Windows 10: Top Five Intel Platform Innovations Driving the Next Wave of Computing

Brink · May 29, 2019

Intel Optane memory M15 introduces a new class of memory, featuring higher performance and lower power usage than in previous generation. Intel’s Technology Open House at Computex 2019 in Taipei, Taiwan, on Wednesday, May 29, 2019, showcases platform innovations and partnerships that will help people focus, unleash their creativity and engage with their communities. (Credit: Intel Corporation)

Intel NUC Compute Element delivers a modular computing solution to bring compute and connectivity to solutions like laptops, kiosks, smart TVs, appliances and more. Intel’s Technology Open House at Computex 2019 in Taipei, Taiwan, on Wednesday, May 29, 2019, showcases platform innovations and partnerships that will help people focus, unleash their creativity and engage with their communities. (Credit: Intel Corporation)

Intel, ASUS and Microsoft partner to launch the first AI on PC development kit, featuring a powerful combination of an Intel Core CPU, Intel Integrated Graphics and an Intel Movidius Myriad X VPU. Intel’s Technology Open House at Computex 2019 in Taipei, Taiwan, on Wednesday, May 29, 2019, showcases platform innovations and partnerships that will help people focus, unleash their creativity and engage with their communities. (Credit: Intel Corporation)

Today at Computex 2019 in Taipei, Taiwan, Intel showcased how its products and technologies enable the full PC experience for today and the future – spanning hardware and software innovation, new prototype laptops, artificial intelligence (AI), ambient computing, modular computing and more.
“Intel’s long history of delivering leadership performance, driving deep co-engineering and scaling new designs will accelerate platform innovation and put a new class of compute performance and intelligence in people’s hands. At Computex, Intel is demonstrating its ability to create the platform of the future, with key initiatives such as Project Athena bringing AI to the PC and continuing to lead the way in transforming the PC ecosystem.”
–Jim Johnson, Intel corporate vice president and general manager of Client Engineering
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Intel is trailblazing the future of powerful, ambient and seamless computing by harnessing the explosion of data to ensure the PCs of today are equipped for the experiences and workloads of tomorrow. The data-centric future demands new platforms that enable devices to be smarter and adaptable so people can focus, create and engage in more meaningful ways.

Here are the top five advancements that Intel showcased during its Technology Open House at Computex:

1. Experience-Led Prototypes Drive the Future of Laptop Innovation

Driving form-factor innovation into high-performance systems, Intel demonstrated a new form factor concept (code-named “Honeycomb Glacier”) to enable new experiences for gamers and creators. The Honeycomb Glacier concept features an integrated companion display for more screen real estate to game and create, all in a laptop. The design powers more immersive gaming experiences by making key information persistent on the companion screen to access things like level maps, inventories, status and more with no applications overlapping your game play or switching between applications. The companion display also enables simultaneous gaming and streaming, giving streamers the chance to interact with their audience real time without sacrificing their game play.

Intel is collaborating with OEMs to bring to market companion display systems based on this visionary concept and powered by the latest 9th Gen Intel® Core™ mobile processors, with the first being the ASUS ZenBook Pro Duo with ScreenPad Plus.

Additionally, with new laptops coming with Wi-Fi 6, connecting to a network delivers the best Wi-Fi experience. Intel showcased new Wi-Fi 6 home routers and gateways powered by Intel technology from AVM*, Edimax*, Elecom*, NETGEAR* and TP-Link* that are launching this year.

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2. First Ambient Compute Concept PC

Intel is enabling a computing experience that will be increasingly immersive, connected and intelligent. In the future, PCs must adapt to people’s needs by being always on, always aware, always sensing and intelligently notifying. Providing an early look at how computing will evolve, the company demonstrated the Intel ambient PC prototype (code-named “Mohawk River”) to show how the laptop can:

Be always ready and proactively adapting to users.

Anticipate user needs and commands by leveraging human presence sensors, 180-degree cameras, exterior secondary displays and Intel local voice ID.

Connect with people using closed-lid intelligence, allowing for seamless transition from open lid to closed lid and back again.

Continue working efficiently, getting relevant information and staying connected even with the lid closed when in transition.

Amplify planned or adhoc meetings with 360 video conferencing.

Intel also demonstrated how it is implementing a human presence approach using hands-free login with Windows Hello* and Intel® Context Sensing Technology to deliver advanced laptop experiences that help people focus, be always ready and adapt to different roles throughout the day.

3. Introducing the First AI on PC Dev Kit

Software, development tools, operating systems and hardware are all undergoing rapid changes to take advantage of deep learning technologies and other modern AI techniques. AI will also change the way people interact with and use their PCs, including huge leaps in productivity, dynamic performance enhancements, auto content editing and more.

Intel announced a collaboration with Microsoft* and Asus* to launch the world’s first AI on PC Development Kit, delivering a brand-new laptop form factor featuring the latest AI software and hardware technologies to put developers at the cutting edge of AI application development.

Available starting July 2019, the dev kit contains a powerful combination of an Intel Core CPU and Intel® Integrated Graphics, and, for the first time, an Intel® Movidius™ Myriad™ X VPU for high-performance, low-power AI workloads. The three hardware engines will run a diverse range of AI workloads to deliver a comprehensive breadth of raw AI capability for laptops today.

The AI on PC Development Kit will also include a suite of pre-installed software that will enable developers to go from idea to creation right out of the box, including the newest Windows ML* libraries, the cross-platform Intel OpenVINO™ toolkit, and all of the necessary supporting tools for end-to-end AI application development on PC.

4. The Next Stage in Modular Computing

Modular computing remains a key opportunity for industry growth by enabling new opportunities for device manufacturers, PC-makers and anyone providing computing solutions in the industry to integrate compute and connectivity into everything, including consumer, business and industrial applications.

Today, Intel announced the Intel® NUC Compute Element, which enables an industry standard for modular compute utilizing Intel Architecture and standard compute technologies and interfaces. The device incorporates an Intel CPU, memory, connectivity and other components and is capable of powering solutions like laptops, kiosks, smart TVs, appliances and more. The Intel NUC Compute Element delivers incredible performance and amazing connectivity at a low cost while making it easy to integrate, upgrade and service computing in next-generation devices. One partner taking advantage of these benefits is JP*, which is integrating the compute element into a JP laptop focused on higher education, teachers and administrators. By creating its design around the compute element, JP is able to offer a wide range of performance options with a single product design, lowering costs and increasing its product offerings.

The initial NUC Compute Element will be available with a range of processors, including versions with Intel vPro™ technology for increased security and manageability. Products based on the Intel NUC Compute Element are expected to be in market in the first half of 2020.

5. Intel Optane Establishes a New Class of Memory
Intel announced Intel® Optane™ memory M15, a new generation of Intel Optane memory. Available in 2019’s third quarter, Intel Optane memory M15 features higher performance and lower power than the previous generation. Combined with the 9th Gen Intel Core mobile and desktop platforms, people will experience short boot times, fast application launches, and fast gaming and browsing.

This builds on the launch of Intel Optane memory H10 with solid state storage – an innovative device that combines the responsiveness of Intel Optane technology with the storage capacity of Intel® Quad Level Cell (QLC) 3D NAND technology in a single space-saver M.2 form factor. The combination of high-speed acceleration and large SSD storage capacity on a single drive will benefit everyday PC users, whether they use their systems to create, game or work, enabling both faster access to frequently used applications and files and better responsiveness with background activity.
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Source: COMPUTEX 2019: Top Five Intel Platform Innovations Driving the Next Wave of Computing | Intel Newsroom

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Brink · May 29, 2019

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Guru Kiran G · May 29, 2019

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Brink · May 29, 2019

Intel and Alibaba Cloud launched a Joint Edge Computing Platform

What’s New: At The Computing Conference 2018 hosted by Alibaba Group* in Hangzhou, China, Intel and Alibaba revealed how their deep collaboration is driving the creation of revolutionary technologies that power the era of data-centric computing – from hyperscale data centers to the edge, to accelerate the deployments of new applications such as autonomous vehicles and Internet of Things (IoT).
“Alibaba’s highly innovative data-centric computing infrastructure supported by Intel technology enables real-time insight for customers from the cloud to the edge. Our close collaboration with Alibaba from silicon to software to market adoption enables customers to benefit from a broad set of workload-optimized solutions.”
– Navin Shenoy, Intel executive vice president and general manager of the Data Center Group
What the Headlines are: Intel and Alibaba Group are:

Launching of a Joint Edge Computing Platform to accelerate edge computing development

Establishing the Apsara Stack Industry Alliance targeting on-premises enterprise cloud environments

Deploying latest Intel technology in Alibaba to prepare for the 11/11 shopping festival

Bringing volumetric content to the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 via OBS Cloud

Accelerating the commercialization intelligent roads

“We are thrilled to have Intel as our long-term strategic partner, and are excited to expand our collaboration across a wide array of areas from edge computing to hybrid cloud, Internet of Things and smart mobility,” said Simon Hu, senior vice president of Alibaba Group and president of Alibaba Cloud. “By combining Intel’s leading technology services and Alibaba’s experience in driving digital transformation in China and the rest of Asia, we are confident that our clients worldwide will benefit from the technology innovation that comes from this partnership.”

How They Accelerate on the Edge: Intel and Alibaba Cloud launched a Joint Edge Computing Platform that allows enterprises to develop customizable device-to-cloud IoT solutions for different edge computing scenarios, including industrial manufacturing, smart building and smart community, among others. The Joint Edge Computing Platform is an open architecture that integrates Intel software, hardware and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies with Alibaba Cloud’s latest IoT products. The platform utilizes computer vision and AI to convert data at the edge into business insights. The Joint Edge Computing Platform was recently deployed in Chongqing Refine-Yumei Die Casting Co., Ltd. (Yumei) factories and was able to increase defect detection speed five times from manual detection to automatic detection.

How They Drive Hybrid Cloud Solutions: Intel and Alibaba Cloud established the Apsara Stack Industry Alliance, which focuses on building an ecosystem of hybrid cloud solutions for Alibaba Cloud’s Apsara Stack. Optimized for Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, the Apsara Stack provides large- and medium-sized businesses with on-premises hybrid cloud services that function the same as hyperscale cloud computing and big data services provided by Alibaba public cloud. This alliance will also enable small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to access technologies, infrastructure and security on par with that of large corporations, while offering them a path to greater levels of automation, self-service capabilities, cost efficiencies and governance.

How They Power eCommerce: In preparation for the upcoming 11/11 “Singles Day” global shopping festival – which generated in excess of 168.2 billion yuan ($25 billion) in spending during the 2017 celebration – Alibaba plans to trial the next-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and upcoming Intel® Optane® DC persistent memory with Alibaba’s Tair workload. This workload is a key value data access and caching storage system developed by Alibaba and broadly deployed in many of Alibaba’s core applications such as Taobao and Tmall. Intel’s compute, memory and storage solutions are optimized for Alibaba’s highly interactive and data-intensive applications. These applications require the infrastructure to keep large amounts of hot accessible data in the memory cache to achieve the desired throughput (queries per second) in order to deliver smooth and responsive user experiences, especially during peak hours of the 11/11 shopping festival.

How They Accelerate the Olympics’ Digital Transformation: Also announced was a partnership aimed at advancing the digital transformation of the Olympics and delivering volumetric content over the OBS Cloud for the first time at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. As worldwide Olympic partners, Intel and Alibaba Cloud, will collaborate with OBS to explore a more efficient and reliable delivery pipeline of immersive media to RHBs worldwide that will improve the fan experience and bring them closer to the action via Intel’s volumetric and virtual reality technologies. This showcases the depth of Intel’s end-to-end capabilities, including the most advanced Intel Xeon Scalable processors powering OBS Cloud, compute power to process high volumes of data, and technology to create and deliver immersive media.

How They Accelerate the Commercialization of Intelligent Roads: Intel officially became one of Alibaba AliOS’ first strategic partners of the intelligent transportation initiative, aiming to support the construction of intelligent road traffic network and build a digital and intelligent transportation system to realize vehicle-road synergy. Intel and Alibaba will jointly explore v2x usage model with respect to 5G communication and edge computing based on the Intel Network Edge Virtualization Software Development Kit (NEV SDK).

More Context: Intel and Alibaba Cloud Deliver Joint Computing Platform for AI Inference at the Edge
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Source: Alibaba and Intel Transforming Data-Centric Computing from Hyperscale Data Centers to the Edge | Intel Newsroom

Windows 10: Top Five Intel Platform Innovations Driving the Next Wave of Computing

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