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Dell Technologies Inc. devoted much of its annual conference in Las Vegas this month to defining its artificial intelligence strategy. Through announcements and various executive presentations, the company highlighted a set of networking and infrastructure solutions designed to capitalize on the technology tsunami that has become AI.What that picture looks like now and how it could propel Dell forward was a central focus for theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, as Dell executives, partners and industry analysts offered their insights into how AI is shaping the enterprise computing future during Dell Technologies World 2024

Intel’s ‘Sierra Forest’ transforms AI workloads in modern data centers

As the artificial intelligence space keeps heating up, finding the power to fuel AI technologies has become a pressing concern.With its next generation of Xeon E-core processors, also called “Sierra Forest,” Intel Corp. looks to help companies save time and money as they manage their AI workloads. Intel’s product will be a part of Dell’s newest rollout of hardware focused on AI development.Intel’s Ryan Tabrah delves into how Xeon 6, or Sierra Forest, is helping companies be sustainable

play_circle_outline Maximizing Performance: Dell's 17Ge Platform, Intel Xeon 6 Processors, E-Cores, and Power Savings

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Ryan Tabrah | Intel Corporation

Ryan Tabrah

Corporate Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer Intel

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>> Good evening AI fans, and welcome back to Las Vegas, Nevada. We're here at the end of day two of three days of coverage of Dell Tech World. And it has been quite the show. My name is Savannah Peterson, joined by my fabulous and favorite, Bob, Bob Laliberte. Bob, how you doing?

Bob Laliberte

>> Doing great. Looking forward to, again, wrapping up the show today.

>> You've been out there in the wild all day.

Bob Laliberte

>> It's been great.

>> What did you see? Did you see daylight?

Bob Laliberte

>> No, I have not seen daylight. Seen the inside of the hotel, looks great. A lot of great presentations. A lot of great meetings and information.

>> Yes. I'm assuming you learned a lot. I can't wait to read all of what you've learned. Really excited that we could have a very fun guest to close us out. Someone who's obviously bringing the energy at the end of the day, which is saying something. Ryan Tabrah thank you so much for being here. Did I do that right, abracadabra? Yes, I did. All right. Yes. Ryan from Intel. Thank you so much for being here with us. How are you doing?

Ryan Tabrah

>> Doing great. It's an awesome show. Awesome venue. So just excited to be here.

>> It is. It is. Intel's got some really interesting things going on. Intel's inside my Dell laptop right here. Tell me a little bit about what brings you to Dell Tech World.

Ryan Tabrah

>> So Dell is launching their 17Ge platform, so their R-series 670 and R770, and inside is Intel Xeon 6, and specifically my product Intel Xeon 6 with E-cores.

>> Explain to the crew who may not be as familiar with E-cores as a couple of geeks are up here, what does E-core mean?

Ryan Tabrah

>> It stands for efficiency. So in this generation of Xeon, so Xeon 6, we have Xeon 6 for performance cores and E-cores. Workloads today are bifurcating where you need a lot of performance per thread and then sometimes you need power density, very efficient compute, and this is just being exacerbated by everything that we're talking about here at the show. It's just the big word AI is coming in and scaring everyone, and people are just running out of power. The data center's becoming kind of the bottleneck of being able to innovate in your business.

>> Absolutely. So what sort of workflows and computations are optimized by E-core?

Ryan Tabrah

>> I think the first one out of the gate is any kind of distributed workload, so social media, distributed storage, distributed databases, media, so media transcode, decode.

>> So we need some?

Ryan Tabrah

>> Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. And so you're able to have the same level of compute with a much smaller power footprint in your data center, leaving space for all that other stuff you need to do.

>> Yeah.

Bob Laliberte

>> So quick question for you. I mean that brings up, there's clearly been a lot of talk this week about there's just not going to be enough power. One of the first things organizations need to do is a power assessment. Look at their data center, how much do they have? What applications are running? Which ones do we maybe need to take offline if we want to support our AI initiatives? So when you say this is an efficiency core that you're bringing out, can you put that in real terms? What does that mean for an organization if they're able to deploy a significant volume of the E-core processors in their servers? How much savings are they going to get over maybe prior generations or what they're running now?

Ryan Tabrah

>> Yeah, really it's the easy button for companies to be able to just move their infrastructure kind of to the future gen and again, save space. One of the details we've been sharing is you can go from a second gen Xeon, which is a Cascade Lake system, you would have normally maybe 200 racks of them running your web services and other general compute, you now only need 72 racks of Sierra Forest and you save a megawatt of power.

>> Wow.

Bob Laliberte

>> Wow.

>> That's massive.

Ryan Tabrah

>> Yes.

Bob Laliberte

>> Yeah.

>> So how excited are customers when you tell them that?

Ryan Tabrah

>> They've been pushing us. They've been pushing us to deliver the product ahead of schedule. They've been pushing us to deliver samples early. So there's this huge pent of demand and that's why we've been working very closely with Dell on Sierra Forest.

Bob Laliberte

>> Yeah, that makes sense. So you brought up a good point. You said bringing it out early. One of the underlying themes that I've been hearing at the event is the pace of innovation and how it's accelerating. And I'm hearing stories about organizations bringing things out to market in nine months, what would've taken two years, et cetera, things like that. Maybe you can share or shed a little light on the process that you went through for developing this and was that on an accelerated timeframe? Were you able to bring it to market sooner than anticipated, et cetera? What does that mean for the team at home that's working on it? And that kind of thing.

Ryan Tabrah

>> Yeah, absolutely. We had a lot of goals of first doing a lot of pre-silicon work with software and simulation models. But again, if you want the easy button to happen when people deploy your product you have to understand the workloads, you have to have definitional partners that you work with so that as you power on your systems internally you're doing test cycles much earlier than you normally would in a much faster timeframe. And then you pass through different engineering milestones much quicker, but delivering the same high quality that people expect from an Intel system or a Dell system. And this has benefited not only ourselves internally, it's way more fun to hit the left edge of all of your targeted windows of when you're trying to launch. But also just as we get closer to launch, customers just want it yesterday and then you're able to deliver on those early samples.

>> So everyone obviously wants everything from you as fast as possible. Accelerated rate of innovation, we're talking about it the whole time. You're a leader managing a team of engineers who have to be moving really super fast and also learning and adapting and adopting at a rate far quicker than we've seen in any other technological revolution. How do you keep them pumped up and able to satisfy that craving?

Ryan Tabrah

>> Yeah, I think with all the amazing people at Intel and across Dell that have made this possible, it's really just creating that sense of team and having a little fun while you do it.

>> God forbid, yeah.

Ryan Tabrah

>> The code name for the Xeon 6 for E-core is Sierra Forest, and so we have the forestry stickers that we hand out, people have it on their laptops.

>> It's on your lapel today.

Ryan Tabrah

>> Yeah, your lapel. We even say, may the forest be with you. It's kind of fun.

Bob Laliberte

>> Nice.

Ryan Tabrah

>> So it's a lot of fun. And we want people to have that sense that the product is going to deliver, but also that it means something. That we're making data centers more sustainable.

>> Absolutely.

Ryan Tabrah

>> We're allowing people to be able to innovate with less of a power footprint and people can decide what they do with the power savings.

>> Absolutely. Sustainability is such a big theme here too. Curious about the Sierra Forest as a code name, how'd y'all come up with that?

Ryan Tabrah

>> Sometimes it's just happenstance we pick a certain geographical location and then you go through and you find, hey, this doesn't conflict with some other kind of code name you have in the company. And the forest brand internally and with our customers resonates because, again, it's efficiency core, energy efficient sustainability, and it is just kind of fun. It kind resonates.

>> Goes to the forest with the trees too, and you're doing all this strategy.

Bob Laliberte

>> It's very green.

Ryan Tabrah

>> And it's high core count, so you do, you get very dense, high throughput.

Bob Laliberte

>> Speaking of core and density, did you happen to bring one of these with you that you'd like to share with the viewing audience?

Ryan Tabrah

>> I did. This is our 144 core variant. So this is Sierra Forest SP or Xeon 6 that Dell will be shipping in their R series. And this is a revolutionary step in delivering dense compute and just the easy button of people to be able to take their existing systems and be able to consolidate their servers.

Bob Laliberte

>> Yeah, makes a ton of sense. One of the things I also wanted to ask you about is when you were talking about the development you brought in Dell quite a bit, was this something that you collaborated with them on or was this something you developed solely by yourselves?

Ryan Tabrah

>> No, we did. Dell from day one was very front-footed with us. They saw the potential of this. They had a growing base of customers that were demanding this type of compute. You can use this for a earing.

>> I know. Yeah. Yeah. We'll just mod it. We'll just stick it on my . I'd be happy to. I'll wear your swag anytime.

Ryan Tabrah

>> Next time I'll bring two. They wanted to partner with us, and so they were with us every step of the way, and we worked together with their engineers very closely during power on, and they gave us great feedback. And yeah, we're excited that we're here at this show today and they're able to take orders, they're able to give samples to customers, and that's really what we want to talk about is that customers know that it's available and people want to start kicking the tires on it.

>> Do you have everyone across verticals knocking on your door?

Ryan Tabrah

>> We do. Of course, our targeted segment was cloud workloads, cloud service providers.

Bob Laliberte

>> Makes sense.

Ryan Tabrah

>> That was kind of the easy button. But as you bring a product to market, and with the changes that have happened over the past 9 to 12 months in data centers I think that more people are looking at it in new and unique ways. So for instance, we're getting a lot of traction in networking and storage areas and even kind of edge inference, social media app type of applications. So we're excited as customers get more units in their hands and testing it out. We're just excited how they use it. Again, it's just the easy button of saving power and TCO.

>> You're really making it sound easy. We were talking about making this a drinking game every time you said AI. I think every time you said easy button tonight would've been a little more damaging to our ability to articulate.

Ryan Tabrah

>> I've been doing good too, I didn't say...

>> You're doing so good.

Ryan Tabrah

>> Yeah, I know.

>> You don't even have to say the acronym.

Ryan Tabrah

>> I know.

>> You've done a really great job. I'm super impressed. Super impressed. What can we expect next?

Ryan Tabrah

>> We have our main launch for Xeon 6 coming up in a couple of weeks.

>> Exciting. Congratulations.

Ryan Tabrah

>> Exciting. I think you're going to see a lot more customers talking about it. I think it's going to be disruptive in the market. We then also are following up very quickly with our PCOR offering of Xeon 6, which is going to be even more massive and it's going to be also disruptive in the hyperscaler market. And for HPC and AI workloads, there I said it. And then we're going to iterate very quickly. So I think that quickly following this initial launch later in 2025, we're going to have a socket software pin compatible update version of our Xeon 6 for E-core. And customers are just excited, they have an investment in this and they have a long tailwind to look of just continuous innovation just coming to the data center to drive consolidation of workloads.

>> And a roadmap they can depend on.

Ryan Tabrah

>> Exactly.

>> From a partner they've trusted for decades.

Ryan Tabrah

>> Yep.

>> A lovely little... So we've been doing things a little different on theCUBE today, which is quite fun. We got Mr. Dell himself to say hello to my mother. So is there anyone that you would like to say hi to your family at home watching perhaps?

Ryan Tabrah

>> Well, I think Michael Dell is very smart in always saying, hi, mom. So yes. Hi, mom.

>> What do you hope that AI does for your mom? Or makes easier or better?

Ryan Tabrah

>> I think technology. So it's not just AI. AI is a fancy word.

>> It's a tool.

Ryan Tabrah

>> I do think that for everyone's parents as they get older, you want things just to be easier for them and simpler to understand, and it just makes the golden years of their life as special as they deserve because they've given so much, they've given up so much for you. Right?

>> Yeah.

Ryan Tabrah

>> My mom worked hard. Both my parents had to work and she said she remembers falling asleep on the couch. She worked really hard to enable me to get to where I'm at. She's a great grandmother. And I would love for her just to be super easy and all the medical problems being just fixed along the way. Yeah.

Bob Laliberte

>> Yeah.

>> I love it. She must be very proud of you hearing you say that today.

Ryan Tabrah

>> Yeah.

Bob Laliberte

>> And hopefully it'll be some of those breakthroughs and help will be based on the server, the processor technology that you've developed.

Ryan Tabrah

>> Absolutely. I'm excited to be able to say that a majority of these type of workloads that everyone's using, social media apps and stuff will be the backbone foundation of the internet will be running on these products. It'll be fun.

>> Oh, yeah. It's going to be a lot of fun. What else gets you stoked? All right. Outside of making mom's life smooth and seamless and providing easy buttons, and I'm not going to say the two letter acronym, what else gets you really excited about this technological moment that we're all experiencing? Because it is a little different than some of the other big moments we've had.

Ryan Tabrah

>> I think some of the engineers I work with inside Intel and even some of the engineers I work with across Dell and the people we work with, it's so fun spending time with them and seeing the culmination of all this hard work come out and being utilized and it just being successful. So I think from the folks in our fabs pumping out the first Xeon on Intel 3 to the person, making sure the samples get out on time, making sure that the software is running, fixing issues last minute. I mean, everyone's been giving up a lot of family time and extra time, late nights, and it's all culminating to this point. It pumps me up. I love it.

Bob Laliberte

>> That's awesome. And I'm thinking that there's going to be a lot of people watching this out there who have their own massive environment that are highly dense. They're going to be pretty stoked about getting a megawatt of savings from switching over to this new processor and thinking about all the things they can do with that additional power and the difference it'll make to their business.

>> Yeah, 100%. A lot of people happy with that. Hopefully a lot of folks not having to work too many late nights because they're getting time back thanks to the AI enabled... Well, and just the tools and the workflows enabled by the tech that you're creating.

Ryan Tabrah

>> You got to work hard and play hard.

>> Exactly.

Ryan Tabrah

>> Part of it too is video games and there's going to be a lot of gaming companies using these processors to transcode video and be able to deliver to more users and stuff. So that's also exciting, which I love playing video games with my kids.

Bob Laliberte

>> Absolutely.

>> What's your favorite game?

Ryan Tabrah

>> Right now it's VALORANT. It's a Riot game. It's called VALORANT, and it's a pretty fun game with my kids. It's a good family moment to play together.

>> Who usually wins?

Ryan Tabrah

>> My daughter, who's the youngest. But we play together as a team, as a family team.

>> Oh, nice.

Ryan Tabrah

>> And so we make friends online and it's a fun family moment that I can do even when I'm not home, when I'm traveling. So, it's fun.

Bob Laliberte

>> That's awesome.

Ryan Tabrah

>> Get to spend time with the kids.

>> Ways to stay connected. I do think that this technological era that we're in right now, as much as technology can isolate us, just look at this edge device, it can also really bring us together and make us feel less lonely. Loneliness epidemic being such a thing, especially as road warriors. Really nice that you can connect that way.

Bob Laliberte

>>

>> This has been really wonderful. This has been a fantastic way-

Ryan Tabrah

>> Thanks for having me at the end of a long day. I know it's long.

Bob Laliberte

>> You're welcome. It's great.

>> Hey, Ryan, you made it feel like you were the first interview of the day. You brought just the energy of Michael Dell that we had earlier today, so don't worry, this was equally as exciting. Always nice to... Oh, yeah. Go.

Bob Laliberte

>> I was just going to say, how do you feel that you've capped off? Michael Dell started it and you finished out the day, bookend you and Michael. All good.

>> And if you want, you can both say hi to my mom. Hey, Robin. We'll say hi to you .

Ryan Tabrah

>> Hey, Robin.

>> All right, Ryan, thank you so much for spending the time. Bob, what a pleasure. I'm glad you were able to join me for this final closing segment. And thank all of you for tuning into this plethora of scintillating segments that we have had all day here from fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada. We're here closing off day two of Dell Tech Week. My name's Savannah Peterson. You're watching theCUBE, the leading source for enterprise tech news.

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>> Good evening AI fans, and welcome back to Las Vegas, Nevada. We're here at the end of day two of three days of coverage of Dell Tech World. And it has been quite the show. My name is Savannah Peterson, joined by my fabulous and favorite, Bob, Bob Laliberte. Bob, how you doing?

Bob Laliberte

>> Doing great. Looking forward to, again, wrapping up the show today.

>> You've been out there in the wild all day.

Bob Laliberte

>> It's been great.

>> What did you see? Did you see daylight?

Bob Laliberte

>> No, I have not seen daylight. Seen the inside of the hotel, looks great. A lot of great presentations. A lot of great meetings and information.

>> Yes. I'm assuming you learned a lot. I can't wait to read all of what you've learned. Really excited that we could have a very fun guest to close us out. Someone who's obviously bringing the energy at the end of the day, which is saying something. Ryan Tabrah thank you so much for being here. Did I do that right, abracadabra? Yes, I did. All right. Yes. Ryan from Intel. Thank you so much for being here with us. How are you doing?

Ryan Tabrah

>> Doing great. It's an awesome show. Awesome venue. So just excited to be here.

>> It is. It is. Intel's got some really interesting things going on. Intel's inside my Dell laptop right here. Tell me a little bit about what brings you to Dell Tech World.

Ryan Tabrah

>> So Dell is launching their 17Ge platform, so their R-series 670 and R770, and inside is Intel Xeon 6, and specifically my product Intel Xeon 6 with E-cores.

>> Explain to the crew who may not be as familiar with E-cores as a couple of geeks are up here, what does E-core mean?

Ryan Tabrah

>> It stands for efficiency. So in this generation of Xeon, so Xeon 6, we have Xeon 6 for performance cores and E-cores. Workloads today are bifurcating where you need a lot of performance per thread and then sometimes you need power density, very efficient compute, and this is just being exacerbated by everything that we're talking about here at the show. It's just the big word AI is coming in and scaring everyone, and people are just running out of power. The data center's becoming kind of the bottleneck of being able to innovate in your business.

>> Absolutely. So what sort of workflows and computations are optimized by E-core?

Ryan Tabrah

>> I think the first one out of the gate is any kind of distributed workload, so social media, distributed storage, distributed databases, media, so media transcode, decode.

>> So we need some?

Ryan Tabrah

>> Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. And so you're able to have the same level of compute with a much smaller power footprint in your data center, leaving space for all that other stuff you need to do.

>> Yeah.

Bob Laliberte

>> So quick question for you. I mean that brings up, there's clearly been a lot of talk this week about there's just not going to be enough power. One of the first things organizations need to do is a power assessment. Look at their data center, how much do they have? What applications are running? Which ones do we maybe need to take offline if we want to support our AI initiatives? So when you say this is an efficiency core that you're bringing out, can you put that in real terms? What does that mean for an organization if they're able to deploy a significant volume of the E-core processors in their servers? How much savings are they going to get over maybe prior generations or what they're running now?

Ryan Tabrah

>> Yeah, really it's the easy button for companies to be able to just move their infrastructure kind of to the future gen and again, save space. One of the details we've been sharing is you can go from a second gen Xeon, which is a Cascade Lake system, you would have normally maybe 200 racks of them running your web services and other general compute, you now only need 72 racks of Sierra Forest and you save a megawatt of power.

>> Wow.

Bob Laliberte

>> Wow.

>> That's massive.

Ryan Tabrah

>> Yes.

Bob Laliberte

>> Yeah.

>> So how excited are customers when you tell them that?

Ryan Tabrah

>> They've been pushing us. They've been pushing us to deliver the product ahead of schedule. They've been pushing us to deliver samples early. So there's this huge pent of demand and that's why we've been working very closely with Dell on Sierra Forest.

Bob Laliberte

>> Yeah, that makes sense. So you brought up a good point. You said bringing it out early. One of the underlying themes that I've been hearing at the event is the pace of innovation and how it's accelerating. And I'm hearing stories about organizations bringing things out to market in nine months, what would've taken two years, et cetera, things like that. Maybe you can share or shed a little light on the process that you went through for developing this and was that on an accelerated timeframe? Were you able to bring it to market sooner than anticipated, et cetera? What does that mean for the team at home that's working on it? And that kind of thing.

Ryan Tabrah

>> Yeah, absolutely. We had a lot of goals of first doing a lot of pre-silicon work with software and simulation models. But again, if you want the easy button to happen when people deploy your product you have to understand the workloads, you have to have definitional partners that you work with so that as you power on your systems internally you're doing test cycles much earlier than you normally would in a much faster timeframe. And then you pass through different engineering milestones much quicker, but delivering the same high quality that people expect from an Intel system or a Dell system. And this has benefited not only ourselves internally, it's way more fun to hit the left edge of all of your targeted windows of when you're trying to launch. But also just as we get closer to launch, customers just want it yesterday and then you're able to deliver on those early samples.

>> So everyone obviously wants everything from you as fast as possible. Accelerated rate of innovation, we're talking about it the whole time. You're a leader managing a team of engineers who have to be moving really super fast and also learning and adapting and adopting at a rate far quicker than we've seen in any other technological revolution. How do you keep them pumped up and able to satisfy that craving?

Ryan Tabrah

>> Yeah, I think with all the amazing people at Intel and across Dell that have made this possible, it's really just creating that sense of team and having a little fun while you do it.

>> God forbid, yeah.

Ryan Tabrah

>> The code name for the Xeon 6 for E-core is Sierra Forest, and so we have the forestry stickers that we hand out, people have it on their laptops.

>> It's on your lapel today.

Ryan Tabrah

>> Yeah, your lapel. We even say, may the forest be with you. It's kind of fun.

Bob Laliberte

>> Nice.

Ryan Tabrah

>> So it's a lot of fun. And we want people to have that sense that the product is going to deliver, but also that it means something. That we're making data centers more sustainable.

>> Absolutely.

Ryan Tabrah

>> We're allowing people to be able to innovate with less of a power footprint and people can decide what they do with the power savings.

>> Absolutely. Sustainability is such a big theme here too. Curious about the Sierra Forest as a code name, how'd y'all come up with that?

Ryan Tabrah

>> Sometimes it's just happenstance we pick a certain geographical location and then you go through and you find, hey, this doesn't conflict with some other kind of code name you have in the company. And the forest brand internally and with our customers resonates because, again, it's efficiency core, energy efficient sustainability, and it is just kind of fun. It kind resonates.

>> Goes to the forest with the trees too, and you're doing all this strategy.

Bob Laliberte

>> It's very green.

Ryan Tabrah

>> And it's high core count, so you do, you get very dense, high throughput.

Bob Laliberte

>> Speaking of core and density, did you happen to bring one of these with you that you'd like to share with the viewing audience?

Ryan Tabrah

>> I did. This is our 144 core variant. So this is Sierra Forest SP or Xeon 6 that Dell will be shipping in their R series. And this is a revolutionary step in delivering dense compute and just the easy button of people to be able to take their existing systems and be able to consolidate their servers.

Bob Laliberte

>> Yeah, makes a ton of sense. One of the things I also wanted to ask you about is when you were talking about the development you brought in Dell quite a bit, was this something that you collaborated with them on or was this something you developed solely by yourselves?

Ryan Tabrah

>> No, we did. Dell from day one was very front-footed with us. They saw the potential of this. They had a growing base of customers that were demanding this type of compute. You can use this for a earing.

>> I know. Yeah. Yeah. We'll just mod it. We'll just stick it on my . I'd be happy to. I'll wear your swag anytime.

Ryan Tabrah

>> Next time I'll bring two. They wanted to partner with us, and so they were with us every step of the way, and we worked together with their engineers very closely during power on, and they gave us great feedback. And yeah, we're excited that we're here at this show today and they're able to take orders, they're able to give samples to customers, and that's really what we want to talk about is that customers know that it's available and people want to start kicking the tires on it.

>> Do you have everyone across verticals knocking on your door?

Ryan Tabrah

>> We do. Of course, our targeted segment was cloud workloads, cloud service providers.

Bob Laliberte

>> Makes sense.

Ryan Tabrah

>> That was kind of the easy button. But as you bring a product to market, and with the changes that have happened over the past 9 to 12 months in data centers I think that more people are looking at it in new and unique ways. So for instance, we're getting a lot of traction in networking and storage areas and even kind of edge inference, social media app type of applications. So we're excited as customers get more units in their hands and testing it out. We're just excited how they use it. Again, it's just the easy button of saving power and TCO.

>> You're really making it sound easy. We were talking about making this a drinking game every time you said AI. I think every time you said easy button tonight would've been a little more damaging to our ability to articulate.

Ryan Tabrah

>> I've been doing good too, I didn't say...

>> You're doing so good.

Ryan Tabrah

>> Yeah, I know.

>> You don't even have to say the acronym.

Ryan Tabrah

>> I know.

>> You've done a really great job. I'm super impressed. Super impressed. What can we expect next?

Ryan Tabrah

>> We have our main launch for Xeon 6 coming up in a couple of weeks.

>> Exciting. Congratulations.

Ryan Tabrah

>> Exciting. I think you're going to see a lot more customers talking about it. I think it's going to be disruptive in the market. We then also are following up very quickly with our PCOR offering of Xeon 6, which is going to be even more massive and it's going to be also disruptive in the hyperscaler market. And for HPC and AI workloads, there I said it. And then we're going to iterate very quickly. So I think that quickly following this initial launch later in 2025, we're going to have a socket software pin compatible update version of our Xeon 6 for E-core. And customers are just excited, they have an investment in this and they have a long tailwind to look of just continuous innovation just coming to the data center to drive consolidation of workloads.

>> And a roadmap they can depend on.

Ryan Tabrah

>> Exactly.

>> From a partner they've trusted for decades.

Ryan Tabrah

>> Yep.

>> A lovely little... So we've been doing things a little different on theCUBE today, which is quite fun. We got Mr. Dell himself to say hello to my mother. So is there anyone that you would like to say hi to your family at home watching perhaps?

Ryan Tabrah

>> Well, I think Michael Dell is very smart in always saying, hi, mom. So yes. Hi, mom.

>> What do you hope that AI does for your mom? Or makes easier or better?

Ryan Tabrah

>> I think technology. So it's not just AI. AI is a fancy word.

>> It's a tool.

Ryan Tabrah

>> I do think that for everyone's parents as they get older, you want things just to be easier for them and simpler to understand, and it just makes the golden years of their life as special as they deserve because they've given so much, they've given up so much for you. Right?

>> Yeah.

Ryan Tabrah

>> My mom worked hard. Both my parents had to work and she said she remembers falling asleep on the couch. She worked really hard to enable me to get to where I'm at. She's a great grandmother. And I would love for her just to be super easy and all the medical problems being just fixed along the way. Yeah.

Bob Laliberte

>> Yeah.

>> I love it. She must be very proud of you hearing you say that today.

Ryan Tabrah

>> Yeah.

Bob Laliberte

>> And hopefully it'll be some of those breakthroughs and help will be based on the server, the processor technology that you've developed.

Ryan Tabrah

>> Absolutely. I'm excited to be able to say that a majority of these type of workloads that everyone's using, social media apps and stuff will be the backbone foundation of the internet will be running on these products. It'll be fun.

>> Oh, yeah. It's going to be a lot of fun. What else gets you stoked? All right. Outside of making mom's life smooth and seamless and providing easy buttons, and I'm not going to say the two letter acronym, what else gets you really excited about this technological moment that we're all experiencing? Because it is a little different than some of the other big moments we've had.

Ryan Tabrah

>> I think some of the engineers I work with inside Intel and even some of the engineers I work with across Dell and the people we work with, it's so fun spending time with them and seeing the culmination of all this hard work come out and being utilized and it just being successful. So I think from the folks in our fabs pumping out the first Xeon on Intel 3 to the person, making sure the samples get out on time, making sure that the software is running, fixing issues last minute. I mean, everyone's been giving up a lot of family time and extra time, late nights, and it's all culminating to this point. It pumps me up. I love it.

Bob Laliberte

>> That's awesome. And I'm thinking that there's going to be a lot of people watching this out there who have their own massive environment that are highly dense. They're going to be pretty stoked about getting a megawatt of savings from switching over to this new processor and thinking about all the things they can do with that additional power and the difference it'll make to their business.

>> Yeah, 100%. A lot of people happy with that. Hopefully a lot of folks not having to work too many late nights because they're getting time back thanks to the AI enabled... Well, and just the tools and the workflows enabled by the tech that you're creating.

Ryan Tabrah

>> You got to work hard and play hard.

>> Exactly.

Ryan Tabrah

>> Part of it too is video games and there's going to be a lot of gaming companies using these processors to transcode video and be able to deliver to more users and stuff. So that's also exciting, which I love playing video games with my kids.

Bob Laliberte

>> Absolutely.

>> What's your favorite game?

Ryan Tabrah

>> Right now it's VALORANT. It's a Riot game. It's called VALORANT, and it's a pretty fun game with my kids. It's a good family moment to play together.

>> Who usually wins?

Ryan Tabrah

>> My daughter, who's the youngest. But we play together as a team, as a family team.

>> Oh, nice.

Ryan Tabrah

>> And so we make friends online and it's a fun family moment that I can do even when I'm not home, when I'm traveling. So, it's fun.

Bob Laliberte

>> That's awesome.

Ryan Tabrah

>> Get to spend time with the kids.

>> Ways to stay connected. I do think that this technological era that we're in right now, as much as technology can isolate us, just look at this edge device, it can also really bring us together and make us feel less lonely. Loneliness epidemic being such a thing, especially as road warriors. Really nice that you can connect that way.

Bob Laliberte

>>

>> This has been really wonderful. This has been a fantastic way-

Ryan Tabrah

>> Thanks for having me at the end of a long day. I know it's long.

Bob Laliberte

>> You're welcome. It's great.

>> Hey, Ryan, you made it feel like you were the first interview of the day. You brought just the energy of Michael Dell that we had earlier today, so don't worry, this was equally as exciting. Always nice to... Oh, yeah. Go.

Bob Laliberte

>> I was just going to say, how do you feel that you've capped off? Michael Dell started it and you finished out the day, bookend you and Michael. All good.

>> And if you want, you can both say hi to my mom. Hey, Robin. We'll say hi to you .

Ryan Tabrah

>> Hey, Robin.

>> All right, Ryan, thank you so much for spending the time. Bob, what a pleasure. I'm glad you were able to join me for this final closing segment. And thank all of you for tuning into this plethora of scintillating segments that we have had all day here from fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada. We're here closing off day two of Dell Tech Week. My name's Savannah Peterson. You're watching theCUBE, the leading source for enterprise tech news.