Kottapalli, who was Intel’s chief Xeon architect after previously serving as lead engineer for multiple Itanium and Xeon chips, gave the update just over a month after Qualcomm revealed that its data center team was working on a “high-performance, energy-efficient server solution for data center applications.”
As Qualcomm hunts the apt team to enter the data center CPU market, Sailesh Kottapalli, a 28-year Intel veteran who most recently served as senior fellow and chief architect for the Xeon server CPUs, says he has joined the company.
“The opportunity to innovate and grow while helping to scale new frontiers was immensely compelling to me—a once-in-a-career opportunity that I could not pass on,” Kottapalli (pictured) wrote on LinkedIn.
Kottapalli, who was Intel’s chief Xeon architect after previously serving as lead engineer for multiple Itanium and Xeon chips, gave the update just over a month after Qualcomm revealed that its data center team was working on a “high-performance, energy-efficient server solution for data center applications.”
In a December job posting for a server system-on-chip (SoC) security architect, the chip designer disclosed the information. The data center team is concentrating on creating “reference platforms” based on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon system-on-chips, according to the listing.
The statement mentions that the creation of a “system architecture for confidential computing in data center products” will be spearheaded by the server SoC security architect. Over the past few years, AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon CPUs have come to be known for their confidential computing capabilities.
Qualcomm has other plans to offer products in the data center sector than this one. The company has been marketing AI accelerator chips under the Qualcomm Cloud AI brand for the last few years. Prominent IT firms like Lenovo, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Amazon Web Services have supported these processors.
Renowned for producing smartphones with Arm-based Snapdragon CPUs. With its Snapdragon X family of chips, Qualcomm made a fresh attempt last year to compete with AMD and Intel in the PC CPU market.
The company’s new bespoke, Arm-based CPU cores, which are based on technologies Qualcomm acquired from its $1.4 billion acquisition of chip design startup Nuvia in 2021, are being used for the first time in the Snapdragon X series.
The CDMA2000, TD-SCDMA and WCDMA mobile communications standards company stated that it would employ the CPU cores for a number of product categories, including laptops, smartphones, digital cockpits, advanced driver assistance systems, extended reality, and infrastructure networking solutions, when it announced the acquisition of Nuvia.
A couple of years ago, Qualcomm made an attempt to break into the server CPU market; but, in 2018, it retracted its efforts, leading to layoffs.
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