Intel is working hard to get its new ‘Intel Inside’ in “more than 100 million PCs through 2025.” An announcement on its Core Ultra processors is scheduled to take place on Dec. 14. The goal here is to get partners excited about launching the AI PC, which Intel promises would enhance user experience in the areas of “audio effects, content creation, gaming, security, streaming, video collaboration and more.”
In this gigantic effort, Intel is looking to bring into its platform as many diverse independent hardware vendors (IHVs) and independent software vendors (ISVs) to build new hardware and software capabilities in joint projects to maximize the use of AI with the Intel Core Ultra processor technologies.
The initiative has some sense of urgency within Intel, as competition has also shown a desire to be a major player in the PC space as advances continue to propel the AI environment at the forefront of the PC world. Intel said it is currently working with more than 100 ISVs and more than 300 AI-accelerated features, and named platforms and companies like Adobe, Audacity, BlackMagic, BufferZone, CyberLink, DeepRender, Fortemedia, MAGIX, Rewind AI, Skylum, Topaz, VideoCom, Webex, Wondershare Filmora, XSplit and Zoom, as taking part to the effort.
If you are an ITAD, what could be of interest to you is how Intel qualified the initiative. It called it: “a global innovation initiative designed to accelerate the pace of AI development across the PC industry.” And so for some, this may sound rather revolutionary.
Intel is offering its engineering skills to partners to optimize their software and applications to accommodate the developments taking place in Intel’s AI world. As of the participants, Audacity says it aims at offering “a new kind of creative environment for musicians, podcasters and audiophiles.” Cisco says its tools on Intel’s AI PC will “enhance the collaboration experience for our users and AI is critical to this”, as it is working to adapt Webex to the Intel project. CyberLink’s CEO says his company “is closely partnering with Intel on NPU enablement” with an eye on gaining benefits from integrated AI inference acceleration.
This Intel project is certainly part of the frenzied activity we’re witnessing in this second half of 2023 and which aims at positioning the competing tech firms for the 2024 AI onslaught. AI is enabling all of sort of technology advancements that we expect will change how tech is consumed, thereby affecting the outlook for the recycling and IT asset disposal sectors.
