that, many businesses have interactive applications with their clients. They must service their businesses, their clients, and even their supply chains to become one connected community. This is the intelligent edge. Talal also offers practical steps enterprises can take to get started in their cloud to edge journey. Talal Alqinawi is the Senior Director of Product Marketing

Join us on this episode of Chip Chat with special guest host Jake Smith as he interviews Stefan Deml, CTO and CO-Founder of decentriq. This podcast covers what decentriq is doing to offer solutions that prioritize data safety and simplicity in a new era of confidential computing. Stefan explains how until now, technology only allowed us to protect data at-rest and in-transit, but we are finally closing the loop with Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel SGX) and can protect data while it is in-use. decentriq has built their avato platform with at root of trust on Intel hardware and they are enabling data collaboration between multiple untrusted parties in an end-to-end encrypted environment. Stefan shares how decentriq’s customers will now be able to execute advanced applications like privacy-preserving analytics and secure Machine Learning (ML). To learn more, visit https://www.decentriq.ch.

Cristina Rodriguez, Vice President for the Data Platforms Group and General Manager for the Wireless Access Network Division for Intel, joins Chip Chat to update on the evolution of compute infrastructure for the network edge. Rodriguez leads Intel's efforts to provide innovative Wireless Access Network solutions, including those for 5G. 5G deployments are a significant area of focus for the communications industry, with Gartner predicting greater than $4 billion in 5G infrastructure spending in 2020 alone[1]. In this interview, Rodriguez and host Allyson Klein dive into Intel's strategy for enabling new edge and 5G use cases. Rodriguez notes that while 5G and the big data explosion enable new opportunities for service providers, these opportunities often depend on low latency and high reliability in the wireless network. This means moving more compute closer to the edge, where the data is being generated, and harnessing virtualization and cloud architectures throughout the network, from data center to core

Microsoft recently announced general availability of Azure Large Instances (which scale up to 9TB) with Intel® Optane DC Persistent Memory. Microsoft and Intel have partnered extensively with SAP to deliver greater performance, capacity, and database availability and support to SAP HANA customers. Juergen Thomas is the Principal Architect Lead at Microsoft. In this live interview at Microsoft Ignite 2019, he outlines the specific benefits of the new instances of SAP HANA and how it delivers value in concert with persistent memory. This includes flexibility regarding hardware deployment and configuration, allowing SAP HANA customers coverage previously not available with virtual machines, and faster, smoother experiences when restarts are required. For more about Microsoft and SAP HANA go to https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/sap/ Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the U.S. and/or other countries. Other names and brands may be claimed as the prop

In this episode of Intel Chip Chat, guest host Jake Smith interviews Phil Van De Mortel, IOT Sales Manager from Intel to discuss Intel’s story of IOT at the intelligent edge. This podcast was recorded at Microsoft Ignite in Orlando where Intel and Microsoft showcased some of the new services both companies are delivering at the intelligent edge. Intel and Microsoft are collaborating to make it easier for customers on a digital transformation journey, create and deploy IoT solutions. Intel embedded hardware combined with Microsoft IoT Edge and cloud software is enabling customers to scale and take advantage of IOT in the business world. Intel connected Logistics through IOT central is a great example of this. For more information on what Intel is doing at the intelligent edge, please visit https://https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/internet-of-things/overview.html Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Neuromorphic computing looks to the human brain and nervous system for inspiration. The brain is very good at perceiving information, learning from context, and inference. Understanding how the brain does something can inform how a computer could perform the same task. To be sure, neuromorphic computing isn’t biomimicry or about reconstructing the brain in silicon. Rather, it’s about understanding the processes and structures of neuroscience and using those insights to inform research, engineering, and technology. Those insights can help create a new generation of AI that’s better at seeing, learning, and solving problems. Mike Davies is the director of Intel’s Neuromorphic Computing Lab and a veteran neuromorphic computing engineer. He joined us to talk about neuromorphic computing, what it means to “spike” a neural network, and Intel’s Loihi, a neuromorphic research chip that contains over 130,000 “neurons.” For more about neuromorphic computing go to https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/research/neuro