2 years ago

Category: Software, Data, artificial-intelligence

When Pat Gelsinger returned to Intel in February after more than a decade away, he made short work of putting effort and investments into shoring up the company’s famed manufacturing business, which in recent years had been dogged by production delays and missed deadlines and made the world’s dominant chipmaker suddenly look vulnerable. It included promising to spend $20 billion to build two new chip factories — or “fabs” — launching a formal chip foundry business to build other people’s processors, promoting efforts to have more chips made in the United States and then announcing last month that it would invest another $95 billion to build more fabs in Europe.

Intel is partnering with SiPearl, a chipmaker that is designing an Arm-based processor to be used in Europe’s exascale supercomputers, by adding Ponte Vecchio as an accelerator.

What’s key for the chipmaker is ensuring that its software is available and accessible to the broadest range of developers who are working with Intel platforms.

We want to get people interested in our technology and bring consultants and advisors in for free to help them grow their companies,” Lavender said.