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- Intel® Optane™ Technology and Dell EMC PowerMax: The Revolution in Enterprise Storage
- The next revolution in storage--well it’s like déjà vu all over again. In my 20+ years in data center technologies, and in storage in particular, it can feel like a constant game of chasing the data bottleneck. We solve one challenge, just to move to the next bottleneck in line, and then repeat that process...
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- Mozilla Shows How Intel-backed Open Source Codecs are Transforming Online Video
- At last year’s International Broadcasting Convention, Intel announced efforts to improve widely used codecs. Our initial work focused on Scalable Video Technology (SVT) architecture, an encoder core library that enables multiple codec generations (HEVC, AV1, and VP9). We began work on an SVT-AV1 open source encoder core library, an alternative implementation to the AV1 reference...
read more - IBC2019 Will Be Livestreamed in 8k 360° VR
- IBC in Amsterdam is the one of the most, if not the most, influential conferences for global media. The new technologies unveiled at the event shape the future of entertainment for years to come. This year, Intel and several partners are coming together to showcase what that future will look like by presenting the first...
read more - CVAT: Speeding Up Image Annotation since 2018
- We began the Computer Vision Annotation Tool (CVAT) project a few years ago in order to speed up the annotation of digital images and videos for use in training computer vision algorithms. When we started, we didn’t have a unified approach to image annotation. Annotation tasks were done using our own set of tools, mainly...
read more - Driving 5G and a Smart World Through a Collaborative Ecosystem
- The power and promise of collaboration were on full display at the Smart China Expo this week, as Intel and our partners and customers demonstrated the momentum of 5G as it enables a smart, connected world. The expo delivered beautifully on its theme, “Smart Technology: Empowering Economy, Enriching Life,” and we at Intel are proud...
read more - Unlocking Lower Total Cost of Ownership for Visual Cloud Services
- The visual cloud market comes with an interesting set of challenges. On one side there’s the passion and struggle of artists to create something—a show, a movie, a game, a live experience. On the other side there’s the work of promoting that material to a vast consumer audience inundated with options and whose tastes can...
read more - Apache* MXNet* v1.5.0 Gets a Lift with Intel® DL Boost
- The Apache MXNet community recently announced the v1.5.0 release of the Apache MXNet* deep learning framework. This version of Apache MXNet introduces a series of new features and optimizations targeting CPU backends, including: Subgraph API and operator fusion Model quantization and lower precision (INT8) inference Integration of the new fused-RNN kernels Support the Horovod*-based distributed...
read more - In conversation with Physical Design Engineer Azman Mohamed Eusoff
- After a rocky start, curiosity and perseverance led Azman to success Azman Mohamed joined Intel Malaysia as a junior physical design engineer. At the time, taking on the role was both a major challenge and an opportunity. He came from an electrical engineering background and moving into the realm of physical electronic-based design required a...
read more - Streamline Your Hybrid Cloud Journey with VMware Cloud Foundation on Dell EMC VxRail & Intel® Optane™ SSDs
- Global digital transformation is here, and making the move to the public cloud and maintaining cost-effective private cloud infrastructure can be challenging for today’s IT community. Developers and data managers continually reassure their organizations that the systems and tools they build, maintain, and upgrade are fast, safe, and reliable—serving their users as promised, day after...
read more - Manage & Monetize Exponential Data Growth with Intel’s Data Management Platform
- Abstract The exponential growth of data is creating scaling and cost challenges. Not being able to scale storage and compute resources independently results in suboptimal resource utilization of data center infrastructure investments. Customers need to solve for this while controlling their licensing costs. They also need to perform real-time analytics on their ever-growing data sets....
read more - “Be Inclusive, Be Complete”: Intel Diverse Abilities Network Launched in Intel Malaysia
- July 22 marked the beginning of an important milestone for Intel Malaysia as we embarked upon our Intel Diverse Abilities Network (IDAN) journey. The vision of IDAN is to make the world a better place for people with diverse abilities by doing three things: influencing innovation, fostering an inclusive environment, and empowering individuals to realize...
read more - Conquering the ‘Mother of All Relay Races’ – Blind
- United in Stride, the first relay team of blind and visually impaired runners, make Hood to Coast history with the help of two Intel employees. An almost impossible feat Darryl Adams was a key member of a team that spent last weekend running 200 miles along the mountainous path from Mt. Hood to the Oregon...
read more - Google and Intel Announce New Hybrid Cloud Solutions
- Fulfilling the promise made earlier this year as part of a larger strategic collaboration, Intel and Google released the new Intel® Select Solutions for Google Cloud’s Anthos optimized for 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors. Hybrid cloud is an essential part of most modern business infrastructure as organizations balance performance, TCO, legacy applications, security and...
read more - Intel and VMware Launch Hybrid Cloud Solution for AI
- Hybrid cloud opens the door to extract more value from data when new silicon-enabled artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are paired with software-defined infrastructure (SDI) that operates seamlessly from the edge to the data center core to the cloud. Intel and VMware are further strengthening their strategic partnership to make this hybrid cloud vision a reality...
read more - Delivering on the Promise of Real-World Reinforcement Learning
- Reinforcement learning (RL)—the branch of artificial intelligence (AI) that deals with sequential decision making to maximize rewards in an environment—is an exciting area of AI. It has already made great progress in complex game settings, where RL-trained models have defeated world champions at strategic games such as Go and StarCraft. It has also delivered early...
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