The News: At its inaugural Intel Vision event, Intel announced advancements across silicon, software, and services, geared at showcasing how it brings together technologies and the ecosystem to unlock business value for customers today and in the future. Among the benefits highlighted across real-world examples are improved business results and insights, reduced total cost of ownership, and accelerated time to market and value. Read the Intel Press Release here.
Analyst Take: The news of Intel augmenting its silicon, software, and services offerings at its Intel Vision event is timely. These augmentations to Intel’s portfolio capabilties that can power ecosystem-wide digital transformation are exactly what customers need today. Intel’s key portfolio-wide announcements included:
Taken together, I see the Intel Vision announcements as validating the fact that Intel’s portfolio development approach now fully encompasses and flexibly integrates a three-pronged silicon, software, and services strategy. I believe major emerging applications such as AI workload optimization, clean energy, supercomputing, confidential computing, agricultural autonomy through private wireless networks, and augmented retail experiences all require a holistic silicon, software, and services blueprint to become more widely accepted and monetized across the digital ecosystem.
From my view, Intel also bolsters its overall portfolio vision with the companion launch of its in-development software infrastructure initiative Project Endgame, set for beta tests this year. Through Project Endgame, applications such as GPU workloads can capitalize on this software infrastructure layer to enable devices to use computing resources from other devices distributed across network fabrics to support the objective of continual, low-latency compute services.
Additionally, at the Intel Vision event Intel unveiled its Intel On Demand services aimed at supporting enterprises in optimizing their workload administration in accordance with fulfilling sustainability objectives. I anticipate that Intel’s alliances with key partners such as HPE GreenLake, Lenovo TruScale, and PhoenixNAP’s Bare Metal Cloud can help incentivize organizations to expand their consideration and adoption of consumption models for assuring their infrastructure requirements are more fully accorded with their business outcome goals.
The new portfolio advancements move Intel further away from its silicon-centric marketing roots to a more robust, more thorough ecosystem marketing vision, which I believe will become increasingly critical in order for the company to effectively compete long-term successfully against key silicon, software, and services rivals such as Arm, AMD, NVIDIA, and Marvell as well as an expanding array of home-grown chipsets, especially cloud silicon offerings like AWS (Graviton) and Azure (Ampere Altra Azure VMs).
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