Intel IT is using artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate yield ramp by clustering and classifying manufacturing failure patterns. Expert yield analysis engineers have always performed end-of-line yield analysis at Intel’s silicon wafer factories (fabs). But as the number of products and volume grow in Intel’s manufacturing environment, a manual detection approach to yield analysis poses several challenges: Limited human-hour resources prevent engineers from reviewing and documenting every issue in every wafer in every lot. Detection accuracy depends on an engineer’s experience level. Know ..read more

IT Best Practices: Intel IT tests Wi-Fi 6 in an actual office environment during COVID lockdown, proving enhanced performance under challenging, real-world scenarios and delivering important insights for successful deployments. Wi-Fi 6 may be the ideal gateway toward realization of an enterprise-wide wireless infrastructure. With many of our office spaces temporarily vacated due to the COVID pandemic, we had the unique opportunity to test this latest Wi-Fi standard in a real office environment using laptops equipped with Intel Wi-Fi 6E (AX210) network cards. We partnered with Intel’s Client Co ..read more

IT Best Practices: Intel IT runs Intel data center services like a factory, affecting change in a disciplined manner and applying breakthrough technologies, solutions and processes. This enables us to optimally meet Intel’s business requirements while providing our internal customers with effective data center infrastructure capabilities and innovative business services. Building on previous investments and techniques, our data center strategy has generated savings exceeding USD 4.8 billion from 2010 to 2020. We are constantly improving our data center strategy to continue our data center tran ..read more

IT Best Practices: In this second video of the Path to Cloud series Phil Vokins, Cloud Services Director, Intel Americas, is joined by Shachaf Levi, Intel IT Cloud Security Architect and Sridhar Mahankali, Intel IT Principal Engineer, Network Security where they shed light on the biggest concern for companies moving to the cloud – security. In this video the team discusses the key aspects and considerations of cloud security including: Biggest Risks in Cloud – 2:00 Cloud vs. On-Prem Risks – 5:20 Cloud Security Frameworks – 10:15 Intel’s IT Recommendation – 12:18 ..read more

IT Best Practices: Intel IT has a large AI group that works across Intel to transform critical work, optimize processes, eliminate scalability bottlenecks and generate significant business value (more than USD 1.5B return on investment in 2020). Our efforts unlock the power of data to make Intel’s business processes smarter, faster and more innovative, from product design to manufacturing to sales and pricing. To enable this operation at scale, we developed Microraptor: a set of MLOps capabilities that are reused in all of our AI platforms. Microraptor enables world-class MLOps to accelerate a ..read more

IT Best Practices: Intel’s innovative disaggregated server architecture and data center facilities design and operation reduce e-waste and increase energy efficiency—helping to protect the environment and produce significant cost savings. Do what’s right for the business and what’s right for the environment. That is the dual goal behind many of Intel IT’s data center transformation initiatives. We have found that these goals are often closely linked: reducing total cost of ownership (TCO) can help us also reduce total cost to the environment (TCE). Adopting disaggregated servers enables us to ..read more

IT Best Practices: In several proofs of concept, fuel cell technology has proved to be a reliable, stable, efficient and sustainable source of electricity for Intel’s data centers. Intel IT joined forces with Intel’s Corporate Services and Global Supply Chain groups to enable fuel cells to meet Intel’s redundancy and capacity expectations. For some of Intel’s data centers, fuel cells are the primary source of power (as opposed to the power grid). To date, we have fuel cell installations at Intel data centers in Bangalore, India, as well as in Santa Clara in the U.S. Fuel cells are now part of ..read more

IT Best Practices: Intel IT Principal Engineers Craig Chvatal and Subbarao Mantha talk to Phil Vokins, Cloud Services Director at Intel Americas, outlining Intel’s best practices businesses should consider when moving to the cloud. In this first edition of our new series, Phil and guests provide practical advice for companies of all sizes that are considering moving their IT infrastructure and applications to the cloud. From clearly defining cloud strategy that enables the business through grouping applications, to applying the 3 “Cs” principles and lessons learned from Intel’s own migration t ..read more

As one of the world’s largest semiconductor chip makers, Intel’s vision is to be the performance leader that unleashes the potential of data. In this era of rapid change and distributed intelligence, we see artificial intelligence (AI), 5G network transformation and the intelligent, autonomous edge as the fastest growing opportunities for Intel and our customers. As we have transformed to position our company and our customers for growth, Intel’s Information Technology (IT) team has partnered with the business to drive innovative solutions with emerging technologies. Our digital transformation ..read more

IT Best Practices: Best-in-class organizations continuously strive to innovate and improve IT assets. This transformation is critical for business organizations to perform operations without disruption. IT transformation also enhances business units’ ability to meet objectives through deeper IT asset insights and improved total cost of ownership (TCO), all while running leaner and more efficiently. Application portfolio management (APM) is an information system that stores and manages a wide range of IT assets throughout their lifecycles. APM provides insights into several measurable data poin ..read more