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Intel Wants Partners To Benefit Across Its Six Innovation Pillars
by Dylan Martin
‘In every single one of those phases, we‘ll make advancements across all these six pillars. We will communicate it consistently, so that our partners can take the vision, add value on top of it and create revenue and opportunity,’ Intel sales exec Greg Ernst says of the chipmaker’s new three-phase plan for channel partners.
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How Intel Is Making Optane Memory Easier For Partners To Sell
by Dylan Martin
‘We‘re going to help with providing the solutions, the training or even offering programs or incentives for them to become champions, so that they become educated on the product and how to use it. And we’re really starting to see a lot of traction,’ Intel’s Kristie Mann says of Optane Persistent Memory for data centers.
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How Intel’s Tiger Lake CPUs Are Designed For A ‘Spectrum Of Needs’
by Dylan Martin
Top Intel engineer Boyd Phelps explains how Intel’s new 11th-generation Core processors use new components like AI accelerators to offload workloads like background blurring from the CPU and reduce power draw. ‘AI is not just one engine. It’s really about how do you actually meet the needs of the different workloads,’ he says.
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Intel Is Changing The Way It Forecasts PC Growth To Meet Demand
by Dylan Martin
Intel exec Steve Long says as the PC resurgence continues, the chipmaker is looking at different metrics, like stimulus funds, to forecast future growth: ‘What we’re changing from a segment-first modeling approach is that we think this is a new inflection point on the client category curve, and as an industry and whole ecosystem, we need to get ahead of it.’
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5 Companies That Came To Win This Week
by Rick Whiting
For the week ending Oct. 23, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel.
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Intel Enterprise Server Sales Nosedive As Ice Lake Slips, 10nm Ramps
by Dylan Martin
The chipmaker says it now expects Ice Lake server processors to start shipping in the first quarter of 2021. At the same time, Intel is ramping up 10-nanometer production volume, which is expected to be 30 percent higher than previously anticipated. Intel also provided updates on its discrete graphics and AI products as well as its 7nm process.
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‘Small But Mighty’ Intel Team Is Helping Partners Win With vPro
by Dylan Martin
Intel’s nascent vPro ecosystem enablement team is helping partners identify new ways to monetize the vPro platform while leading integration efforts with MSP vendors like Datto. ‘We recognized over the years that we need to lean in more and we need to understand how we help the channel sell,’ Intel’s Carla Rodriguez says.
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How Intel Is Working With Partners To Bring Some Normalcy To Life
by Dylan Martin
‘The idea of the solutions that we’re partnering with customers on is really trying to think about it from a protection and preventative measure [perspective],’ Intel’s Gina Merjanian says of the ways the company is working with partners to return some sense of normalcy to the world and reduce disruptions caused by the pandemic.
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Intel Partner Alliance Aims To Recognize Partners’ Unique Business Models
by Dylan Martin
‘We should absolutely have the construct of this program [be] a reflection of the partners’ business models, not ours,’ says Eric Thompson, Intel’s general manager of global partner enablement, of the new unified channel program that’s set to launch in January.
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Top Intel Sales Exec Vows ‘One Intel’ Approach Will Boost Partners
by Dylan Martin
‘As we‘ve been talking to our customers and partners, they talk about how strong the Intel brand is and that they want to see us use it more to their advantage — to be louder, to be more vocal — and we have the 12th most valuable brand on the planet, and frankly it’s only going to get better and stronger,’ Intel’s Michelle Johnston Holthaus says in her Intel Partner Connect keynote.
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Intel’s $9B NAND SSD, Memory Sale To SK Hynix: 6 Big Things To Know
by Dylan Martin
CRN dives deep into the details of Intel’s NAND SSD divestiture, how it will help SK Hynix, which Intel products it will impact and what it means for Intel’s Optane business.
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Confirmed: Intel In $9B Deal To Sell NAND Memory Biz To SK Hynix
by Dylan Martin
The deal means Intel is getting out of the NAND SSD business while retaining its Intel Optane products. ‘For Intel, this transaction will allow us to further prioritize our investments in differentiated technology where we can play a bigger role in the success of our customers and deliver attractive returns to our stockholders,’ CEO Bob Swan says.
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Intel Deal To Sell NAND Memory Biz To SK Hynix Reportedly Imminent
by Dylan Martin
In its most recent quarter, Intel’s Nonvolatile Solutions Group, which includes the chipmaker’s SSD products and Intel Optane memory modules, grew 76 percent to $1.7 billion.
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Intel Unveils Next-Gen SmartNICs As Nvidia Plots DPU Takeover
by Dylan Martin
The chipmaker’s new FPGA-based SmartNIC technologies for cloud data centers and 5G networks are part of a growing portfolio of connectivity products meant to help data center and network operators improve the performance and total cost of ownership for how data flows from one point to another.
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