At MWC 2024, Intel announced new platforms, solutions, and services spanning network and edge AI, Core Ultra processors the AI PC, and more. The company said it would deliver products and solutions for its customers, partners, and an expansive ecosystem to capitalize on the emerging opportunities of AI and built-in automation, to improve total cost of ownership and operational efficiency, and to deliver new innovations and services.
“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,” said Sachin Katti, senior vice president and general manager of the Network and Edge Group at Intel. “Intel’s network- and edge-optimized SOC strategy uniquely integrates general purpose compute and acceleration for networking, AI, and vRAN workloads, and we are announcing market-leading next-generation products for 5G core with Sierra Forest and 5G vRAN with Granite Rapids-D.”
To help operators and developers build, train, optimize, and deploy AI models for vRAN use cases on general-purpose servers in their existing network footprint, Intel is introducing early availability of the vRAN AI Development Kit to select partners. Built on AI-optimized libraries, frameworks, and tools, the optimized AI models in the development kit, when combined with 4th Gen Xeon processors’ built-in AI acceleration, power management, and, enhanced telemetry capabilities, offer potential for operators to reconfigure their network dynamically to conceivably save costs, extract more value from infrastructure and support new revenue streams.
For operators, the company previewed its next-gen Xeon processor Sierra Forest which will launch later this year to expand Intel’s CPU roadmap by offering up to 288 efficient cores (E-cores) on a single chip. It is well-suited for 5G core workloads to advance network core performance and power savings. By utilizing E-core technology, operators will recognize greater energy and cost savings, driving a 2.7x performance per rack improvement and industry-leading performance per rack for 5G core workloads.
For additional power savings and energy efficiency, Intel announced the broad availability and industry adoption of the Infrastructure Power Manager software for 5G core. Infrastructure Power Manager enables operators to take advantage of the built-in telemetry of Xeon processors to reduce CPU power by an average of 30% while maintaining key telco performance metrics. Multiple operators are exploring lab trials for delivering carbon offset and TCO savings.
Intel’s Edge Platform has unique capabilities, including support for heterogeneous components for lower TCO and zero-touch, policy-based management of infrastructure and applications, and AI across a fleet of edge nodes with a single pane of glass. Additionally, AI runtime with OpenVINO inference is built-in to enable real-time AI inferencing optimization and dynamic workload placement within the infrastructure software for application deployment.
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