Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger on the 15 Year History of AWS and Intel Driving Cloud Innovation
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Intel CEO, Pat Gelsinger, shares his perspectives on the 15 year history of how AWS and Intel have collaborated to advance cloud computing. From custom silicon innovation, to democratizing developer access to AI and ML technologies, to reaching beyond data centers to the edge, the cloud has become a ubiquitous computing model that is accessible to everyone.
My name's Pat Gelsinger, I'm the CEO of Intel,
and I've had a long and wonderful history with AWS.
First in my EMC role, then as CEO of VMware,
and now as the CEO of Intel.
A great partnership over many years.
Well, I recall 15 years ago when I first saw the cloud
and S3 and EC2 emerging,
and my first reaction was, huh, right?
Why do I run it in the cloud versus in the data center?
And all of a sudden, the light bulb went on,
and I said, this will change the industry.
This will change how people use computing.
And wow, that's certainly been the case
over the last 15 years.
Intel and AWS, EC2, have had an incredible journey together,
where AWS is always saying, how can we do a bigger,
bigger module, a bigger node instance type?
So these in particular have been areas
that Intel and AWS have been able to innovate together
in exciting, powerful ways.
And more recently, as we've talked about,
our Intel Foundry services,
and AWS is one of our first customers for those.
So we're quite excited that this partnership
will keep nudging both of us along
to do greater and greater things.
Well, the first time I saw some of the discussions
around AI and SageMaker, it was sort of like, wow,
making AI truly accessible for developers
in a very easy-to-use and powerful way,
and of course, how we could enhance Silicon underneath that
to make it faster, to make it more programmable,
to be able to solve some of the data type
and data size problems associated with AI,
and all of those uniquely being made available
with AWS and Intel working together.
Cloud is becoming this ubiquitous infrastructure,
but all of a sudden, as we start to see 5G
and edge computing, it's how does the cloud go
from being a place, which it largely is today,
but a computing model that truly is available
wherever the customers will want to use it.
I believe this next phase of cloud
isn't just about how we make it bigger and faster,
but it's how we make it truly geographically dispersed,
where cloud goes from being a place
to truly a computing model accessible to all.