During the presentation of the PowerHouse event in Colombia, Intel executives delved into the characteristics of the fourth generation Xeon processors. The main focus was the use of these in data centers.
The digitalization of companies, which has had an accelerated pace after the pandemic years, added to the increasingly massive use of Artificial Intelligence, is leading to an increase in investments in this area.
However, Santiago Cardona, director of Intel for Latin America, pointed out that in the next three years 70% of companies will have difficulties obtaining the maximum value from investments in the cloud.
Intel: a key role in digitizing data
“More than 90% of the world’s infrastructures run on Intel, we intend for the revolution to occur in data centers,” said Santiago Cardona, Intel’s general director for Latin America, during his main conference.
“With everything that is happening with artificial intelligence, there are new demands and new requirements,” he added. The Intel executive added that according to estimates by the consulting firm IDC, 70% of companies will find it difficult to obtain the maximum value from investments in the cloud, data, and automation by 2026, that 30% of IT and data assets will be affected by changes in personnel, budgets, and operational processes in 2026, and that 35% of the budgets of the 5,000 largest companies in Latin America will be allocated to connectivity, security, computing, and data assets. by 2028.
An active path, which undoubtedly requires the best technologies. In this line, a powerful piece of information: 10 processors of the new generation do the work of 50 processors of the first generation. And according to Intel executives, if you calculate the cost of upgrading, based on improved productivity, it’s certainly worth it.
The five super powers of technology
A curious comparison, made by Cadona, pointed out that the world of technology has five super powers that are driving change today: ubiquitous computing, ubiquitous connectivity, infrastructure cloud-to-edge, artificial intelligence and sensory capacity. Which would be being strongly driven by Intel.
The executive cited examples such as the processing capabilities required by automated voice assistants that in turn have to send information to some place with connectivity.
A close example: streaming platforms
We talked with Julián Duque, the recently appointed manager of Intel in Colombia, about the subject and we delved into the case of data centers with information from Netflix, for example: by having the information from the streaming platform on thousands of servers, they ensure that the data is “close to the users” and that is the key to the fact that, although the Internet at home may not be the best, it is rare to have “lag” or similar problems with the platform.
And how Intel’s new generation processors can be a key and support in this: Duque pointed out in his presentation that the new generation of Xeon processors have an artificial intelligence engine that frees up capabilities that were previously monopolized by CPUs, allowing tasks to be carried out faster and freeing up processing resources. Enhanced processors for today’s requirements.