FEBRUARY 2020 PCWorld 23executive Bob Swan
walked through a series
of announcements
focusing on the
enterprise.
The message? Data,
and the need to process
it. In 2019, there were
38 billion devices
connected to the
network, expected to
increase to 56 billion
devices by 2025, Swan
said. Roughly 75 percent
of those devices will fall
into the IoT category, he
said. About 7 devices
will be owned by one individual, collectively
generating 175 zettabytes of data in 2025. Of
that, half of the data will be generated by
devices at the edge—wearables, cash
registers, connected cars, and the like.
Three emerging technologies are key to
managing that data, Swan said: 5G-speed
networks, artificial intelligence, and the
intelligent edge (or intelligent devices at
the edge). “How do we embed intelligence
into everything we make to enrich the
opportunities for consumers and our
partners?” Swan asked rhetorically.
Intel’s acquisitions in recent years of
Movidius, MobilEye, Nervana, and more
represent the company’s desire to address
those needs. Swan showed off examples of
several in-house Intel technologies from those
subsidiaries that, for example, helped the Red
Cross create better mapping data for areas it
was serving.
Navin Shenoy, Data Platforms Group
executive vice president, brought out Anne
Aaron, director of encoding technologies for
Netflix, to explain how the royalty AV-1 codec,
which the company will deploy this year,
offers 60 percent more data savings versus
the previous technology. Intel’s SVT-AV1
codec, the next generation, will be deployed
at Netflix and other companies in 2020.
Unfortunately, just a fraction of that data,
about 5 percent, is processed by artificial
intelligence, Swan said. One way Intel hopes
to overcome that is through the Intel NeuralIntel chief executive Bob Swan.