The Future of Intelligent Edge
Intel Labs conducts innovative research to drive next-generation intelligent edge infrastructure and services that are highly scalable, resilient, secure, and easy to deploy and manage.
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Accelerating AI, Communications, and Compute for the Intelligent Edge
Intel Labs develops unique intelligent edge technologies for a wide variety of end-to-end distributed edge deployments and services. Our edge research includes driving foundational edge AI capabilities, contributing to next-generation communications standards (like 6G), enabling open edge platforms for industry collaboration, introducing end-to-end quality of service approaches like intent-driven orchestration, ensuring secure and trustworthy edge networking, and accelerating edge hardware and software platforms.
Intelligent Edge Research Areas
Open Platform Infrastructure
Intel is working with ecosystem partners on smart, secure, and scalable open source edge platform infrastructure for emerging services.
6G Wireless Networks
Integrating distributed computation, real-time learning, and sensing to support emerging autonomous systems and immersive services.
AI-Enabled Edge Services
Shaping the future of edge services with advancements in anomaly detection, autonomous mobile robots, and visual data management.
Intent-Driven Orchestration
Enabling users in serverless environments to set resource allocation by using intent-driven requests based on key performance indicators (KPIs).
Trustworthy Networking & Edge
Developing technology that improves foundational security, data and workload protection, and trustworthiness of software and AI in distributed systems.
"As the network infrastructure industry evolves, Intel is focusing on the highly distributed heterogeneous edge outside of public cloud and private enterprise data centers to deliver value-added software and services on top of our traditional silicon platforms. Market dynamics demand high performance solutions that are easy to deploy, manage, and secure while also reducing operational complexity and total cost of ownership. Working with academic and industry partners, Intel Labs’ research goal is to build a scalable, secure, and open end-to-end network infrastructure that leverages emerging ML/AI techniques to automate and optimize deployment of innovative new applications and workloads along the client-to-edge-to-cloud continuum."
Pranav Mehta
VP and Director, Systems and Software Research
Global Research Initiatives
Intel Labs works with academic institutions, government organizations, and industry collaborators from across the globe to advance Intelligent Edge research.
Intel Joins Hexa-X Initiative to Develop 6G Wireless Technologies
Intel joined Hexa-X, the EU flagship research project to help build the foundation for 6G wireless technologies, including AI-driven communication and computation co-design, plus related aspects in data security, privacy, and trust.
Intel Leads ETSI's Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) Initiative
The MEC initiative is an industry specification group within ETSI that creates a standardized, open environment for seamless integration of applications from vendors, service providers, and third parties across multi-vendor MEC platforms.
Intel Joins DARPA Program to Send Data at Speed of Light
DARPA selected Intel to join the Space-Based Adaptive Communications Node (Space-BACN) program to create a low-cost, reconfigurable optical communications terminal to translate information between satellite constellations, enabling data to be sent anywhere around the planet at the speed of light.
Intelligent Edge Research Centers
Machine Learning for Wireless Networking Systems (MLWiNS)
Intel and NSF are jointly supporting research on distributed machine learning computations over wireless edge networks to accelerate a broad range of new applications.
Resilient and Intelligent Next-Generation Systems (RINGS)
Led by the NSF, this multi-sector collaboration fosters innovation to improve next generation wireless network resilience through autonomy, adaptability, and security.
JUMP 2.0 Center for Ubiquitous Connectivity (CUBIC)
Supported by SRC, DARPA, and industry and academic stakeholders, JUMP 2.0’s Center for Ubiquitous Connectivity strives to improve performance in communication technologies.