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12:41PM EDT – (Technical error: keyboard is not working)
12:41PM EDT – High perf requirements mean that normally, only one or two clients could be run on a single workstation
12:40PM EDT – The game is Nightengale, a UE5 game
12:39PM EDT – Discussing debugging of networked clients
12:38PM EDT – Developer challenge 3: game development is complex and slow
12:38PM EDT – Chipotle will be deploying this Intel tech in a large market in the “coming months”
12:36PM EDT – Shuffle pans; AI picks up on the change
12:35PM EDT – Using Intel’s RealSense cameras to watch pans of food. OpenVINO used to classify things and how much there is
12:35PM EDT – 30% higher FPS in one afternoon
12:34PM EDT – Using OpenVINO for its flexibility in being able to run against GPUs or CPUs (rather than being limited to just GPUs)
12:33PM EDT – Continuing the subject of building AI models. Now with a guest speaker from PreciTaste
12:33PM EDT – (Just to be clear, Geti is a computer vision training system)
12:32PM EDT – Commercially available in Q4 of this year
12:32PM EDT – “Powerful AI for everyone”
12:32PM EDT – Launching today: Intel Geti
12:31PM EDT – Model can then be optimized with OpenVINO and deployed across datacenters
12:31PM EDT – Showing how the model performs so far, and how it’s flaws can be corrected
12:30PM EDT – Using active learning to cut down on the number of sample images required
12:29PM EDT – Showcasing how to build a CV model to maximize coffee bean yield
12:29PM EDT – An enterprise platform for collaborating on AI development
12:28PM EDT – Now on to AI model development
12:27PM EDT – Breaking news: Raptor Lake launches on October 20th. i9-13900K is $589
12:26PM EDT – Working to enable a holistic view of confidential computing
12:26PM EDT – (SGX seems to get compromised with some regularity)
12:25PM EDT – Demoing Intel SGX
12:25PM EDT – Now on to security
12:25PM EDT – 10.8x speed-up on SPR versus using FP32
12:24PM EDT – Running on Sapphire Rapids
12:24PM EDT – Converted a PyTorch model from FP32 to INT8
12:24PM EDT – The Neural Compressor with Neural Coder
12:23PM EDT – Intel has a tool to help with no-code solutions
12:23PM EDT – Development cycles are too slow
12:23PM EDT – Intel’s first challenge: speeding up development cycles
12:21PM EDT – The Dev Cloud is current in a limited beta, but Intel is intending to expand that
12:21PM EDT – Which Intel uses to showcase some of their latest technologies
12:21PM EDT – We’ll hear more about this in Greg’s session tomorrow: the Intel Developer Cloud
12:20PM EDT – She’s just 18
12:20PM EDT – Shifting gears, bringing on stage Intel’s AI Ethics Lead Architect, Ria Cheruvu
12:18PM EDT – So putting it up against the NVIDIA RTX 3060 and AMD RX 66xx parts
12:18PM EDT – Cards on the way to reviewers now
12:18PM EDT – Available October 12th at $329
12:17PM EDT – Now rolling a demo video
12:17PM EDT – 65% better RT performance than the unspecified competitiomn
12:17PM EDT – Intel Arc A770 GPU
12:17PM EDT – “Today we’re fixing that”
12:17PM EDT – Paraphrasing: the price of gaming GPUs is too damned high
12:17PM EDT – But you can’t talk about GPUs without talking about gaming
12:16PM EDT – Intel is delivering those blades now
12:16PM EDT – PVC and Sapphire Rapids with HBM are the computing brains behind the Aurora supercomputer
12:16PM EDT – Pat also has a Ponte Vecchio package in his hand
12:15PM EDT – For inference, training, AI, VDI, video encoding. Everything GPUs are used for today in servers
12:15PM EDT – Flex 170 and Flex 140
12:15PM EDT – Announcing the Intel Data Center GPU Flex series
12:15PM EDT – Now on to GPUs
12:15PM EDT – The only thing Pat didn’t do in his previous stint at Intel: high-performance graphics
12:14PM EDT – High-perf computing requires vector and matrix processing
12:14PM EDT – Now on to graphics and accelerated computing
12:14PM EDT – Looking to develop the semiconductor talent pool of tomorrow
12:13PM EDT – Intel is also scaling up their university shuttle program. The goal: 100x
12:12PM EDT – Part of Intel’s $1B IFS innovation fund is for startups and disruptive technologies
12:12PM EDT – Intel is emphasizing the “universal” part of UCIe
12:12PM EDT – Which starts with a statement from TSMC
12:11PM EDT – Now rolling a video about UCIe
12:11PM EDT – “We’re going to bring all of those pieces together”
12:11PM EDT – Investing heavily in the UCIe chiplet ecosystem
12:10PM EDT – “Software defined, silicon enhanced”
12:09PM EDT – A Systems Foundry offers wafers, advanced packaging, chiplets, and software
12:09PM EDT – Now talking about the idea of a Systems Foundry
12:09PM EDT – With their previously announced Tower Semi acquisition, it gives Intel a significant bredth in capabilities
12:08PM EDT – Intel will continue to work to grow capacity and demand
12:08PM EDT – “We will not rest until the periodic table is exhausted”
12:08PM EDT – Expecting first 18A test chip tape-out before the end of the year
12:07PM EDT – Making process on Intel’s “5 nodes in 4 years” development plan
12:07PM EDT – Going from 100B transistors today on a single package to 1T transistors by the end of the decade
12:07PM EDT – Pat reiterates that he doesn’t consider Moore’s Law to be dead
12:07PM EDT – At the heart of chip fabbing is Moore’s Law
12:06PM EDT – Which brings us to Intel Foundry Services
12:06PM EDT – It also changes how Intel thinks about their business and chip design
12:06PM EDT – An example of a sensory device today. A device that makes his life better
12:05PM EDT – Pat shows off his hearing aid
12:05PM EDT – Oh? He’s added a 5th superpower. Sensing is new to the list
12:04PM EDT – Compute, connectivity, cloud-to-edge infrastructure, AI, and sensing
12:04PM EDT – Pat is reiterating his “superpowers” analogy
12:04PM EDT – “We continue to witness the magic of technology”
12:03PM EDT – “We are in a new era”
12:03PM EDT – (Pat’s shirt is “geek” in ASCII binary)
12:02PM EDT – News today on hardware, software, chip design, security, and more
12:02PM EDT – Pat is starting with reiterating Intel’s focus on open ecosystems and a developer-first approach
12:01PM EDT – This keynote is slated to run for 1 hour
12:01PM EDT – “We’re going to have a great event together now”
12:01PM EDT – Starting with Pat Gelsinger
12:01PM EDT – And here we go
12:01PM EDT – Expected subjects today inclue Raptor Lake, Sapphire Rapids, Intel’s enterprise GPU efforts, and more
12:00PM EDT – And this keynote should be kicking off momentarily
12:00PM EDT – Meanwhile, on screenshot duty is the always-awesome Gavin Bonshor
11:59AM EDT – We’ll see if the prices are accurate. But at this point they seem realistic
11:59AM EDT – Complete with prices
11:59AM EDT – Newegg posted Intel 13th Gen Core (Raptor Lake) processors for sale earlier this morning
11:58AM EDT – But first, a spoiler:
11:58AM EDT – Being an in-person event, this should be a more leisurely paced event than the kind of rapid-fire keynotes we’ve seen during the pandemic
11:57AM EDT – Ryan here, in both senses of the word. Intel is hosting this year’s event as an in-person function at the San Jose Convention Center, my home away from home
With AMD’s big Ryzen 7000 launch having only taken place just yesterday, Intel is expected to showcase its next generation of products for consumers. Leading the keynote will be visionary Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, with talks also expected from CTO and SVP Greg Lavender and founder and CEO of Landing AI, Dr. Andrew Ng.
The live blog will start with the opening keynote from Intel Innovation at 9am PT / 16:00 UTC / 18:00 CEST.
