Intel is the global leader in processor innovation. Watch this video to get a step-by-step glimpse of how we create this technology.
Innovating the Next Era of Technology
Intel helps our customers and industry deliver amazing advances in user experiences through breadth and depth of innovation across key technology areas.
Intel’s Technology Pillars
Intel helped define and build the modern world of computing. But today, our greatest advancements are centered around data. Innovating across multiple technology pillars, we are creating a world where architects can choose the best type of compute for the job and deploy it anywhere.
Where developers can work effortlessly across hardware types. And where data flows freely without hitting bottlenecks. The end result: giving our customers access to richer, more actionable data that yields greater insights and better solutions.
Innovation Leaders in Process and Packaging
Intel is creating an exciting new paradigm for Moore’s Law—with major advances in transistors, packaging, and chip design that are driving gigantic performance leaps in computing. With our unique and unmatched complementary capabilities, Intel is literally redefining what’s possible in the industry.
Diverse Architectures. Unprecedented Choice.
As applications and workloads become more varied and complex, Intel is uniquely positioned to deliver a diverse mix of architectures deployed in CPU, GPU, accelerator and FPGA sockets. As a result, our customers can use the most effective type of compute for the job their doing.
Redefining the Memory and Storage Hierarchy
New data-centric applications and workloads demand innovative memory and storage technologies. With 50+ years of pioneering work, Intel continues to reimagine the increasingly complex memory and storage hierarchy and leads the industry with new storage architectures. We offer a full portfolio of products that deliver exceptional value to our customers.
Interconnect at Hyperscale
In a data-centric world, the dynamic range of interconnect is enormous. Intel delivers leading technologies that scale from microns to miles across all interconnect layers—from on-die and on-package to data center and wireless networks—eliminating bottlenecks to data movement at multiple points.
Security Built on a Foundation of Trust
Intel’s culture and practices help ensure everything we build is designed to the highest level of security, while optimizing performance. From foundation security to workload and data protection to cybersecurity, we never stop innovating to keep our customers safe from today’s constant and evolving threats.
Unified Software. Exponential Innovation.
Intel is creating a number of major unified software advancements through full-stack solutions powered by software that is more performant, open, and productive than ever before. In this way, Intel® software unleashes the full potential of hardware across all workloads, domains and architectures.
More About Intel’s Pillars
Meet Tiger Lake, Intel’s next generation mobile client processor. It features SuperFin, a combination of new transistor technologies, as well as an improved metal stack, for increasing current, lowering voltages, and helping ensure a solid power delivery response.
Intel® Optane™ technology bridges critical capacity and performance gaps in the storage and memory hierarchy to enable a smarter architecture, so businesses can confidently accelerate transactions and time to actionable insights.
Intel delivers technologies that scale from microns to miles across all interconnect layers. Learn more by watching this virtual briefing.
Learn about Intel’s hardware-enabled security solutions, security practices, and initiatives.
At Intel, we see the future as a heterogeneous mix of scalar, vector, matrix, and spatial architectures deployed in CPU, GPU, accelerator, and FPGA sockets. oneAPI is a unified and simplified programming model for this new computing landscape, that delivers uncompromised performance on a base of industry standards and open specifications. Watch this video to learn more.
Learn More About Exciting Intel Innovations In Key Technology Areas
Read Our Tech Blog on Medium
The Intel Tech Blog on Medium includes useful insights and candid perspectives on Intel’s innovation pillars. Stories posted here focus on Intel’s innovations, technical leadership and products, from authors who include Intel executives, fellows, technical directors, and engineers.
How Intel products address the challenges cloud service providers are facing
Wi-Fi OpenRoaming Overview
Wi-Fi networks are everywhere. The number of global Wi-Fi hotspots is expected to reach over 600 million by 2023. Most of these Wi-Fi networks are standalone systems, isolated from the networks around them, and any one person is only allowed to connect to a small number of these networks. Connecting to public Wi-Fi networks is one of the top challenges that the Wi-Fi industry has been facing for many years, and Wi-Fi OpenRoaming is the latest innovation to solve this issue.
Driving Breakthroughs in AI-Based App Performance
Getting more out of existing compute architecture is essential. But how do you accelerate compute-intensive tasks such as neural networks or machine learning, which drive upscaling images, pose recognition, and neural style transfer graphics breakthroughs?
The Bright Future for Silicon Photonics
It’s getting harder to improve the performance of electrical connections between compute, storage, and networking resources, so server interconnects are quickly transitioning to optical I/O. Read more on how Intel is moving information at light speed in datacenters and beyond.
Watch the Architecture All Access Series
With Intel’s Architecture All Access, you’ll get an insightful, fact-filled tour of the world of computer architecture. This master class video series features Intel senior technical leaders discussing the key architectures and technologies that impact today’s world—and the innovations that will shape our future.
Architecture Day 2021
Architecture Day 2021
Intel Chief Architect Raja Koduri, Intel fellows, and architects provided details on the progress Intel is making on its six pillars of technology innovation: process and packaging, architecture, memory, interconnects, security and software.
Intel Labs Day 2020
Intel Labs Day 2020
Intel spotlighted research initiatives across multiple domains where its researchers are striving for orders of magnitude advancements to shape the next decade of computing.
Memory and Storage Moment 2020
Memory and Storage Moment 2020
At Intel’s Memory and Storage 2020 event on Dec. 16, we highlighted six new memory and storage products to help customers meet the challenges of digital transformation, 5G, network transformation, artificial intelligence and the intelligent edge.
Intel Accelerated
Intel Accelerated
Intel is accelerating its annual cadence of innovation with new advancements in semiconductor process and packaging under its IDM 2.0 strategy announced in March 2021. Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger and Dr. Ann Kelleher, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Technology Development, provided a deeper look at Intel’s process and packaging roadmaps.
What!? 80 Million I/O Per Second with a Standard 2U Intel® Xeon® System!
The adoption of NVM Express® SSDs in the data center is unleashing performance that was unprecedented just a few years ago. Since the inception of the SPDK project, the community has demonstrated that it’s possible to build systems capable of millions of IOPS (I/O operations per second) using commodity hardware. Over the last couple of years, we have demonstrated systems capable of over 10 million IOPS (using a single CPU core!), but now we’re ready to significantly advance the state of the art. Yes, 80 Million IOPS.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Why should Intel anchor its product and technology strategy around these technology pillars?
The landscape for computing has evolved dramatically over the past decade. We operate in a world where we generate data at a faster rate than our ability to analyze, understand and help secure it. We see immense demand for computing architectures that evolve rapidly and scale exponentially. And we have a bold engineering vision over the next five years to deliver 10 petaFLOPS of compute and 10 petabytes of data within 10 milliseconds to every person in the world. We believe these six technology pillars are the key enablers for us to drive the needed product innovation to achieve this.
How do Intel’s investments in the technology pillars drive Moore’s Law-like leaps forward in user experience?
In the previous generations, the answer has been that transistor density and Moore’s Law will play the lead role to solve computing problems. But as the process node transitions have slowed from the pace of the previous decades, it is the essence of Moore’s Law that continues to provide new technologies and capabilities to meet the demands of modern computing. The message of Moore’s Law is about more than transistors alone, with the combination of transistors, architectural research, connectivity advancements, faster memory systems, and software working together to drive it forward.
How do the IP and resources in the technology pillars best position Intel to deliver differentiated products?
The sheer volume and breadth of IP available is unprecedented. The scale of these resources gives Intel a differentiated set of technologies in each of these pillars to apply as we drive wave after wave of innovation for client, edge and cloud computing environments. Intel is uniquely positioned to deliver leadership across all six of these pillars, which provides a foundation for sustained innovation nobody else can offer.