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Intel Powers New Amazon EC2 Instance
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the general availability of the Amazon EC2 R6i instances powered by Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors. Today’s news follows two earlier Amazon announcements of its EC2 instances powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, the Amazon EC2 M6i and C6i instances. Designed for memory-intensive workloads, the R6i instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel …
Intel Teams with Snowflake
Intel welcomes Snowflake to the Intel® Disruptor Initiative Program. Working together, Intel and Snowflake provide customers with performance and increased flexibility across multiple public clouds with Snowflake’s Data Cloud using Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and Intel Xeon-based cloud instances. Snowflake’s Data Cloud runs on multiple cloud infrastructures, delivering virtually unlimited scale and concurrency. The high-performing …
Intel Innovation: Developer/oneAPI News
Intel returns to its developer roots, highlighting a renewed commitment to the community and a developer-first approach across software and hardware. Intel outlined key investments for developers, including a unified and more comprehensive Developer Zone, oneAPI 2022 toolkits, new oneAPI Centers of Excellence and its Universal Scalable Firmware initiative. All intended to improve access to …
Intel Innovation: Cloud-Edge Infrastructure News
Computing is spreading across heterogeneous fabrics of CPUs, GPUs, application accelerators, interconnect processors, edge-computing devices and FPGAs – all of which require persistent memory and software to bind these elements into a complete solution. The race is on to generate, store and analyze data at zettascale levels. It took over 12 years to get from petascale to exascale computing. Intel has challenged itself to make it to zetta in …
Intel Unveils 12th Gen Intel Core, Launches World’s Best Gaming Processor, i9-12900K
At Intel Innovation, Intel unveiled the 12th Gen Intel® Core™ processor family with the launch of six new unlocked desktop processors, including the world’s best gaming processor, the 12th Gen Intel Core i9-12900K. With a max turbo boost of up to 5.2 GHz and as many as 16 cores and 24 threads, the new desktop processors reach …
Broad Institute, Intel, Google Advance Biomedical Research
What’s New: As a result of an ongoing collaboration with Intel and Google Cloud to accelerate genomic research, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has optimized its workflows for fast, cost-effective Google N1 and N2 instances. Compared to the initial deployment of workloads on Google Cloud, the collaboration resulted in an 85% reduction in cost …
Intel, Nokia Accelerate Journey To Industry 4.0
Nokia announced the launch of the industry’s first industrial edge solution, Nokia MX Industrial Edge. It will allow enterprises to accelerate their operational technology digitalization initiatives and advance their journeys to Industry 4.0. The new solution is based on Nokia’s AirFrame Open Edge server, which leverages Intel’s latest innovations and central processing units (CPUs) for …
Intel Collaborates With Google Cloud To Accelerate Newest VMs
Today, Google Cloud announced the forthcoming public preview of its Computing Engine N2 machine family that is powered by 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors (code-named “Ice Lake”). Google Cloud’s N2 virtual machines (VMs) offer 30 percent better price-performance1 for a wide variety of workloads compared with the previous generation. Read the full announcement on Google …
Intel Oregon Fab Expansion Milestone: First Chipmaking Tool Rolls In
For most people, a tool is something you hold in your hand: pliers, hammer, screwdriver. Inside an Intel chip factory, a tool is a whole different deal. Fab tools are huge and hugely costly and take entire teams to muscle into place and install. As Intel aggressively ramps its worldwide manufacturing footprint, a construction milestone …
Esports Programs Help Students Transition To College And Gaming -Related Careers
Late last year, Intel signed a yearlong partnership with the High School Esports League (HSEL) to help schools across the U.S. establish esports programs and support high school competitive leagues. High school esports, a form of multiplayer competition using video games like Overwatch, Rocket League and Super Smash Bros, is now recognized as a competitive …