SPONSORED POST: How Intel’s first 18A data center CPU delivers efficiency and TCO gains, with Intel's Kira Boyko
AI workloads are eating into datacenter capacity faster than most operators can add to it, and once the power budget is spent and the racks are full, the wall is a physical one. Server consolidation, once treated as a long-term efficiency project, has become an immediate operational priority.In our latest Hot Seat, Tim Phillips talks to Kira Boyko, product manager at Intel, about how the Intel Xeon 6+ processor with 288 efficient cores has been engineered with core density in mind to address that constraint. Many organizations cannot easily build new datacenters or expand the ones they already have, Boyko explains, particularly at the edge. That makes consolidating legacy servers onto a denser, more efficient platform the practical route to immediate efficiency and TCO gainsIt also recovers space and power budget that the next generation of AI infrastructure will demand.The Intel Xeon 6+ processor is built for that high-density environment, with particular relevance for 5G core and cloud-native use cases.Consolidation and AI expansion, Boyko argues, can no longer be treated as separate exercises. Retiring older server estates onto Intel Xeon 6+ is how operators create the headroom their next AI deployments will require.Watch the Hot Seat for Boyko's view on the case for upgrading, the performance and efficiency gains on offer, and how soon Intel Xeon 6+ can be put to work.
