Intel, the leading brand in the server and workstation industry, stepped up its efforts to introduce the 4th Generation Xeon Scalable Sapphire Rapids processor family. The company, which wants to offer innovative solutions to its corporate customers, announced the program called Intel On Demand.
Intel On Demand program announced
The program, which emerged with the pay-as-you-go concept, will offer companies the opportunity to remotely intervene in hardware while continuing to benefit from the technologies offered by Intel. In addition, customers will be able to upgrade their machines without replacing the actual hardware or providing additional services to their customers.
Processors produced for the enterprise sector are equipped with various special-purpose accelerators and security technologies that users do not always need. To provide customers with additional hardware flexibility, Intel will sell its processors with some features disabled.
Software Defined Silicon (SDSi) technology will allow Intel to sell fewer processor models and then enable customers or partners to enable certain features if necessary (to use them internally or to offer them as a service). Intel underlined that cloud server customers can offer these technologies for a fee.
Technologies that Intel wants to make available on demand include Software Guard Extensions, Dynamic Load Balancer (DLB), Intel Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA), Intel In-Memory Analytics Accelerator (IAA). The company also announced that Intel In-Memory Analytics Accelerator and Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT) technologies to accelerate certain workloads will also be disabled by default.
It is not yet known how Intel has set up a pricing plan to enable certain features and how much its customers will pay to receive them ‘as a service’. Companies such as H3C, HPE, Inspur, Lenovo, Supermicro, PhoenixNAP and Variscale will collaborate with Intel on the On Demand program.
In recent years, Intel has come up with a similar program for desktop processors. The company, which was subjected to criticism, had to cancel the Intel Upgrade Service program.
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