Intel to Acquire Granulate

[Daniel Nenni]

Thoughts on this acquisition? More investment in Israel.

Granulate’s autonomous optimization software helps drive greater performance and ROI in the cloud and data center.

“Today’s cloud and data center customers demand scalable, high-performance software to make the most of their hardware deployments,” said Sandra Rivera, executive vice president and general manager of the Datacenter and AI Group at Intel. “Granulate’s cutting-edge autonomous optimization software can be applied to production workloads without requiring the customer to make changes to its code, driving optimized hardware and software value for every cloud and data center customer.”

Greg Lavender, chief technology officer, senior vice president and general manager of the Software and Advanced Technology Group at Intel, said: “We are building our portfolio of software optimization tools that offer flexible and scalable capabilities that allow us to meet the growing demand of the ubiquitous compute era. Granulate’s innovative approach to real-time optimization software complements Intel’s existing capabilities by helping customers realize performance gains, cloud cost reductions and continual workload learning.”

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[blueone]

I can see where Granulate fits into Intel's strategy of insulating customers from hardware-specific programming and runtime differences. OneAPI is another example. P-cores and E-cores are probably yet another complication they want to further hide and optimize usage for, beyond Thread Director, which is probably more simplistic than Granulate can be. I'm not an expert in this area, but Granulate looks like the most complete set of autonomous software execution optimizations I've seen.

I do wonder about culture fit into the rest of Intel. In the US especially, Intel culture is company first, team second. In my experience in Israel, the culture is team first, company second.

 

[Daniel Nenni]

AMD, not to be outdone:

AMD to buy cloud startup Pensando for $1.9 billion in data center push

Chip designer Advanced Micro Devices said on Monday it would acquire cloud startup Pensando for $1.9 billion to bolster its data center products and capitalize on booming demand from cloud and enterprise sectors.

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[Daniel Nenni]

I can see where Granulate fits into Intel's strategy of insulating customers from hardware-specific programming and runtime differences. OneAPI is another example. P-cores and E-cores are probably yet another complication they want to further hide and optimize usage for, beyond Thread Director, which is probably more simplistic than Granulate can be. I'm not an expert in this area, but Granulate looks like the most complete set of autonomous software execution optimizations I've seen.

I do wonder about culture fit into the rest of Intel. In the US especially, Intel culture is company first, team second. In my experience in Israel, the culture is team first, company second.

Intel has had great success with acquisitions in Israel so this does not surprise me at all. Habana, Mobileye two name two.

 

[blueone]

Intel has had great success with acquisitions in Israel so this does not surprise me at all. Habana, Mobileye two name two.

Habana and Mobileye were never integrated into Intel, they were/are managed as subsidiaries. Intel is planning to integrate Granulate into the Datacenter Group.

 

[Daniel Nenni]

Habana and Mobileye were never integrated into Intel, they were/are managed as subsidiaries. Intel is planning to integrate Granulate into the Datacenter Group.

Good point. Some acquisitions are kept whole and some are assimilated. We shall see. Hopefully Pat knows what he is doing here.

 

[Paul2]

Habana, Mobileye two name two.

I don't see them earning any revenue at all post-purchase