Intel chief executive officer Brian Krzanich displays the ISDF audience an Intel-branded 14nm Stratix 10 FPGA at the inaugural Intel SoC FPGA Developer Forum in San Francisco on Thursday, August 18, 2016. Photo courtesy of Intel Corporation

San Francisco, CA, USA - August 18, 2016

By Dan McNamara
Corporate Vice President and General Manager
of the Programmable Solutions Group (PSG)
at Intel Corporation


Day three of the 2016 Intel Developer Forum included something for the first time: the Intel SoC FPGA Developer Forum.
This one-day, co-located event focused on the Programmable Solutions Group – formerly known as Altera – and its SoC FPGA technology.

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Brian Krzanich, Intel chief executive officer, addresses the audience at the inaugural Intel SoC FPGA Developer Forum in San Francisco on Thursday, August 18, 2016. Photo courtesy of Intel Corporation

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich presented the event keynote, and he answered a variety of questions that many have had since the acquisition:

What does Altera’s acquisition mean for SoC FPGA users?

Where do we go now?

And most important: Are FPGAs and SoC FPGAs here to stay at Intel?

Dan McNamara, corporate vice president and general manager of Intel’s Programmable Solutions Group, addresses the audience at the inaugural Intel SoC FPGA Developer Forum in San Francisco on Thursday, August 18, 2016. Photo courtesy of Intel Corporation

I’d like to summarize some of his remarks and add some of my own perspectives.


FPGAs and the Virtuous Cycle of Growth

Brian made it clear during his keynote that FPGAs are a critical part of Intel’s growth strategy, which is being fueled by the virtuous cycle of growth.

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Intel chief executive officer Brian Krzanich displays the ISDF audience an Intel-branded 14nm Stratix 10 FPGA at the inaugural Intel SoC FPGA Developer Forum in San Francisco on Thursday, August 18, 2016. Photo courtesy of Intel Corporation

In a smart and connected world, all the “things” are able to be captured as a piece of data, measured in real time, and be accessible from anywhere.

Schneider Electric’s chief technology officer Prith Banerjee highlights the value of Intel’s FPGAs and SoC FPGAs within Industrial IoT systems at the inaugural Intel SoC FPGA Developer Forum in San Francisco on Thursday, August 18, 2016. Photo courtesy of Intel Corporation

Technology today, as Brian said, continues to “erase the boundary between the digital and physical worlds” as is evident with the rise of technologies such as virtual reality and artificial intelligence.

Dan McNamara, corporate vice president and general manager of Intel’s Programmable Solutions Group, and Brian Krzanich, Intel chief executive officer, addresses the audience at the inaugural Intel SoC FPGA Developer Forum in San Francisco on Thursday, August 18, 2016. Photo courtesy of Intel Corporation

Intel’s strategy to enable this smart and connected world reaches all the way from the sensors and actuators to the cloud.

And FPGAs and SoC FPGAs will play a central role in enabling this world.

Brian Krzanich, Intel chief executive officer, and Schneider Electric’s chief technology officer Prith Banerjee (right) highlight the value of Intel’s FPGAs and SoC FPGAs within Industrial IoT systems at the inaugural Intel SoC FPGA Developer Forum in San Francisco on Thursday, August 18, 2016. Photo courtesy of Intel Corporation

With the explosion of new “things” will come emerging and diversifying applications and workloads on the data center. The future data centers will need to be more flexible to react to these changing workloads.

A BMW i3 is on display as part of Intel’s Investors Day events at the 2016 Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco on Thursday, August 18, 2016. Photo courtesy of Intel Corporation

And, whether you are managing a new smart and connected factory, a communication service provider, or a cloud network, all of this performance and connectivity will need to be accomplished at efficient power levels, so the ability to dial performance per watt is critical.

Intel’s Doug Davis, senior vice president and general manager of the Internet of Things Group, speaks to investors and media about Intel’s goals in the autonomous vehicle market as part of Intel’s Investors Day events at the 2016 Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco on Thursday, August 18, 2016. Photo courtesy of Intel Corporation

If you sum up these three challenges – the need for more bandwidth and lower latency in our networks, the need for flexibility of our data centers to react to new and changing workloads, and the need to manage performance per watt – all of these three things are key value drivers for FPGAs.

Intel’s Diane Bryant, executive vice president and general manager of the Data Center Group, speaks to investors and media about Intel’s goals in the autonomous vehicle market as part of Intel’s Investors Day events at the 2016 Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco on Thursday, August 18, 2016. Photo courtesy of Intel Corporation

Intel FPGAs break down bottlenecks and accelerate the smart and connected world by delivering greater flexibility, increased intelligence and higher efficiency.

Intel leaders discuss the future of autonomous vehicles during an investor event at the 2016 Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco on Thursday, August 18, 2016. They are (from left): Asha R. Keddy, vice president of the Client and Internet of Things Businesses and Systems Architecture Group and General Manager of Next Generation and Standards; Doug Davis, senior vice president and general manager of the Internet of Things Group; Diane Bryant, executive vice president and general manager of the Data Center Group; and Doug Fisher, senior vice president and general manager of the Software and Services Group. Photo courtesy of Intel Corporation

As a multifunction algorithm accelerator, FPGAs and SoC FPGAs provide the optimum mix of hardware and software programmability.

Intel demonstrates a sophisticated, natural human-machine interface (HMI) prototyping platform for autonomous vehicle research as part of an investor event at the 2016 Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco on Thursday, August 18, 2016. Photo courtesy of Intel Corporation

This allows system designers to create better systems by exploring which workloads work most efficiently across the CPU and FPGA domain.


Enhancing the FPGA Value Proposition

During his keynote, Brian also emphasized Intel’s commitment to investing in and to growing the FPGA business.

Intel is building its own fleet of self-driving cars and showed two test vehicles at an investor event at the 2016 Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco on Thursday, August 18, 2016. Photo courtesy of Intel Corporation

This includes investing in new FPGA and SoC FPGA product roadmaps, supporting long product life cycles, and continuing to provide the service and support that customers have come to expect from Altera.

Jing Wang, senior vice president of Baidu and general manager of its autonomous driving unit, speaks with Intel’s Doug Davis, senior vice president and general manager of the Internet of Things Group, during an investor event at the 2016 Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco on Thursday, August 18, 2016. Photo courtesy of Intel Corporation

Leveraging the operational excellence of Intel will enable the continued development of advanced FPGAs that target a wide variety of markets and applications, as well as derivative products tuned to the specific needs of Intel’s data center and IoT segments.

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich welcomes Elmar Frickenstein, leader of BMW Group’s autonomous driving, to the stage during his keynote at the 2016 Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco on Tuesday, August 16, 2016. Frickenstein arrived on stage in an autonomous BMW i3. Intel, BMW Group and Mobileye are working together to help build a fully autonomous vehicle for the market by 2020. Photo courtesy of Intel Corporation

Intel will continue FPGA development for small systems, constrained but performance-critical systems and ultimate-performance environments – small, medium and large.

Intel’s Craig Raymond displays the Project Alloy virtual reality headset during the Day 1 keynote at the 2016 Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco on Tuesday, August 16, 2016. Intel CEO Brian Krzanich’s keynote presentation offered perspective on the unique role Intel will play as the boundaries of computing continue to expand. Photo courtesy of Intel Corporation

And Intel will target these systems with stand-alone FPGAs, system-in-package solutions that tightly couple FPGAs with CPUs and monolithic SoC FPGAs that integrate both ARM and IA worlds.

Intel’s Craig Raymond displays the Project Alloy virtual reality headset during the Day 1 keynote at the 2016 Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco on Tuesday, August 16, 2016. Intel CEO Brian Krzanich’s keynote presentation offered perspective on the unique role Intel will play as the boundaries of computing continue to expand. Photo courtesy of Intel Corporation

During Brian’s keynote, a walk on by Schneider Electric CTO Prith Banerjee perfectly exemplified the value proposition of FPGAs throughout the virtuous cycle.

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich displays the Aero Ready To Fly drone - a fully-assembled quadcopter with compute board, integrated depth and vision capabilities using Intel RealSense Technology. Krzanich displayed the new quadcopter during his keynote at the 2016 Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco on Tuesday, August 16, 2016. Photo courtesy of Intel Corporation

Prith highlighted Schneider Electric’s selection of Intel FPGAs and SoC FPGAs as an end-to-end solution in its Industrial IoT systems, powering the sensors and devices, networks and the cloud.

Attendees gather and move through the 2016 Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco on Tuesday, August 16, 2016. Photo courtesy of Intel Corporation

Intel FPGAs provide Schneider Electric with the performance, power and flexibility to enable the smart factories of the future.

Brian wrapped up his keynote by showing the audience the latest FPGA from Intel, Stratix 10, based on Intel’s 14nm Tri-Gate process.

Diane M. Bryant, Intel executive vice president and general manager of its Data Center Group, speaks at the 2016 Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco on Wednesday, August 17, 2016. During her keynote, Bryant spoke of the demand on connectivity in an increasingly connected world and announced the start of mass production of Intel Silicon Photonics. Photo courtesy of Intel Corporation

Stratix 10 is a great representation of the type of FPGA innovations that we can deliver to customers, in the areas of performance, system integration and capacity.

The unveiling of Stratix 10 FPGA to the audience also represented a brand transfer from Altera to Intel, as we integrate the Intel brand within our FPGA product portfolio.

Murthy Renduchintala (second from right), president of Intel’s Client and Internet of Things (IoT) Businesses and Systems Architecture Group, is joined by (from left) Tom Keathley, senior vice president at AT&T, Seize Onoe, chief technology officer at Docomo, John Gordon, chief digital officer at Current powered by GE, and high-tech journalist Stacey Higginbotham at the 2016 Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco on Wednesday, August 17, 2016. During his keynote, Renduchintala and the group spoke about the importance of 5G in an increasingly connected world. Photo courtesy of Intel Corporation

Intel FPGAs and SoC FPGAs are here to stay, Brian emphasized.

With Intel’s expanded processor line, together with FPGA technology, we are even better positioned to fuel the virtuous cycle between the cloud and IoT.

Dan McNamara



Dan McNamara

Daniel R. (Dan) McNamara is corporate vice president and general manager of the Programmable Solutions Group (PSG) at Intel Corporation.

Daniel R. (Dan) McNamara Photo courtesy of Intel Corporation

He is responsible for executing a strategy to plan, position and support the company’s programmable hardware, IP, and software solutions and power product portfolio.
He leads the collaboration with other Intel business groups to ensure the successful utilization of programmable technology in other areas of Intel’s business.
He has profit and loss responsibility for PSG, leading a global organization across multiple markets.

McNamara joined Intel in December 2015, upon close of Intel’s acquisition of Altera Corporation.
He served most recently as vice president and general manager of Altera’s Embedded Division leading the teams responsible for programmable technologies for industrial, test and medical, broadcasting, automotive, power, military and broad base market segments.

McNamara has more than 25 years of experience in the semiconductor industry.
In addition to various leadership roles during his 11 years with Altera, McNamara served as director of Sales at StargGen Inc. and as a co-founder and vice president of startup Semitech Solutions Inc.
He began his career as a radar systems engineer at Raytheon Corp. in Massachusetts.

McNamara received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees, both in electrical engineering, from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts.


Source: Intel Newsroom

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