Ep102: 500 Billion Connected Devices: Intel's Investment in improving Enterprise AI

Akanksha runs go-to-market team for Amazon at Intel

Personal and business devices transformed how we communicate

Forrester predicts 500 billion connected devices by 2026

5,000 billion sensors will be smartly connected online

40% of machines will communicate machine-to-machine

We're living in a world of data deluge

AI and Gen AI help make data effective

Goal is making businesses more profitable and effective

Various industries need Gen AI and data transformation

Intel advises companies as partners with AWS

Three factors determine which Gen AI use cases adopt

Factor one: availability and ease of use cases

How unique and important are they for business?

Does it have enough data for right analytics?

Factor two: purchasing power for Gen AI adoption

70% of companies target Gen AI but lack clarity

Leaders must ensure capability and purchasing power exist

Factor three: necessary skill sets for implementation

Need access to right partnerships if lacking skills

Intel and AWS partnered for 18 years since inception

Intel provides latest silicon customized for Amazon services

Engineer-to-engineer collaboration on each processor generation

92% of EC2 runs on Intel processors

Intel powers compute capability for EC2-based services

Intel ensures access to skillsets making cloud alive

AWS services include Bedrock, SageMaker, DLAMIs, Kinesis

Performance is the top three priorities for success

Not every use case requires expensive GPU accelerators

CPUs can power AI inference and training effectively

Every GPU has a CPU head node component