11:29AM EDT – Welcome to our live blog of the opening keynote of Intel’s Innovation 2022. Things should be kicking off very soon
11:30AM EDT – Looks like people are starting to take their seats
11:30AM EDT – And we begin
11:31AM EDT – An edit: Only Pat Gelsinger, Intel’s CEO will be speaking today
11:32AM EDT – And it starts in 30 minutes, be back soon
11:57AM EDT – Ryan here, in both senses of the word. Intel is hosting this year’s event as an in-person function at the San Jose Convention Center, my home away from home
11:58AM EDT – Being an in-person event, this should be a more leisurely paced event than the kind of rapid-fire keynotes we’ve seen during the pandemic
11:58AM EDT – But first, a spoiler:
11:59AM EDT – Newegg posted Intel 13th Gen Core (Raptor Lake) processors for sale earlier this morning
11:59AM EDT – Complete with prices
11:59AM EDT – We’ll see if the prices are accurate. But at this point they seem realistic
12:00PM EDT – Meanwhile, on screenshot duty is the always-awesome Gavin Bonshor
12:00PM EDT – And this keynote should be kicking off momentarily
12:01PM EDT – Expected subjects today inclue Raptor Lake, Sapphire Rapids, Intel’s enterprise GPU efforts, and more
12:01PM EDT – And here we go
12:01PM EDT – Starting with Pat Gelsinger
12:01PM EDT – “We’re going to have a great event together now”
12:01PM EDT – This keynote is slated to run for 1 hour
12:02PM EDT – Pat is starting with reiterating Intel’s focus on open ecosystems and a developer-first approach
12:02PM EDT – News today on hardware, software, chip design, security, and more
12:03PM EDT – (Pat’s shirt is “geek” in ASCII binary)
12:03PM EDT – “We are in a new era”
12:04PM EDT – “We continue to witness the magic of technology”
12:04PM EDT – Pat is reiterating his “superpowers” analogy
12:04PM EDT – Compute, connectivity, cloud-to-edge infrastructure, AI, and sensing
12:05PM EDT – Oh? He’s added a 5th superpower. Sensing is new to the list
12:05PM EDT – Pat shows off his hearing aid
12:06PM EDT – An example of a sensory device today. A device that makes his life better
12:06PM EDT – It also changes how Intel thinks about their business and chip design
12:06PM EDT – Which brings us to Intel Foundry Services
12:07PM EDT – At the heart of chip fabbing is Moore’s Law
12:07PM EDT – Pat reiterates that he doesn’t consider Moore’s Law to be dead
12:07PM EDT – Going from 100B transistors today on a single package to 1T transistors by the end of the decade
12:07PM EDT – Making process on Intel’s “5 nodes in 4 years” development plan
12:08PM EDT – Expecting first 18A test chip tape-out before the end of the year
12:08PM EDT – “We will not rest until the periodic table is exhausted”
12:08PM EDT – Intel will continue to work to grow capacity and demand
12:09PM EDT – With their previously announced Tower Semi acquisition, it gives Intel a significant bredth in capabilities
12:09PM EDT – Now talking about the idea of a Systems Foundry
12:09PM EDT – A Systems Foundry offers wafers, advanced packaging, chiplets, and software
12:10PM EDT – “Software defined, silicon enhanced”
12:11PM EDT – Investing heavily in the UCIe chiplet ecosystem
12:11PM EDT – “We’re going to bring all of those pieces together”
12:11PM EDT – Now rolling a video about UCIe
12:12PM EDT – Which starts with a statement from TSMC
12:12PM EDT – Intel is emphasizing the “universal” part of UCIe
12:12PM EDT – Part of Intel’s $1B IFS innovation fund is for startups and disruptive technologies
12:13PM EDT – Intel is also scaling up their university shuttle program. The goal: 100x
12:14PM EDT – Looking to develop the semiconductor talent pool of tomorrow
12:14PM EDT – Now on to graphics and accelerated computing
12:14PM EDT – High-perf computing requires vector and matrix processing
12:15PM EDT – The only thing Pat didn’t do in his previous stint at Intel: high-performance graphics
12:15PM EDT – Now on to GPUs
12:15PM EDT – Announcing the Intel Data Center GPU Flex series
12:15PM EDT – Flex 170 and Flex 140
12:15PM EDT – For inference, training, AI, VDI, video encoding. Everything GPUs are used for today in servers
12:16PM EDT – Pat also has a Ponte Vecchio package in his hand
12:16PM EDT – PVC and Sapphire Rapids with HBM are the computing brains behind the Aurora supercomputer
12:16PM EDT – Intel is delivering those blades now
12:17PM EDT – But you can’t talk about GPUs without talking about gaming
12:17PM EDT – Paraphrasing: the price of gaming GPUs is too damned high
12:17PM EDT – “Today we’re fixing that”
12:17PM EDT – Intel Arc A770 GPU
12:17PM EDT – 65% better RT performance than the unspecified competitiomn
12:17PM EDT – Now rolling a demo video
12:18PM EDT – Available October 12th at $329
12:18PM EDT – Cards on the way to reviewers now
12:18PM EDT – So putting it up against the NVIDIA RTX 3060 and AMD RX 66xx parts
12:20PM EDT – Shifting gears, bringing on stage Intel’s AI Ethics Lead Architect, Ria Cheruvu
12:20PM EDT – She’s just 18
12:21PM EDT – We’ll hear more about this in Greg’s session tomorrow: the Intel Developer Cloud
12:21PM EDT – Which Intel uses to showcase some of their latest technologies
12:21PM EDT – The Dev Cloud is current in a limited beta, but Intel is intending to expand that
12:23PM EDT – Intel’s first challenge: speeding up development cycles
12:23PM EDT – Development cycles are too slow
12:23PM EDT – Intel has a tool to help with no-code solutions
12:24PM EDT – The Neural Compressor with Neural Coder
12:24PM EDT – Converted a PyTorch model from FP32 to INT8
12:24PM EDT – Running on Sapphire Rapids
12:25PM EDT – 10.8x speed-up on SPR versus using FP32
12:25PM EDT – Now on to security
12:25PM EDT – Demoing Intel SGX
12:26PM EDT – (SGX seems to get compromised with some regularity)
12:26PM EDT – Working to enable a holistic view of confidential computing
12:27PM EDT – Breaking news: Raptor Lake launches on October 20th. i9-13900K is $589
12:28PM EDT – Now on to AI model development
12:29PM EDT – An enterprise platform for collaborating on AI development
12:29PM EDT – Showcasing how to build a CV model to maximize coffee bean yield
12:30PM EDT – Using active learning to cut down on the number of sample images required
12:31PM EDT – Showing how the model performs so far, and how it’s flaws can be corrected
12:31PM EDT – Model can then be optimized with OpenVINO and deployed across datacenters
12:32PM EDT – Launching today: Intel Geti
12:32PM EDT – “Powerful AI for everyone”
12:32PM EDT – Commercially available in Q4 of this year
12:33PM EDT – (Just to be clear, Geti is a computer vision training system)
12:33PM EDT – Continuing the subject of building AI models. Now with a guest speaker from PreciTaste
12:34PM EDT – Using OpenVINO for its flexibility in being able to run against GPUs or CPUs (rather than being limited to just GPUs)
12:35PM EDT – 30% higher FPS in one afternoon
12:35PM EDT – Using Intel’s RealSense cameras to watch pans of food. OpenVINO used to classify things and how much there is
12:36PM EDT – Shuffle pans; AI picks up on the change
12:38PM EDT – Chipotle will be deploying this Intel tech in a large market in the “coming months”
12:38PM EDT – Developer challenge 3: game development is complex and slow
12:39PM EDT – Discussing debugging of networked clients
12:40PM EDT – The game is Nightengale, a UE5 game
12:41PM EDT – High perf requirements mean that normally, only one or two clients could be run on a single workstation
12:41PM EDT – (Technical error: keyboard is not working)
12:42PM EDT – Using an unclear tech to allow a system to run up to 8 instances
12:42PM EDT – Ahh, this is a demo of having so many cores on an Intel CPU
12:43PM EDT – Particularly the E-cores
12:44PM EDT – Now rolling demo footage of the game itself
12:44PM EDT – Pat is hiding something behind his back
12:44PM EDT – Poorly
12:45PM EDT – Today Intel is announcing the 13th Gen Intel Core processor family
12:45PM EDT – Codename: Raptor Lake
12:45PM EDT – Flagship i9-13900K
12:45PM EDT – 8 P cores plus 16 E cores (twice as many E cores as before)
12:46PM EDT – Best gaming/streaming experience ever
12:46PM EDT – DDR5 speeds up to DDR5-5600
12:46PM EDT – “World’s best overclocking experience as well”
12:46PM EDT – Will be releasing a “limited volume” 6.0GHz SKU next year
12:47PM EDT – So 13900KS?
12:47PM EDT – Over 50 processors planned as part of the 13th Gen Core family
12:48PM EDT – Developer challenge 4: creative development is time-consuming and limited
12:48PM EDT – (Someone needs to do a Stable Diffusion or similar image having Pat Gelsinger show off Ryzen CPUs)
12:49PM EDT – Showing off Stable Diffusion here running on Intel’s Gaudi 2 hardware
12:50PM EDT – Showing off the “incredible power” of the next-gen Gaudi 2 accelerator
12:51PM EDT – Developer challenge 5: User experience needs to drive product design
12:52PM EDT – User experience needs to drive product design
12:52PM EDT – Samsung Display’s CEO, JS Choi, is now on stage
12:52PM EDT – Choi is holding a rollable OLED display
12:52PM EDT – Expanding and shrinking it
12:53PM EDT – Announcing world’s first 17-inch slidable display
12:55PM EDT – Now on to showcasing Intel Unison
12:55PM EDT – Unison promisses to “bring all of our devices together”
12:56PM EDT – Extending his laptop’s display to the Samsung screen
12:57PM EDT – Unison can also extend iOS and Android devices
12:57PM EDT – iOS texts on a Windows PC. That’s a pretty killer feature
12:57PM EDT – Unison coming to new laptops this holiday season
12:57PM EDT – On select Intel Evo devices
12:58PM EDT – 6th and final challenge solve high-bandwidth low-power connectivity
12:58PM EDT – Silicon Photonics
12:58PM EDT – Showing an old video of a much younger Pat talking about silicon photonics
12:59PM EDT – Silicon photonics has taken longer than expected
12:59PM EDT – But it’s finally coming. And is an example of how Intel is investing in the long term
01:00PM EDT – Detachable optical in-package connector
01:00PM EDT – A live demo being streamed out of Intel’s labs in Scotland
01:01PM EDT – Showing a demo measuring the light coming out of the silicon photonics chip
01:01PM EDT – Let there be light
01:01PM EDT – Now detaching and reattaching the connector
01:02PM EDT – “This is exactly how I dreamed of it decades ago”
01:02PM EDT – Now wrapping things up
01:03PM EDT – Signing one of the posters they created with Stable Diffusion earlier
01:03PM EDT – To close things out, Pat is bringing up Linus Torvalds
01:06PM EDT – Linus is recounting the creation of Linux. He was poor and could not afford a Unix
01:07PM EDT – Extolling the virtues of open source
01:08PM EDT – Linus Torvalds, Pat’s favorite plodding engineer
01:09PM EDT – Linus is the first recipient of a new award. The Intel Innovation Award
01:09PM EDT – “That is very nice and classy”
01:09PM EDT – Lifetime Achievement award
01:10PM EDT – And that’s Linus
01:10PM EDT – Pat’s now quickly hyping up the crowd about the next 2 days
01:11PM EDT – And that’s a wrap
01:11PM EDT – Thanks for joining us for another live blog. Now off to check out some other sessions here at Innovation
