Intel highlighted its commitment to artificial intelligence (AI) across various sectors by unveiling innovative AI platforms, solutions, and services at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2024.
The event featured the latest Intel vPro processors for enterprise PCs, enhanced for superior AI processing capabilities. This announcement follows Intel’s recent presentation on advancements in contract chip manufacturing through its Intel Foundry business.
Over 65 key customers and partners showcased state-of-the-art systems designed to modernize and monetize future infrastructure, including hardware, software, and services.
Intel introduced the next-generation Intel Xeon processor, code-named Granite Rapids-D, incorporating integrated AI acceleration with validation alongside essential partners. The vPro offering specifically targets enterprise PC users.
In collaboration with 5G core software suppliers, Intel revealed its next-gen Intel Xeon processor for 5G core, known as Sierra Forest, boasting a remarkable 2.7x performance improvement per rack.
The Intel Edge Platform was presented as an open, modular software solution that enables enterprises to seamlessly build, deploy, and manage edge and AI solutions akin to cloud operations. The latest Intel vPro platform extends AI advantages to commercial applications.
As technology evolves, Intel seeks to empower its customers, partners, and the broader ecosystem with AI-driven solutions, focusing on enhancing total cost of ownership (TCO), operational efficiency, and fostering innovation.
“Intel is delivering innovations for our partners and their customers across network, edge, and enterprises to modernize their networks, monetize new services at the edge, and bring AI everywhere,” stated Sachin Katti, Senior Vice President of the Network and Edge Group at Intel. “Our network- and edge-optimized SOC strategy effectively integrates general-purpose compute and acceleration for networking, AI, and vRAN workloads, and we proudly announce our leading next-generation products for 5G core and vRAN with Sierra Forest and Granite Rapids-D.”
Intel vPro chips are set to introduce AI capabilities into enterprise PCs. The chipmaker showcased the 4th Gen Intel Xeon processors featuring Intel vRAN Boost (Sapphire Rapids EE), which can double the capacity for vRAN workloads compared to earlier models while reducing power consumption by 20%.
Intel also provided a preview of Granite Rapids-D, featuring advanced P-cores, promising substantial performance and power efficiency improvements for vRAN applications. Sampling is currently in progress, and Intel introduced the vRAN AI Development Kit to assist partners in building, training, optimizing, and deploying AI models tailored for vRAN.
The upcoming Intel Xeon processor Sierra Forest, expected to launch later this year, will utilize up to 288 Efficient-cores (E-cores) on a single chip to meet the demands of 5G core workloads with an emphasis on enhanced performance and energy efficiency. The company announced the forthcoming Intel Infrastructure Power Manager software, which enables operators to reduce CPU power usage by an average of 30% while ensuring critical telco performance metrics are upheld.
To address the evolving needs of enterprises at the edge, the Intel Edge Platform includes support for diverse components, policy-based management, and integrated AI runtime with OpenVINO inference. Drawing from Intel’s extensive experience with over 90,000 edge deployments, this platform will be widely available later this quarter.
On day two of MWC 2024, Intel and Microsoft are expected to announce new benefits of the AI PC for commercial designs, highlighting enhanced AI experiences and productivity solutions for businesses of all sizes.
Intel’s Programmable Solutions Group (PSG) will introduce two new radio macro and mMIMO Enablement Packages, along with Intel Precision Time Protocol Servo, delivering flexible, low-power, low-latency, high-throughput solutions for burgeoning sectors like vRAN, OpenRAN, 6G, and AI.
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