As part of our regular PC refresh cycle, we are deploying AI PCs, which are powered by an eXtensible processing unit (XPU) architecture that integrates multiple types of processing units (such as CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs). We chose to begin deploying AI PCs now to prepare for software applications’ ability to run various features on a GPU or NPU, which drains less power from the battery. Our tests indicate that an AI PC’s battery can last up to 3x longer than a non-AI PC during standard office tasks...
Aug 12, 20250
Intel IT is modernizing our enterprise architecture (EA) to accelerate Intel’s business transformation. Our goal is to simplify processes, more tightly manage IT assets, and drive EA innovation through AI. Initiatives include establishing federated governance, formalizing evaluation of emerging technologies, increasing EA resiliency, infusing various forms of AI into our EA workflows, and using capability-based planning to prioritize and optimize capability evolution. Our new approach to EA will...
Jul 18, 20250
Intel is entering a new era, with Intel Product and Intel Foundry as separate business entities. Through activities such as accelerated adoption of AI capabilities, data transformation, and ongoing modernization of factory and data center alike, Intel IT plays a pivotal role as a resilient change agent. We are aligning IT investments and initiatives with Intel’s strategic business objectives and are building resilience into our IT systems, processes, and organizational culture to support enterpr...
Jun 18, 20250
Modern electrical grids incorporate redundancy and automated rerouting to maintain a reliable electrical supply during equipment failures or natural disasters. Plants have coping mechanisms to deal with adverse conditions like drought. Similarly, it is important that IT systems, including applications, infrastructure, platforms, and services, can withstand or recover quickly from difficulties. Resilient technology helps companies thrive, and when disruptions occur, enables them to emerge stronge...
Jun 03, 20250
Intel’s manufacturing landscape is evolving rapidly, driven by digital transformation and automation. Intel’s manufacturing facilities generate vast amounts of data that must be efficiently processed, analyzed, and secured to optimize operations and maintain competitiveness. In 2013, we deployed an “ultra” data warehouse that replaced our older fragmented and siloed databases. It has stood the test of time, easily scaling as we added yet more data and data domains. As Intel transitions to a foun...
May 31, 20250
Training models on Intel Gaudi accelerators is helping improve efficiency in Intel’s factories. Intel’s smart manufacturing environment relies on AI to improve yield, perform root-cause analysis, and accelerate anomaly detection. As Intel transforms to an internal foundry model, it is crucial that the Manufacturing Automation team helps improve factory efficiency by enabling faster, more cost-efficient deep-learning (DL) and machine-learning (ML) workloads. We recently benchmarked a manufacturin...
Apr 08, 20250
Software-defined networking (SDN) is helping Intel IT keep up with Intel’s business expansion. We regularly experience an annual 25% increase in demand for data center network capacity. Furthermore, business pressures necessitate that new capacity be operational within 24 hours. As early as 2014, we acknowledged the potential of SDN to help address these challenges. After evaluating the components and architectures of SDN, we opted for an open, standards-based architecture rather than a supplier...
Apr 03, 20250
Intel IT adopted a “right workload, right place” multicloud strategy nearly 10 years ago. This strategy has accelerated application development and deployment agility, achieved cost-responsible scalability, and enabled our business partners across Intel to achieve their business goals. A decade of validation has underscored that emphasizing business value in cloud hosting decisions is advantageous. However, we continue to adapt our multicloud strategy as both business needs and the IT ecosystem ...
Apr 01, 20250
To benchmark the end-user PC experience, Intel IT uses tools that clarify PC power consumption and applications’ effect on battery life. This helps us optimize the IT build and answer one of the most common questions we receive from users: “Why doesn’t my corporate laptop battery last as long as my laptop at home?” We know employees want to be as productive as possible, and battery life is crucial to Intel’s highly mobile workforce. On the other hand, our IT build includes several components tha...
Mar 17, 20250
Intel IT’s Information Security (InfoSec) group has adopted capability-based planning (CBP) because it provides a framework for aligning our group’s strategies with Intel’s overall business strategy. CBP helps us prioritize projects and resources, communicate more effectively with business stakeholders, reduce complexity, and become more agile and responsive to changing business needs. CBP is a planning methodology that drives business-focused outcomes by providing a systematic, objective, and h...
Jan 24, 20250
“Learn how Intel IT is gaining operational efficiencies resulting from a 5G private network in Intel’s manufacturing environment. Minimizing factory downtime and improving operational efficiency have always been the driving forces behind Intel IT’s push to digitize equipment in both factory and subfab environments. Now, we’re expanding these efforts by working with Intel’s Corporate Services (CS) team to connect critical factory-support infrastructure, including surveillance systems in guardhous...
Dec 20, 20240
Thousands of Intel’s employees connect to the corporate Wi-Fi network every day. When connectivity issues occur, both productivity and user experience (UX) suffer. Intel IT makes every effort to optimize the network’s performance. Still, until recently, we had little visibility into client behavior through traditional network monitoring solutions because they report issues only from the network infrastructure perspective. At the same time, endpoint IT tools are limited to operating system data. ...
Sep 27, 20240
Increasing Electronic Design Automation (EDA) performance and throughput is critical to Intel’s silicon Design engineers. Silicon chip Design engineers at Intel face ongoing challenges: integrating more features into ever-shrinking silicon chips, bringing products to market faster, and keeping Design engineering and manufacturing costs low. Design engineers run more than 273 million compute-intensive batch jobs every week. Each job takes from a few seconds to several days to complete. As design ...
Aug 23, 20240
Learn how Intel’s manufacturing engineers are using natural language processing (NLP) to streamline failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA). Intel Manufacturing Automation has developed an innovative methodology for performing FMEA in manufacturing by using artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to analyze users’ emotional tone—positive, negative, or neutral—about the manufacturing equipment. Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) is a critical process in manufacturing that is used to identi...
Aug 22, 20240
“Why is Intel IT modernizing Windows client management? Because a large part of Intel IT’s job is managing client devices—175,000 end-user and shared PCs for 124,000 employees. We need to consider many factors. Does a PC have the right drivers and security patches? How do we get new hires provisioned quickly? How do we ensure end users have access to the corporate resources they need, while still protecting resources from unauthorized access? Creating efficient client management processes is cru...
Aug 09, 20240
Intel IT’s data center strategy is to apply breakthrough technologies, solutions, and processes to accelerate Intel’s business. We also run Intel data center services like a factory, e?ecting change in a disciplined manner. Our approach enables us to optimally meet Intel’s business requirements while providing our internal customers with e?ective data center infrastructure capabilities and innovative business services. Building on previous investments and techniques, our data center strategy has...
Aug 08, 20240
Intel Factory Pathfinder delivers advanced simulation/scheduling capabilities for manufacturing. How efficiently is your factory operating? Are you able to provide accurate delivery dates to customers and consistently meet those dates? Are you maximizing the utilization of your equipment and raw materials to keep your factory running optimally and cost effectively? If not, Intel Factory Pathfinder was developed just for you. Factory Pathfinder can help you quickly identify and eliminate bottlene...
Jul 16, 2024•3 min
With the surge in the growth and adoption of Generative AI (GenAI) tools, Intel has seen hundreds of employees and teams begin using and developing tools based on commercial large language models (LLMs). Recognizing the immense potential of these tools to enhance efficiency and innovation—as well as concerns around AI data security, ethical use, and accuracy of responses—Intel IT formed a working group to understand common usage patterns, coordinate knowledge sharing across teams, and establish ...
Jun 12, 20240
Intel is evolving quickly, and Intel IT is a key driver in that evolution. As the architects of Intel’s IT landscape, we are the strategic, trusted technology partner for Intel’s business. Our focus is on innovation, AI, and optimization as well as the IT experience of our workforce, our end users, and Intel’s customers. The 21st edition of the IT Annual Performance Report highlights the transformative progress we made in 2023 and how IT is providing the essential technology and resources that w...
Apr 16, 20240
Intel IT migrated enterprise data analytics to the cloud, enabling faster turnaround of business requests and increased operational efficiency.
Apr 04, 20240
Digital twins are revolutionizing how we model, simulate, and optimize everything—from product designs to real-world systems and processes across virtually every industry. For our manufacturing process, we developed Intel Operations Recon to model, simulate, and optimize our manufacturing operations, improve yields accelerate problem resolution and training, increase uptime, and more. And now we’re making Intel Operations Recon available to all kinds of industries that can benefit from it. And t...
Feb 22, 2024•3 min
Intel IT is using computer vision and AI for inline inspection in Intel’s assembly and test factories. Keeping Intel’s global network of factories running at top efficiency is one of Intel IT’s primary roles. Over the last decade, we have introduced numerous automated, artificial intelligence (AI)-based solutions that significantly reduce waste and improve product quality. Recently, we added a new capability using computer vision (CV) and machine learning that enables us to perform inline inspec...
Feb 05, 20240
Learn the latest in Intel IT’s approach to fault detection for factory equipment. For many years, Intel IT has utilized a standard infrastructure with Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) sensors and Intel IoT Gateways for various applications on the factory floor. Simultaneously, we have employed a separate and expensive vendor-based system for fault detection and classification (FDC) on factory equipment. This system has contributed to reduced factory downtime and enhanced predictive maintenan...
Feb 02, 20240
Our low-cost IIoT manufacturing use cases create savings & reduce downtime. We hope they inspire other manufacturers to adopt a similar approach.
Feb 01, 20240
Increasing Electronic Design Automation (EDA) performance and throughput is critical to Intel’s silicon Design engineers. Silicon chip Design engineers at Intel face ongoing challenges: integrating more features into ever-shrinking silicon chips, bringing products to market faster and keeping Design engineering and manufacturing costs low. Design engineers run more than 273 million compute-intensive batch jobs every week. Each job takes from a few seconds to several days to complete. As design c...
Jan 30, 20240
