AI Accelerators power Intel Xeon 5 & 6 processors for enterprise AI

Regardless that artificial intelligence seeks to supply a technological and societal transformation, the journey from idea to implementation is at times a frightening task, creating a robust case for AI accelerators. 

To power AI solutions, Intel Corp. integrates AI accelerators into Xeon 5 and 6 scalable processors, with Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. acting as a serious catalyst on this objective, in response to Greg Ernst (pictured), corporate vp of sales and marketing and general manager of Americas sales at Intel. 

“We announced Xeon 5 just six months ago,” Ernst said. “We’re in high production, we’re shipping hundreds of thousands of units, after which at Computex two weeks ago, we announced Xeon 6, which is that next generation. Each families integrate advanced matrix software into it. It’s an AI accelerator built into Xeon. Great partners like HPE are keeping pace with us and rolling out, like within the case of HPE, their HPE ProLiant DL380 will support each families.”

Ernst spoke with theCUBE Research’s Dave Vellante and Rebecca Knight at HPE Discover, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed how Intel is accelerating the AI wave through AI accelerators. (* Disclosure below.)

Intel boosts AI advantage with simplified AI accelerators

Since firms that embrace AI are pulling ahead, Intel simplifies this journey through AI accelerators. Intel also intends to enable enterprises to have a competitive advantage through an AI continuum, Ernst identified. 

“What we’ve done is make implementing AI into the enterprise workflows easier,” he noted. “That’s what we get up day by day doing. How can we work with standard bodies? How can we work with the OEMs and what ecosystems can we create? At Intel, we imagine on this AI continuum where for each persona type and each vertical, there’ll be dedicated AI workflows.”

As AI use cases proceed gaining steam in firms, providing the much-needed technology to power the AI revolution is of the essence. Consequently, Intel enhances the AI wave through its processors, in response to Ernst. 

“We all the time challenge ourselves to do more, but one among the things that we recognized is one among the good things that the industry has created is that this x86 software instruction set,” he stated. “That enables developers to jot down, whether it’s for PC, CPUs, edge, data center, really leveraged that x86 architecture. What we recognized as an organization several years ago is we’re going to construct on top of that with AI accelerators into each one among our product lines.”

Here’s the whole video interview, a part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE Research’s coverage of HPE Discover: 

(* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for HPE Discover. Neither Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. and Intel Corp., the first sponsors of theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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