2023 Network and Edge Industry Summit: Intel and industry partners unlock the unlimited potential of network and edge

The 2023 and Edge Industry Summit kicked off today. More than 300 ecological partners and customers gathered together with Intel to showcase the wonderful results of accelerating the integration of computing and network and promoting digital transformation in the network and edge fields. At the meeting, Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Network and Edge Division Sachin Kat, Intel Corporate Vice President and General Manager of the Network and Edge Solutions Division Dan Rodriguez and Intel Vice President and General Manager of the Network and Edge Division in China Dr. Chen Wei introduced Intel's global and Chinese strategies, progress and ecological construction in the network and edge fields, and reiterated the important position of the Chinese market in the development of Intel's network and edge business. In addition, several speakers from different fields of Intel's Network and Edge Division also focused on the unique environment of the Chinese market and shared the digital and intelligent construction achievements that Intel has achieved with Chinese partners in the fields of education, smart communities, finance, transportation, retail, medical care, and conference collaboration.

Looking at the global market, edge computing is boundless, with a market opportunity of up to $445 billion. Intel has been working closely with ecosystem partners, including Chinese companies, to promote software-defined transformation from cloud to network to edge through a wide range of innovative software product portfolios, optimize customers' experience in the process of developing, deploying, operating, managing, connecting to protecting distributed edge infrastructure, and jointly promote the deployment of edge solutions in many fields such as retail, medical, industrial, manufacturing, energy, and smart cities, thereby accelerating the digital transformation of all industries.

——Sachin Katti

Senior Vice President, Intel Corporation

General Manager of Network and Edge Business Unit

Edge

Overcoming the challenges of digital transformation

After the epidemic, affected by supply chain constraints, labor/talent shortages, rising energy costs, inflation and economic recession, enterprises are accelerating the digital and intelligent transformation of their businesses by using artificial intelligence to process data at the edge in order to improve competitiveness and reduce total costs. This brings huge market opportunities for edge computing. According to research institutions, by 2025, 75% of the data generated by enterprises will be created and processed outside traditional data centers or clouds; by 2026, 50% of edge deployments will involve; 86% of edge developers will target AI-based applications; and edge AI reasoning will be three times that of data centers.

Although edge AI can help enterprises achieve business transformation through local data processing, enterprises still face many challenges in deploying edge AI due to insufficient infrastructure, data silos, and remote operations. For more than a decade, Intel has largely addressed these challenges by creating an innovative software and hardware product portfolio, making important contributions to promoting the digital transformation of real-world infrastructure.

To promote sustainable digital transformation in all industries, Intel is also helping industries achieve efficient and low-carbon development by creating full-scenario cloud-edge-end solutions.

At present, the digital economy has become an important support for high-quality economic development. As China's economic development stabilizes and strengthens, artificial intelligence and sustainable development have become the driving force for economic structural transformation. Intel will continue to support the implementation of industry scenarios, and by practicing the concept of green development, continue to drive the green development of PCs and data centers, as well as the deployment of "dual carbon" industry applications at the smart edge, so as to actively build a sustainable and digital future.

--Wang Zhicong

Vice President of Marketing Group, Intel Corporation

General Manager of China

At the same time, Intel also provides ecosystem partners with the complete stack needed to deploy edge AI: not only does it bring reusable and proven solutions to the ecosystem, it also establishes and develops scalable open standards while providing support through edge-optimized, other accelerators, and high-speed networks.

Innovative software and hardware

Unlock the unlimited potential of the network and edge

To expand the scale of digital transformation in all industries, Intel has been continuously launching a software-defined, hardware-software product portfolio from cloud networks to mobile and telecommunications networks, from managed edge to network edge to local edge, including:

13th Gen Intel® Core™ series with more cores, faster memory, and Time Coordinated Computing (TCC) and Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) capabilities for real-time compute-intensive edge use cases such as immersive walls;

The Intel® Atom® x7000E series, Intel® Core™ i3 processors, and Intel® processor N series deliver more energy-efficient performance for edge-native applications for use cases such as retail signage, kiosks, point-of-sale systems, portable medical imaging devices, and office;

●Intel's 4th generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors are also optimized for high-performance, low-latency network and edge workloads. The 4th generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors with integrated AN Boost integrate acceleration capabilities, which can provide twice the capacity without increasing power consumption and save up to 20% of energy consumption compared to the previous generation, thus meeting key performance, expansion and energy efficiency requirements.

In addition to hardware, Intel has also been continuously investing in software:

Intel’s Intel® Infrastructure Server Reference Software for 5G Core reduces average CPU power consumption by 30 percent during runtime, which helps lower total cost of ownership and accelerates the achievement of net-zero emissions.

Intel’s FlexRAN reference software for VRAN has hundreds of licensees and counting.

●Intel has been continuously updating and iterating software tools represented by OpenVINO, and this year released a new and more powerful version of Intel® OpenVINO™ 2023.0. This version provides broader model support for generative artificial intelligence, including support for Stable Diffusion;

●The previously launched Intel® Geti™ AI platform has also been open for testing to some early ecosystem partners.

At the summit, Intel also released the second-generation Intel® NetSec Accelerator Card reference design. This new accelerator card is built on the Intel® Xeon® D series processor, and innovatively designs an x86 server into a smart network card form factor, which can significantly reduce the system's space occupancy and power consumption. The first product based on the Intel® NetSec Accelerator Card reference design will be mass-produced and launched by partners, allowing customers to enjoy a safer, more reliable, more flexible and more efficient intelligent computing experience while meeting software-defined, automated and elastic expansion to the greatest extent.

In addition, Intel has been promoting the creation of software-defined autonomous industrial solutions that integrate automation, digitization, and intelligence into a closed loop. From the perspective of equipment management, maintenance, and flexible deployment of loads, Intel's RN™, as a load integration virtualization solution that can simultaneously meet the coexistence of different OSs and ensure automated real-time performance, has been used by many devices in their products and has received very positive feedback. To further help customers improve the efficiency of industrial application load integration, Intel launched the rapid construction of the ACRN™ virtualization solution based on this summit. Combined with hardware products from ODMs including Xinbu, customers can directly experience booting up multiple OS systems while purchasing IPCs, as well as an environment comparable to a native real-time operating system.

At the same time, at this summit, Intel announced that it will work with CVTE and Deshengda to jointly define the world's next-generation new OPS specifications, in order to further promote the innovative development of smart education and digital video conferencing with more ecological partners. As a standard system architecture created by Intel for commercial display equipment, OPS has been developed for more than ten years. This updated version will be improved based on market feedback from the OPS standard, which can not only meet more common needs of customers, but also enable customers to customize according to special needs. This brings customers higher display rates, higher display bandwidth and clearer display effects, while supporting a wider range of high-definition displays such as 4K and 8K.

With the mighty power of ecology

Welcome to the new era of digitalization

In addition to providing a full-stack product portfolio, Intel has also built a powerful and extensive ecosystem, and worked with many ecosystem partners including Chinese companies to promote the digital transformation of thousands of industries.

●In the medical field, Intel is working with many industry partners to optimize ultrasound scanning performance. With the help of oneA, OpenVINO and Core processors, workflows such as prenatal ultrasound examinations can be greatly simplified. This means that doctors will have more time to focus on additional, more detailed ultrasound screenings, thereby providing patients with better diagnosis and treatment options;

● In the field of smart cities, Intel and the ecosystem have developed a solution equipped with edge AI Box and edge server by using Intel processors and OpenVINO, which can provide more choices and convenience for passengers and improve travel efficiency;