Vision Highlights: Intel Spotlights Customer Deployments on the Main Stage

April 1, 2025 Published

Intel executives, customers and partners take the stage on Day 2 to showcase client and enterprise solutions in action.

On the second day of Intel Vision, more than 700 customers and partners came together to hear directly from their industry peers about how Intel products help address their most complex challenges and enable effective business outcomes.

“Yesterday you heard from Lip-Bu that our work is not over, that we have to continue to do a lot of hard work,” said Christoph Schell, executive vice president and chief commercial officer at Intel, echoing sentiments shared by new Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan during Day 1 of the event in Las Vegas. “It is our No. 1 job to make you successful.”

“Everything we do starts and ends with you – our customers,” said Michelle Johnston Holthaus, CEO of Intel Products, as she affirmed Tan's Day 1 focus of a customer-centric approach, the importance of listening and partnerships. “We are laser-focused on understanding your biggest challenges, your needs and most important, your opportunities … then innovating to design world-class products and solutions that help you accelerate your businesses.”

Event Press Kit: Intel Vision 2025

Schell additionally outlined three focus areas that will further enhance customer successes and strengthen Intel’s vibrant ecosystem:

  • Reinforcing Intel’s commitment to x86 architecture.
  • Maintaining critical growth investments while optimizing internal organizational structures that prioritize and better serve customer needs as a more agile company.
  • Revamping Intel’s go-to-market strategy with a focus on enabling ecosystem and regions to enhance customer collaboration.

These changes reflect Intel's dedication to responsiveness and customer-centric innovation.

Customer Success with Intel Technology

Intel products are helping companies transform their businesses to pioneer new experiences for their customers – from transporting people in new ways to new places to massively scaling critical infrastructure.

Here are a few customer-driven solutions featured on the main stage during Day 2 of Vision 2025:

EdgeRunner AI: Offering a state-of-the-art, air-gapped generative AI platform, EdgeRunner AI delivers personalized AI agents on-device with natural language processing, akin to a human conversation. Specifically developed for military use, the EdgeRunner Athena technology offers both defense and enterprise users a hyper-personalized assistant powered by AI agents that functions independently of internet connectivity.

In collaboration with Intel, EdgeRunner has optimized Athena to run efficiently on Intel’s latest processors, including the Intel® Core™ Ultra 200V series, leveraging Intel’s OpenVINO™ tool kit. This integration ensures optimized model inference, reduced latency and seamless integration into existing systems, providing enhanced AI performance on common enterprise tool sets.

“Intel has been amazing, and what I really like about the entire Intel ecosystem is they’ve been leaning in with our engineering team,” said Tyler Saltsman, CEO of EdgeRunner AI. “They help us to optimize our different agents so they can inference more efficiently utilizing Intel’s OpenVINO toolkit, as well as the latest architecture. … There’s a reason Intel owns 80% of the market for a reason. They’re the most trusted by the Department of Defense, and they’re the most stable and secure – it’s the best customer experience to live on the Intel devices.”

Inflection AI: Inflection AI’s enterprise-grade AI system, Inflection for Enterprise, provides the control, customization and scalability required for complex, large-scale deployments. Powered by Intel® Gaudi® AI accelerators and Intel® Tiber™ AI Cloud, Inflection for Enterprise enables its customers to harness a comprehensive AI solution that empowers workforces with virtual AI co-workers specifically trained on unique company data, policies and culture.

“Scaling AI, you need to focus on efficiency and that’s why we’ve worked closely with Intel engineers to optimize every single aspect of the way the pipelines and the inference runs on Gaudi hardware,” said Ted Shelton, chief operating officer at Inflection AI. “We are now running our models at a performance level that is on par with the H100 on Gaudi 2, and not on Gaudi 3 – which is what we’re starting now.”

Kamiwaza AI: Powered by Intel® Xeon® 6 processors and Intel Gaudi AI accelerators, the Kamiwaza AI platform is transforming how organizations extract value from their most complex and sensitive data assets. Using the platform, Government Acquisition works with government agencies to deploy and process more than 90 years’ worth of U.S. weather-related data from automated surface observing system sensors in minutes – a task that when done manually could take days or weeks. Its team is able to use the data to analyze and detect weather anomalies – like hurricanes or tornadoes – to quickly and accurately inform emergency preparedness and response across the country.

It wasn’t just the performance of the platform that intrigued Sunny Wescott, a federal chief meteorologist, about the use of Kamiwaza AI and Intel technology: “Given our focus on the environment, efficiency was extremely important to us in selecting an AI solution. When the Kamiwaza team showed us Intel’s Gaudi accelerators and Xeon 6, we knew we could get the energy and water efficiency we needed.”

Softtek: Softtek helps companies convert data into actionable insights via its digital platforms across a multitude of industry sectors, including financial, transportation, food service and professional sports. With its Intel Gaudi-powered AI platform FRIDA, Softtek increases the speed of its software development life cycle by up to 40%. Additionally, the platform helps to enhance the efficiency of business functions – such as automation, real-time analytics and virtual agents – for Softtek clients.

“We have this partnership in which we [Intel and Softtek] together can bring solutions that accelerate AI transformation across Latin America and the United States,” said Blanca Treviño, president, co-founder and CEO of Softtek. “We use Intel advanced technologies to drive our client’s business forward. … With Intel technologies, we can deliver on the promise to improve performance, optimize cost and create future-ready solutions.”

Zoox: Zoox develops driverless vehicles that provide mobility-as-a-service. Presented on video, Zoox CEO Aicha Evans joined Holthaus on a driverless experience powered by the Intel Xeon platform.

Steering Intel Foundry to the Future and Ecosystem Strategy

Kevin O’Buckley, senior vice president and general manager of Foundry Services, discussed progress on building Intel Foundry’s customer-centric culture, and shared that the Intel 18A manufacturing technology has formally entered “risk production” – the final stage before volume production begins in the second half of this year. O’Buckley also looked ahead to Intel Foundry Direct Connect, Intel Foundry’s flagship customer event on April 29 in San Jose, Calif.

Toward the end of the session, there was a reference to Microsoft's announcement of a new strategic collaboration of Intel, Azure and F5 that is designed to deliver unmatched performance and security across cloud, hybrid and on-premises environments.

Forward-Looking Statements

This release contains forward-looking statements, including with respect to our business plans and strategy and anticipated benefits therefrom; the process health of Intel 18A, the anticipated timing for the launch and volume production of Panther Lake, and the anticipated timing of customer tape-outs on Intel 18A. Such statements involve many risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied, including those associated with: the high level of competition and rapid technological change in our industry; the significant long-term and inherently risky investments we are making in R&D and manufacturing facilities that may not realize a favorable return; the complexities and uncertainties in developing and implementing new semiconductor products and manufacturing process technologies; our ability to time and scale our capital investments appropriately and successfully secure favorable alternative financing arrangements and government grants; implementing new business strategies and investing in new businesses and technologies; changes in demand for our products; macroeconomic conditions and geopolitical tensions and conflicts, including geopolitical and trade tensions between the U.S. and China, the impacts of Russia's war on Ukraine, tensions and conflict affecting Israel, and rising tensions between mainland China and Taiwan; the evolving market for products with AI capabilities; our complex global supply chain, including from disruptions, delays, trade tensions and conflicts, or shortages; product defects, errata and other product issues, particularly as we develop next-generation products and implement next-generation manufacturing process technologies; potential security vulnerabilities in our products; increasing and evolving cybersecurity threats and privacy risks; IP risks including related litigation and regulatory proceedings; the need to attract, retain, and motivate key talent; strategic transactions and investments; sales-related risks, including customer concentration and the use of distributors and other third parties; our significantly reduced return of capital in recent years; our debt obligations and our ability to access sources of capital; complex and evolving laws and regulations across many jurisdictions; fluctuations in currency exchange rates; changes in our effective tax rate; catastrophic events; environmental, health, safety, and product regulations; our initiatives and new legal requirements with respect to corporate responsibility matters; and other risks and uncertainties described in this release, our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and our other filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). All information in this release reflects management's expectations as of the date of this release, unless an earlier date is specified. We do not undertake, and expressly disclaim any duty, to update such statements, whether as a result of new information, new developments, or otherwise, except to the extent that disclosure may be required by law.

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