As part of its ‘developer first’ approach, CEO Pat Gelsinger announced a unified Developer Zone, new oneAPI 2022 toolkits and new oneAPI Centers of Excellence designed to better enable developers to access reference designs, toolkits and other assets across AI, client, cloud, 5G/edge and gaming with an open, standard-based, unified programming environment.
CTO Greg Lavender promised “we’re going to do a better job communicating with developers.”
At the heart of Intel’s catchup is process technology.
“We will maintain, or even go faster, than Moore’s Law for the next decade,” said Gelsinger, who has pledged to implement five process nodes in four years.
The magic formula, he said, is : “EUV + PowerVia + packaging.”
PowerVia puts the power-in/power-out grid under the transistors so reducing silicon area.
Also reducing silicon area when GAA transistors are used will be its RibbonFET technology which will allow Intel to stack GAA transistors of varying sizes.
Gelsinger also introduced the 12th Gen Intel Core processors built on Intel 7 process technology called Alder Lake.
After decades pursuing financial goals, the message from Intel was that tech is back at the heart of everything it does.
“No marketing fluff, just geeky goodness,” concluded Gelsinger.