In the spring and autumn period, the years do not live, and it is the end of the year. Looking back, the ICT industry has taken a solid step through 2021.
At the end of the year and the beginning of the year, communications world all-media special inventory column, combing the development profile of key technologies, operators and head enterprises in the ICT industry this year, analyzing innovative applications, interpreting 5G landing application cases, and focusing on elites who have a profound impact on the development of the industry...
Warm old and new, 2021, come to the plate!
In 2021, whether it is the transformation of product design concepts or the improvement of the speed of innovation iteration, Intel has undergone a deep change.
From IDM2.0 to the meta-universe, and then to the 5G cloud network integration to promote digital transformation, in 2021, Intel will start from a new point and run a marathon at the speed of sprinting, confidently returning to its former leading position.
The new coach took office and awakened the four super technical forces
On January 14, 2021, chip giant Intel announced the change of coach, 25-year-old led the development of the epoch-making 80486 chip, and later became Intel's first CTO Pat Kissinger, after 10 years of service to EMC and VMWare, returned to the old owner who had worked for decades, becoming Intel's 8th CEO.
Kissinger mentioned four key "superpowers" that are changing the entire world — ubiquitous computing, ubiquitous connectivity, cloud-to-edge infrastructure, and artificial intelligence.
Kissinger understands Intel's proven and unique strengths—"Intel is the only semiconductor company with broad and deep capabilities in smart chips, platforms, software, architecture, design, manufacturing, and scale." As he said at the beginning of his tenure, good days lie ahead. Intel released a series of innovative technology products and applications in 2021, and the speed of product iteration and the boundaries of business expansion have been continuously improved.
In March this year, Intel officially launched the IDM 2.0 strategy;
In April, Intel launched the 3rd generation Xeon Scalable processor;
At the Six Five Summit in June, the IPU Infrastructure Processor was launched;
In July, Intel announced a detailed process and packaging technology roadmap, and announced that it will once again lead the industry in the process by 2025.
In August, major innovations in architecture technology were announced, introducing Alder Lake, the first high-performance hybrid architecture, a new independent gaming GPU architecture, and an extraordinary data center GPU architecture, PointeVecchio.
Eight months after Pat Kissinger became CEO, Intel China also embarked on a new journey in September. Dr. Rui Wang, also a veteran of Intel for more than 27 years, was promoted to Senior Vice President of Intel Corporation and also served as Chairman of Intel China, leading all businesses and teams in Intel China.
"A company with a foundation, no matter what kind of difficulties and ups and downs it encounters, can pass and can continue to grow." Wang Rui said that Intel is running a marathon at the speed of sprinting, and it is running with ecological partners, more open, faster, and continuous innovation. Intel's biggest competitor will always be Intel itself. As long as you return to Intel's own innovation rhythm, execution, and continuous R&D investment, you will have the confidence to finally have a leading position in this competitive world.
With the convergence of cloud and network, 5G accelerates the process of digital transformation
As the wave of digital transformation sweeps the world and the exponential growth in computing power demand follows, Intel has fundamentally changed the way networks are designed, operated, and delivered network services with the "four superpowers", resulting in a huge transformation. With a leading portfolio of cloud edge products, hardware and software acceleration solutions, and universal reference designs, Intel works with domestic and foreign industry partners to create a diversified 5G ecosystem.
During the September 2021 China International Infocomm Exhibition, Intel announced that it will use a generic X86 server and GPU to build a 5G edge computing iMEP platform with China Mobile Chengdu Industry Research Institute; through cooperation with Intel, Lenovo's 5G cloud network convergence product ThinCarrier cloud platform based on Intel CERA architecture and key technologies can achieve open decoupling and edge cloud collaboration ZTE implements cloud-native and microservice architecture in 5G virtualization and cloud-native UPF solutions, and obtains the air interface strategy through the Intel LPP interface, and New H3C can realize intelligent applications on RIC, conduct link prediction and guide optimization of game application related strategies, and realize 5G small station intelligence.
During the November 2021 China Mobile Global Partner Conference, Intel announced that it will provide China Mobile with a complete set of end-to-end GPU solutions from IaaS, PaaS to SaaS to jointly build a super cloud gaming service platform; Intel will also work with Beijing Mobile and Danghong Qitian to create a new 5G VR e-sports experience for users; based on the wireless intelligent control platform, China Mobile, New H3C and Intel have jointly carried out 5G performance optimization research and laboratory verification based on RIC.
During the November 2021 International Digital Technology Expo and Tianyi Intelligent Ecosystem Expo, Intel announced that the SD-WAN solution built by China Telecom Tianyi Cloud can accelerate enterprise cloud migration and improve the efficiency of branch access, interconnection and gateway, thereby improving the enterprise application network connection experience. Intel also cooperated with China Telecom Tianyi Cloud to jointly launch Tianyi Cloud ECX (K8S management node), Tianyi Cloud edge node (if the control surface is deployed separately) and 5G private network all-in-one platform.
As Zhuang Binghan, General Manager of Customer Sales for Operators in Asia Pacific, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Intel relies on leading cloud network edge software and hardware products and works with many ecosystem partners to promote digital transformation and innovation, thereby accelerating 5G large-scale replication and benefiting thousands of industries.
At the edge, the Internet of Things division is growing rapidly
While the rapid rise of the converged edge, the edge side also shows the characteristics of a surge in demand for video and artificial intelligence use, and the number of cameras deployed on the edge side and the resulting data are also growing rapidly.
Therefore, in terms of organizational structure, Intel this year merged the Network Platform Division, the Internet of Things Division, and the Connectivity Division into one business unit, the Network and Edge Division. In the third quarter financial report, it can be seen that the Internet of Things division has grown rapidly, with revenue reaching $1 billion in the third quarter, an increase of 54% year-on-year.
Video will be a booster to drive the development of artificial intelligence and edge computing, and the purpose of the IoT Video Division is to comprehensively promote the development of IoT video technology. Dr. Chen Wei, Vice President of Intel's Internet of Things Division, Global General Manager of IoT Video Division, and General Manager of IoT Business Unit China, said that high-density computing, computer vision and artificial intelligence applications, and complex computing hierarchies are the three characteristics of The technology of IoT Video Division that distinguishes it from other vertical industry technologies, and these three technologies are the basic technologies that can be used in other vertical industries, and they are the fundamental kinetic energy that promotes the boundaries of IoT technology.
Open the "yuan" prosperous world, deeply cultivate the computing power technology of the meta-universe
The metacosm is also an important development direction in the era of computing power. Metaverses need to capture real-world 3D objects, gestures, audio, and other information based on sensor data and render them in real time, creating a digital avatar with highly realistic details from clothing and hair to skin tone. Data transfers at ultra-high bandwidth and very low latency are also required, as well as maintaining a continuously running environment model that may contain elements of both the real environment and the elements of the simulated environment. This means that the demand for computing power is growing exponentially, along with the need to access many different forms of devices with lower latency.
For decades, Intel Core processors have been committed to delivering great gaming experiences, with realistic animations in games, VR/AR experiences, and movies happening on PCs and workstations powered by Intel Core. In the cloud and data center, Intel Xeon processors are optimized for lower latency and higher throughput.
Moreover, Intel's processors, infrastructure processing units, field-programmable gate arrays, and 5G solutions for edge computing bridge the cloud-to-edge divide, which is critical to the large distributed computing required by the metacosmity. In addition, the multi-generation high-performance XPU product roadmap spans the client, edge, and cloud, enabling Intel to achieve Z-level computing over the next five years. Behind the increase in computing power, Intel is laying out and promoting many technological innovations from transistors, packaging, storage to interconnection.
In 2021, Intel is helping the industry enter a new era of computing power with its own unique combination of punches. Intel is promoting the convergence of edge cloud networks to reality, which in turn sets off a wave of innovation in thousands of industries. At present, Intel is working with ecological partners to lead industry change through the four super technology forces, promote industrial upgrading, and make technology applications truly benefit people's lives.
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