Scenes From Intel's Data-Centric Excogitation Acme (Intc)

From The Register, August 8:

Intel: Yeah, yeah, 10nm. It's on the todo list. Now, let's verbalize most AI.

At Intel's Data-Centric Innovation Summit today inward Santa Clara, California, Chipzilla reiterated its commitment to deliver 10nm Xeon processors inward 2020, to keep its marketplace leadership, as well as to accommodate its silicon to AI-oriented workloads.

That'll endure the same 10nm that's manufacturing nightmares hampering the rollout of initial 10nm parts. Desktop processors using the long-awaited procedure node are due to drib dead inward in book inward 2019, as well as straightaway Xeon server CPUs the next yr – fingers crossed.

Over the by few hours, Intel's execs convey attempted to paint a rosy picture without 1 time mentioning their resurgent rival, AMD. They insisted Chipzilla is broadening its portfolio beyond the processor market. In theory, that would brand its fleck lithography woes less relevant.

Navin Shenoy, executive vice-president as well as full general managing director of Intel's information midpoint group, said the starting fourth dimension units of Intel's Optane DC persistent retention shipped on Tuesday, headed for Google to ability its cloud business. Optane DC, Intel claims, tin sack render eight-times the functioning of DRAM for roughly analytics queries.

Invited on stage, Bart Sano, platforms veep at Google, expressed appreciation for Intel's long partnership as well as eagerness to bear witness out the novel kit. "I can't hold back to drib dead this into the information midpoint to torture it," said Sano.

"And nosotros can't hold back for the starting fourth dimension checks," Shenoy replied....

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