Intel Chip Chat

Lisa Spelman, Vice President & General Manager for Intel Xeon products and Data Center Marketing at Intel, joins Chip Chat to review all the big news from the recent Intel Data Centric Innovation Summit. In this interview, Spelman discusses Intel's view of data-centric computing and how our broad portfolio of silicon solutions will help customers move faster, store more, and process everything. For more on the Intel Data Centric Innovation Summit, please read Navin Shenoy's post "Innovating for the 'Data-Centric' Era" in the Intel Newsroom: https://newsroom.intel.com/editorials/data-centric-innovation-summit/. Footnotes Software and workloads used in performance tests may have been optimized for performance only on Intel microprocessors. Performance tests, such as SYSmark and MobileMark, are measured using specific computer systems, components, software, operations and functions. Any change to any of those factors may cause the results to vary. You should consult other information and performance tests to as

Jennifer Huffstetler, Vice President and General Manager for Data Center Product Marketing, Product Management, and Storage at Intel Corporation, joins Chip Chat to discuss developer and industry excitement for Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent Memory. Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory represents a rare opportunity to re-architect the storage hierarchy by bringing affordable, high-capacity memory closer to the CPU, accelerating workloads and speeding the delivery of applications. In this interview, Huffstetler speaks to the key benefits that Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory will deliver to end users and how Intel is working to support the development community to enable best use of this groundbreaking technology. Resources for Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory now have reached more than 100,000 developers and see more than 10,000 developer users each month. Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory will be available for first access by the end of 2018. For more information on Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory, please vis

In this episode of Chip Chat, Rob Herman, GM and Executive Director of Lenovo Workstations and Client AI explores the constantly evolving market for workstations, ranging from high-end, dual-processor systems to a new ThinkStation P330 Family, answering the need for a compact physical form factor with all the power of the new Intel® Xeon® E processors. Workstations serve a diverse audience ranging from traditional oil & gas, finance, media & entertainment to new areas in AI/AR/VR, 3D printing, and education. For more on the new ThinkStation P330 series of workstations go to www.thinkworkstations.com or follow Lenovo on Twitter at https://twitter.com/thinkstations

In this episode of Chip Chat, Rahul Tikoo, VP and GM of Commercial Client Specialty Products at Dell, joins us to talk about the latest additions to the Dell Precision 3000 workstation product family powered by the new Intel® Xeon® E processor. Rahul discusses how Dell views the workstation arena and the diverse set of customers that rely on continual performance and reliability, including media and entertainment, engineering and manufacturing, as well as oil and gas. Rahul shares that Dell is focusing on innovation in AR/VR and precision customer success. with Sony, Marvel and DNEG, all running on Intel® processors. To learn more about Dell’s new workstation go to www.dell.com/precision or follow Dell on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Dell

Lisa Spelman, Vice President & General Manager for Intel Xeon products and Data Center Marketing at Intel, joins Chip Chat for a special episode celebrating the 50th anniversary of Intel's founding. In this interview, Spelman and host Allyson Klein reflect on Intel's history of driving transformative technology innovations from the PC, to the Internet, to today's cutting-edge digital experiences and look ahead to how Intel will enable future computing paradigms for the data-centric era. For more information, please follow Spelman on Twitter at https://twitter.com/LisaSpelman and visit intel.com/datacenter.

Laurie Horenstein, a Program Manager for the Intel Foundation and Michael Hall, a Director in Data Center Group Marketing, join Chip Chat to talk about the Intel Employee Service Corps. IESC is a volunteer program started in 2009 where teams of 5-7 Intel employees are sent around the world to developing nations (and those recovering from natural disasters) to deploy technology and educational services. It’s a highly competitive program, with over 600 alumni donating time in more than 25 countries. Michael recently lead a team to Nepal that partnered with an NGO called Hands in Outreach to deploy laptops and the Waterford Early Learning software at three schools in the Kathmandu area. He gives a first-hand overview of the team’s trip. To learn more about Intel Employee Service Corps, visit: www.intel.com/foundation.

Frequent updates to its IT infrastructure have led to overall TCO reductions for Oath’s massive content delivery infrastructure. Hugo Gunnarsen, VP of Data Center Infrastructure and Performance Engineering at Oath, describes some of the factors in Oath’s TCO analysis. He also explains how staying on the leading edge of technology reduces TCO and the benefits that come from staying on-pace with server innovation like the Intel® Xeon® Scalable platform. Please visit Oath.com to learn more about Oath.

Visualizations serve the critical role of making complex data intelligible in a variety of industries. Jim Jeffers, Senior Director and Senior Principal Engineer, Visualization Solutions, at Intel, leads a team that develops three important open source libraries for data center rendering that deliver rasterization and ray tracing with high performance on Intel® Xeon® processors. Jim discusses the new Intel® Select Solutions for Professional Visualization that package up key software capabilities with the power of high performance computing (HPC) to provide stunning visualizations. For more information, visit https://software.intel.com/sdvis and intel.com/selectsolutions.

Video traffic growth continues unabated, representing the vast majority of global IP and mobile traffic. Lynn Comp, general manager of Intel’s Visual Cloud Division, joins Chip Chat to explain how more consumer choice with content, devices and location is changing the media, entertainment and broadcasting landscaping. The resulting convergence of new/traditional media, cloud, network transformation, edge computing and AI/Analytics creates new business opportunities. Learn how visual workloads are forcing change in how communication network and cloud infrastructure are architected, where computing resources are deployed and how Intel helps media, broadcasters, entertainment brands and over-the-top providers turn these challenges into advantages. You can follow Lynn on Twitter at @comp_lynn and find more information at www.Intel.com/VisualCloud

The network plays a critical role in IT transformation, as it connects data, apps and services to all parts of the infrastructure. But many enterprises struggle with the legacy of fixed-function network equipment which cannot provide the necessary speed, agility, and consistent application experience across multi-cloud environments. Bob Ghaffari of Intel explains how to choose the right solution for modernizing enterprise networks and make networking a strategic investment.