Intel's more than a year of layoffs has finally ended, with a new correction in the direction of manpower refinement and strategic objectives, a gradual increase in operations, a Better-than-expected 3rd-quarter performance rally, and an optimistic forecast for the 4th quarter and Full-year performance. Not only is Intel still dominant in the PC and data center platforms, but it is also fully open in new fields such as AI, Internet and 5G, which is expected to offset Intel's decline in PC tradition in 2018 by leveraging technology, marketing and eco-chain integration to rapidly boost power. Intel announced in April 2016 that it would cut its workforce by about 11%, when Intel estimated about 130,000 employees worldwide, and about 12,000 people were abolished, causing confusion in supply chain management, and after a year of restructuring the transition period, Intel has been operating progressively since the second half of 2017. Supply chain industry believes that despite the growth in PC market, Qualcomm (QUALCOMM), Ultra Micro (AMD), Nvidia and other large-scale looting into the data center platform battlefield, however, Intel has sacrificed a number of innovative technology and platform products, and work closely with the global supply chain, the rival group has so far been difficult to shake the Intel PC, Data center platform two major profit pillars. In the PC battle, Intel decided to work together to suppress Nvidia sitting big, checks and balances the dominance of the graphics chip market dominated the situation of the electricity competition, and compared with the prior to Nvidia to sign the GPU licensing mode, Intel and micro-cooperation did not explain too much, only announced the adoption of embedded multi-grain interconnect bridge ( EMIB) Packaging Technology, integrated H-series processor Kaby Lake, micro-independent drawing card and HBM2 memory and so on. Intel more angle-digging ultra-micro drawing chip trader Raja Koduri, in addition to being appointed as the chief architect, and also to the new core and Visual computing business Group and Edge Computing solution, it is evident that Intel will restart the standalone graphics chip business to hinder Nvidia's attempt to dominate the high margin competition market. Based on the 90% advantage of the NB platform processor market, and the 80% DT layout, combined with the overall enhanced graphics chip technology research and development strength, 2018 from the PC market revenue, profit should be able to keep a balanced performance. And in the context of the key Data center platform for the development of AI and IoT, Intel has a global footprint of over 90%, including Nvidia, Qualcomm, Ultra Micro and IBM in recent years, in which Nvidia emphasizes the effectiveness of its GPU parallel computing technology to win Intel, And the Ultra micro also starts with the new EPYC series processor, IBM is the lock AI application launches the next generation processor Power9, as well as the first support OPENCAPI New Generation Data Center Server architecture Power Systems AC922, Can greatly shorten the depth of learning artificial neural network training time. Google first published in 2016 machine learning Chip TPU, recently dug corners Intel Data Center Career general Diane Bryant, Google development AI own chip and control cloud Big data battle attempt heart quite obvious. Despite the fact that the various teams have been fully robbed of the data center platform battlefield, Intel's 3rd-quarter earnings are still growing, with Intel's technology and tight ecosystem consolidation advantages, and its rivals in the short term, Intel's 2018 data center performance will remain growth. Looking ahead to 2018, Intel has continued to gain the advantage of the PC and data center platform market, in the automatic driving, robotics, intelligent city, such as the new battlefield of AI and things will also be fully fired, the opportunity to offset the traditional areas of PC recession, year-round performance flat up. For the 5G technology war that will break out in 2020, Intel has also been deployed in advance, from terminals to clouds are focused on 5G, a number of important technologies are being developed, such as NFV technology has been built, to gradually lay the foundation for 5G. In addition, Intel is also involved in a number of 5G standards, and has worked with a number of telecom and equipment manufacturers to set up an Intel Network Builders Network Eco-Cooperative group, including equipment, software, application services and more than 200 industries to create 5G network, development and testing, such as dynamic network slicing, Multi-access edge operation, millimeter wave and other technologies, together to promote 5G and services.
