
Pay-as-you-go Server Chip Service by Intel (NASDAQ: INTC)
Sapphire Rapids Xeon CPUs now have access
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CIO Applications Europe | Monday, November 28, 2022

Pricing details for the service are yet to be made public.
FREMONT, CA:Sapphire Rapids Xeon CPUs now have access to Intel's (NASDAQ: INTC) new On Demand service, which charges users to access accelerators and other features already included in the server processors. The introduction of Intel's software-defined silicon (SDSi) service heralds a significant change in how consumers will go forward with purchasing and using Intel chips.
The projected launch date for Intel's 4th Generation Xeon Scalable Sapphire Rapids processors is early 2023. Not all users will always require the security measures and specialised accelerators that come with these processors. With its new On Demand service, Intel hopes to reduce the amount of hardware it supplies to customers while giving them the option to practically upgrade their servers on a pay-as-you-go basis.
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Among the technologies that Intel plans to make available on demand are Dynamic Load Balancing (DLB), Software Guard Extensions, Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA), In-Memory Analytics Accelerator, and QuickAssist Technology (QAT).
Due to the fundamentally distinct types of workloads that each On Demand technology addresses, Intel expects that very few customers will require all of them at once. However, as businesses continue to grow their data centres or shift their focus to new endeavours, they might eventually require some. The On-Demand feature will be useful in this situation.
The cost of Intel's On Demand service is unknown to the public. As a substitute, the business altered its Intel On-Demand webpage, which now lists Lenovo as a provider of its consumption and activation models. A single model type will be the focus of companies like HPE and Supermicro.
The consumption model claims to align infrastructure and demand dynamically, in contrast to the activation model, which imposes a one-time price to access additional services.
The On-Demand programme includes H3C, Inspur, Supermicro, PhoenixNAP, Variscale, Lenovo and HPE. It is unclear whether end consumers will be able to buy these devices on the market since Intel's On Demand service is currently only available for server gear. With the EPYC Genoa 9004 CPU lineup, AMD does not provide any such On Demand option; instead, it gives customers access to every capability out of the box.
Customers may pay less with Intel's new On Demand service, but asking them to pay extra for functions that are already included in the CPU could cost Intel. In the current state of the tech sector, the company's Data Centre division will want to prevent this.
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