At the Intel Industrial Summit 2020, Intel introduced a new processor with enhanced internet of things (IoT) capabilities. The 11th Gen Intel Core processors, Intel Atom x6000E series, and Intel Pentium and Celeron N and J series bring new artificial intelligence (AI), security, functional safety, and real-time capabilities to edge customers. With a robust hardware and software portfolio, an unparalleled ecosystem, and 15,000 customer deployments globally, Intel is providing robust solutions for the edge silicon market.
Intel has been working closely with customers to build proofs of concept, optimize solutions, and collect feedback along the way. Innovations delivered with 11th Gen Intel Core processors, Intel Atom x6000E series, and Intel Pentium and Celeron N and J series processors are a response to challenges felt across the IoT industry: edge complexity, the total cost of ownership, and a range of environmental conditions.
Combining a common and seamless developer experience with software and tools like the Edge Software Hub's Edge Insights for Industrial and the Intel Distribution of OpenVINO toolkit, Intel helps customers and developers get to market faster and deliver more powerful outcomes with optimized, containerized packages to enable sensing, vision, automation, and other transformative edge applications. For example, when combined with 11th Gen’s SuperFin process improvements and other enhancements, OpenVINO running on an 11th Gen Core i5 delivers amazing AI performance: up to 2 times faster inferences per second than a prior 8th Gen Core i5-8500 processor when running on just the CPU in each product.2
Building on the recently announced client processors, 11th Gen Core is enhanced specifically for essential IoT applications that require high-speed processing, computer vision, and low-latency deterministic computing. It delivers up to a 23% performance gain in single-thread performance, a 19% gain in multithread performance, and up to a 2.95x performance gain in graphics gen on gen.3 New dual-video decode boxes allow the processor to ingest up to 40 simultaneous video streams at 1080p 30 frames per second and output up to four channels of 4K or two channels of 8K video.
AI-inferencing algorithms can run on up to 96 graphic execution units (INT8) or run on the CPU with vector neural network instructions (VNNI) built-in with Intel Time Coordinated Computing (Intel TCC Technology) and time-sensitive networking (TSN) technologies, 11th Gen processors enable real-time computing demands while delivering deterministic performance across a variety of use cases:
- Industrial sector: Mission-critical control systems (PLC, robotics, etc.), industrial PCs, and human-machine interfaces.
- Retail, banking, and hospitality: Intelligent, immersive digital signage, interactive kiosks, and automated checkout.
- Healthcare: Next-generation medical imaging devices with high-resolution displays and AI-powered diagnostics.
- Smart city: Smart network video recorders with onboard AI inferencing and analytics.
Intel’s 11th Gen Core processors already have over 90 partners committed to delivering solutions to meet customers’ demands.
The Intel Atom x6000E Series and Intel Pentium and Celeron N and J Series Processors represent Intel’s first processor platform enhanced for IoT. They deliver enhanced real-time performance and efficiency, up to 2 times better 3D graphics, a dedicated real-time offload engine, Intel Programmable Services Engine, which supports out-of-band and in-band remote device management, enhanced I/O and storage options and integrated 2.5GbE time-sensitive networking. They can support 4Kp60 resolution on up to three simultaneous displays, meet strict functional safety requirements with the Intel Safety Island, and include built-in hardware-based security. These processors have a variety of use cases, including:
- Industrial: Real-time control systems and devices that meet functional safety requirements for industrial robots and chemical, oil field, and energy grid-control applications.
- Transportation: Vehicle controls, fleet monitoring, and management systems that synchronize inputs from multiple sensors and direct actions in semiautonomous buses, trains, ships, and trucks.
- Healthcare: Medical displays, carts, service robots, entry-level ultrasound machines, gateways, and kiosks that require AI and computer vision with reduced energy consumption.
- Retail and hospitality: Fixed and mobile point-of-sale systems for a retail and quick-service restaurant with high-resolution graphics.
The Intel Atom x6000E series and Intel Pentium and Celeron N and J series already have over 100 partners committed to delivering solutions.
