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IT@Intel: Preparing Our PC Fleet for the Future of AI

IT@Intel: Preparing Our PC Fleet for the Future of AI

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 [See the full post…]

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Enterprise Architecture: Accelerating Intel’s Business Transformation

Enterprise Architecture: Accelerating Intel’s Business Transformation

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, [See the full post…]

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2024-25 Intel IT Annual Performance Report: IT – The Resilient Change Agent

2024-25 Intel IT Annual Performance Report: IT – The Resilient Change Agent

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 [See the full post…]

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IT@Intel: IT Resiliency Drives a Resilient Enterprise

IT@Intel: IT Resiliency Drives a Resilient Enterprise

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, [See the full post…]

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IT@Intel: Transforming Siloed Manufacturing Data into Unified Insights

IT@Intel: Transforming Siloed Manufacturing Data into Unified Insights

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” [See the full post…]

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Training Machine-Learning Models on Intel Gaudi Accelerators

Training Machine-Learning Models on Intel Gaudi Accelerators

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 [See the full post…]

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Scaling Intel Data Centers with Software-Defined Networking

Scaling Intel Data Centers with Software-Defined Networking

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 [See the full post…]

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Validating and Evolving Intel IT’s Multicloud Strategy

Validating and Evolving Intel IT’s Multicloud Strategy

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 [See the full post…]

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More Accurately Benchmarking the End-User PC Experience

More Accurately Benchmarking the End-User PC Experience

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: [See the full post…]

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Prioritizing Investments and Maximizing Security Using Capability-Based Planning

January 24th, 2025 |
Prioritizing Investments and Maximizing Security Using Capability-Based Planning

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 [See the full post…]

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Delivering Operational Efficiencies Using a 5G Private Network

December 20th, 2024 |
Delivering Operational Efficiencies Using a 5G Private Network

“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 [See the full post…]

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“Nowhere to Go”: Transforming Maternity Care Access

November 12th, 2024 |
“Nowhere to Go”: Transforming Maternity Care Access

A full 35% of U.S. counties are maternity care deserts—regions that lack birthing facilities or obstetric clinicians, according to recent March of Dimes report, Nowhere to Go: Maternity Care Deserts Across the US. Alarmingly, this may worsen as maternity units [See the full post…]

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Optimizing and Troubleshooting Wi-Fi Networks Using Client Analytics

September 27th, 2024 |
Optimizing and Troubleshooting Wi-Fi Networks Using Client Analytics

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 [See the full post…]

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Using NLP to Streamline Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)

Using NLP to Streamline Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)

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 [See the full post…]

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Modernizing Windows Client Management

Modernizing Windows Client Management

“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 [See the full post…]

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Intel IT’s Data Center Strategy Leads our Business Transformation

Intel IT’s Data Center Strategy Leads our Business Transformation

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 [See the full post…]

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Intel Factory Pathfinder

Intel Factory Pathfinder

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 [See the full post…]

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Democratizing Use and Development of Generative AI Across Intel

Democratizing Use and Development of Generative AI Across Intel

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 [See the full post…]

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2023-2024 Intel IT Annual Performance Report

2023-2024 Intel IT Annual Performance Report

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 [See the full post…]

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IT@Intel: Modernizing Enterprise Data Analytics Using Databricks in the Cloud

IT@Intel: Modernizing Enterprise Data Analytics Using Databricks in the Cloud

Intel IT migrated enterprise data analytics to the cloud, enabling faster turnaround of business requests and increased operational efficiency.

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Intel Operations Recon – Enabling Simulation Across Systems and Processes

February 22nd, 2024 |
Intel Operations Recon – Enabling Simulation Across Systems and Processes

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 [See the full post…]

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Mindful Medicine: Exploring the Treatment Potential of Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy

February 5th, 2024 |
Mindful Medicine: Exploring the Treatment Potential of Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy

Psychedelic-assisted therapy is a growing avenue for addressing mental health conditions such as treatment-resistant depression, and more progress is expected in the coming years. On today’s episode of the Business Group on Health podcast, we’re joined by Andrew Penn, a [See the full post…]

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Smart Manufacturing: Computer Vision and AI for Inline Inspection

February 5th, 2024 |
Smart Manufacturing: Computer Vision and AI for Inline Inspection

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 [See the full post…]

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Cut Downtime & Costs with Fault Detection for Factory Equipment

February 2nd, 2024 |
Cut Downtime & Costs with Fault Detection for Factory Equipment

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 [See the full post…]

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Intel IT Expands Low-Cost IIoT Manufacturing Use Cases

February 1st, 2024 |
Intel IT Expands Low-Cost IIoT Manufacturing Use Cases

Our low-cost IIoT manufacturing use cases create savings & reduce downtime. We hope they inspire other manufacturers to adopt a similar approach.

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