Quizzing Intel exec Sandra Rivera about generative AI and more

venturebeat.com:

Intel threw a lot of information at us a couple of weeks ago at its Intel Innovation 2023 event in San Jose, California. The company talked a lot about its manufacturing advances, its Meteor Lake chip, and its future schedule for processors. It felt like a heavy download of semiconductor chip information. And it piqued my interest in a variety of ways.

After the talks were done, I had a chance to talk to pick the brain of Sandra Rivera, executive vice president and general manager of the Data Center and AI Group at Intel. She was perhaps the unlucky recipient of my pent-up curiosity about a number of computing topics. Hopefully she didn’t mind.

I felt like we got into some discussions that were broader than one company’s own interests, and that made the conversation more interesting to me. I hope you enjoy it too. There were a lot more things we could have talked about. But sadly for me, and lucky for Rivera, we had to cut it off at 30 minutes. Our topics included generative AI, the metaverse, competition with Nvidia, digital twins, Numenta’s brain-like processing architecture and ore.

Here’s an edited transcript of our interview.

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VentureBeat: I am curious about the metaverse and whether Intel thinks that this is going to be a driver of future demand and whether there’s much focus on things like the open metaverse standards that some folks are talking about, like, say Pixar’s Universal Scene Description technology, which is a 3D file format for interoperability. Nvidia has made been making a big deal about this for