Intel joins hands with data center channel ecosystem partners to pool momentum and create a new future

Intel and Data Center Channel Ecosystem Partners Join Forces to Create a New Future

Kunming, January 11, 2022 - Today, the 2021 Intel China Data Center Channel Solutions Summit with the theme of "Integrating the New, Gathering Wisdom and Strength to Set Sail Again" was held in Kunming. At the meeting, Chen Baoli, Vice President of Intel's Marketing Group and General Manager of Data Center Sales in China, and Guo Wei, General Manager of Sales of Intel's Network and Edge Computing Division, respectively introduced Intel's channel development strategy, business progress and partner status in the data center, and emphasized the important value of channel business in Intel's overall data center business in China. During the period, more than 300 Intel solution experts, server system manufacturers, server system design manufacturers, independent software developers, etc. from all over the country gathered together to share the implementation results of Intel's product technologies in the fields of intelligent manufacturing, smart transportation, cloud games, ultra-high-definition live broadcast, etc.

Guo Wei, general manager of sales at Intel's Network and Edge Computing Group, said that supply shortages in the semiconductor supply chain have continued in the past two years, and the demand for accelerated digital transformation in all walks of life has become increasingly obvious under the test of the epidemic. Based on this, Intel has always insisted on deep cultivation and continuous aggregation of channel partners. It is committed to strengthening horizontal industrial chain cooperation, using standardized servers and solutions to meet the personalized needs of thousands of industries, and seeking a dynamic balance between horizontal and vertical needs.

The demand for semiconductors in the era of "digitalization of everything" has shown unprecedented growth. Based on this, Intel is committed to relying on the four super technical forces of "ubiquitous computing, ubiquitous connectivity, infrastructure from cloud to edge, and artificial intelligence" to create powerful computing power and the best products to promote innovation breakthroughs and digital transformation in the entire industry. In the field of data centers, Intel continues to focus on products, based on x86 and XPU, and continuously upgrades data-centric platform-level solutions to provide leading and inclusive computing power, and build a solid digital foundation across multiple fields such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and intelligent edge; at the same time, digital infrastructure has become a key driving force for the transformation of physical businesses at this stage, so it is necessary to advance product technology and actively embrace business needs from the source. Based on this, Intel puts the actual needs of users in the product development and design links, and through the internal and external environmental characteristics of different industries in various regions and a deep understanding of business scenarios, it works with ecological partners to jointly create high-value, universal, and easy-to-replicate scenario-based solutions based on Intel's data center product technology to enable agile innovation in various industries.

At the same time, since the traditional business cooperation model can no longer meet the needs of industrial development and customers in the intelligent era, only a close collaborative ecosystem can respond calmly. Based on this, in order to help the industry and partners grow at a higher value, adhering to the ecological development concept of "water benefits all things without competing", Intel regards building an ecosystem as its DNA, and further deepens the implementation of technology by continuously strengthening the data center partner ecosystem. Among them, the channel business is becoming an important part of the data center partner ecosystem through increasingly refined and large-scale development. Intel China's data center channel business has been in preparation since 2008. With the growing strength of the partner ecosystem, it has gradually expanded from the initial local customers to hardware OEMs and operating systems, databases, virtualization and other software providers in various vertical fields. The channel business successfully entered a stage of rapid growth in 2015. By 2019, the revenue of the entire data center channel department had reached US$1 billion. With the goal of aggregating new capabilities and building an all-round partner system, Intel's data center channel ecosystem welcomed the addition of local ODM partners in 2021. This not only improves the entire process from original design, building the entire system to integrating software and industry solutions in terms of business, but also realizes the full link of the channel ecosystem and builds an ecological industry chain. During this period, Intel also transformed from static professional support to dynamic ecological industry chain collaboration, from product technology to providing a broader platform and more opportunities, fully empowering channel ecosystem partners to accelerate innovation and application implementation.

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In the post-epidemic era, the demand for digital transformation has reached the peak of the entire industry, and technologies such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things have also entered a period of collaborative maturity. Based on this, Intel fully empowers data center channel ecosystem partners with leading product technology and strong software strength to strengthen partners' solution capabilities and stimulate their own potential, thereby enhancing the supply of industry ecosystems; at the same time, Intel continues to gather new energy to enhance the strong vitality of the data center channel ecosystem, so as to create a new future together with a strong ecosystem.