Intel Innovation 2021 Event: The 10 Biggest Announcements To Know

October 29, 2021, 01:54 PM EDT

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger and other executives laid out the chipmaker’s new ‘software-first’ strategy with a series of announcements and disclosures spanning much of the company’s portfolio of silicon products at the inaugural Intel Innovation event in late October.

Intel Announces New Data Science Solution With OEMs

Intel announced a new set of data science solutions for “out of the box” AI development that will combine Linux-based workstation PCs from Dell, HP and Lenovo with the Intel oneAPI AI Analytics toolkit. The chipmaker said Lenovo will launch the first solution, which will come with the oneAPI AI toolkit pre-installed alongside a custom Linux operating system built on top of Ubuntu. Intel also said it has entered a new collaboration with Microsoft that will enable “the best developer experience” when using Microsoft Visual Studio, WSL2 and Intel’s oneAPI toolkit for machine learning and AI development.