Intel Innovation 2022: Live updates from the launch of Raptor Lake | digital trends

Intel Innovation’s opening keynote is over, but Gelsinger has already surfaced in the show’s wrap-up and spoke about the energy in the room and some of the main themes of the show. Gelsinger is such a well-known figure in the industry and his roots as a developer who started his career at Intel continue to be mentioned and highlighted as core to Intel’s new identity.

Intel has brought a special guest, Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel. Gelsginer gave him an autographed copy of the book he wrote on x86 development, which Torvalds said developing Linux himself was his way. Torvalds spoke about his upbringing, calling himself a “loafing engineer” rather than someone with a grand vision for the future of open source technology. Gelsinger ended the segment by presenting Torvalds with the first Intel Innovation Award for his contribution to the open source community.

The head of Samsung Display was brought onto the stage to present the world’s first PC with a sliding display. Seeing the screen pull right out was a pretty nice demo, even if it was just a static image. The tablet is essentially going from a 13-inch screen to a 17-inch, which looks pretty handy. The Samsung representative mentioned this as the next step forward in display innovation of folding displays, which are available in some products right now.

Finally the moment we’ve been waiting for! Gelsinger has officially announced the 13th generation Raptor Lake chip family. The big features are upgraded E and P cores, which Gelsinger says combine in this hybrid architecture to deliver the best single-threaded and multi-threaded performance. Up to 5.8 GHz on the high-end chip, even a 6 GHz model is expected to hit the market in 2023.

A developer from Inflexion Games was brought on stage to show how Intel’s hybrid architecture supports development. The developer is working on the game Nightingale and has mentioned that in game development they can often only have one instance of the game world open at a time, but in this system they can have up to four or even eight instances on the stage open at the same time, which is noisy Developers can significantly speed up development.

Gelsinger and his crew demonstrate how AI modeling can be applied to coffee harvesters and train a model to get better yields from coffee beans. Gelsinger has announced that Intel Getti will benefit from giving more developers and industries the ability to create computer vision models. The next demo is Chipotle, and in this case, it will be showing computer vision models helping restaurants keep inventory levels, ingredients fresh, and even order accuracy, all run from small form factor Edge devices . Intel cameras are mounted above the service lines and can see the ingredients in real time. Chipotle’s CTO was featured in a video clip noting that a full deployment of Intel technology will hit a big market in the coming months.

Gelsinger brought a colleague on stage to present her career, talk about Intel’s commitment to an open ecosystem and show some AI demos on 4th Gen Intel Xeon processors, but let’s briefly talk about what the company makes with the Arc A770. Gelsinger specifically mentioned how many people today complain about the average price of GPUs and that Intel’s answer to this problem is the $329 A770. How these cards will ultimately perform has yet to be determined, but the message is clear: Intel wants to counter what Nvidia is doing with its sky-high graphics prices by launching its first gaming GPU as something the average PC feels -Gamer can actually afford.

Next we will talk about graphics. Gelsinger mentions that graphics have always been a passion of his and now that he’s back he wants to finish. He announced the Intel Data Center GPU Flex and held up the product for presentation. Next, Gelsinger presented the Ponte Vecchio for powerful supercomputers and ended up with the Arc A770 card for gamers. Gelsinger says reviews are already being sent out to reviewers.

Gelsinger talks about everything it takes to power the future of computing. In addition to the four main discussion points, Gelsinger addresses UCIe, the Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express, an open standard that all major foundries have agreed to. Short video clips were shown from Samsung and TSMC pledged their partnership in supporting UCIe.

Gelsinger talks about the ubiquitous technological superpowers of the modern world, including using the example of his own hearing aid, which he pulled out of his ear. As an example of Intel’s contribution to this technology, he goes on to proudly point out that Moore’s Law is not dead as other companies have claimed. Gelsinger says Intel wants to be the guardians of Moore’s Law. Intel has brought its node roadmap to the screen to remind us how aggressively the company is moving forward with nodes.

After a delightful old-school introduction, CEO Pat Gelsinger takes the stage in front of the live audience. This is the first tech event that feels like the tech events of the old days, and it fills me with nostalgic warmth.