Intel Corp. offers a personal computer or PC platform for those who want the cream of the crop in artificial intelligence hardware.
Intel vPro is a professional-grade business PC platform, built for customers in the commercial sector. The product is aimed at users who want to run AI software at the highest level.
Intel’s Sarah Wieskus talks about running AI on Intel’s PC platform.
“You don’t get anything below an Ultra 5 or a 5 Series in a commercial grade system,” Sarah Wieskus (pictured), general manager of commercial client sales at Intel Corp. “Period, full stop. Then you have to have the Q series chipset, you have to have Wi-Fi 7. It’s a total package, and it’s the best of the best. And then there’s more security technology in vPro than there is [in] consumer.”
Wieskus spoke with theCUBE’s Dave Vellante and Savannah Peterson at Dell Technologies World, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, News Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed how Intel is developing hardware for AI. (* Disclosure below.)
A PC platform made for AI workloads
The computers built on vPro each have central, graphics and neural processing units. The GPUs run heavy-duty AI, while the relatively new NPU is for battery-efficient, constantly running AI.
“You get that flexibility to use all three engines instead of one at the highest level,” Wieskus said. “It’s really important then that we have software that takes advantage of all three … At Intel, we have 20,000 software developers working with the software ecosystem to make sure they can see all three of these engines and [that] they’re using them.”
One example of the flexibility Wieskus describes is that parts of a CPU’s workload — such as security scanning or collaboration software — could be offloaded onto the GPU or NPU. The PC platform also comes with remote access, which enabled vPro users to repair their PCs during the infamous IT outage in July 2024.
“At the highest level, customers value commercial grade over consumer grade, and they know that it’ll last them longer,” Wieskus said. “It is higher quality, and they just feel the benefit there and they’re willing to pay for that.”
Here’s the complete video interview, part of News’s and theCUBE’s coverage of Dell Technologies World:
(* Disclosure: Intel Corp. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Intel nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or News.)
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