Intel hopes Optane will save it from AMD

At a meeting with Wall Street analysts, Intel datacenter chief Navin Shenoy will reveal the chip giant's plan to fend off competition from AMD. Intel's 10nm chips are massively delayed and will not hit the market in large volumes until 2020.

A new Reuters report indicates Intel plans to increase its competitiveness in the datacenter market by "stitching together" its CPUs with memory chips, semi-custom chips, and software offerings. Not a lot of details yet, but it seems Optane, which so far has failed to make a big splash, will play a key role here:

Intel’s plan rests on its ability to “stitch together” its CPUs, the processing brains, with its memory chips, its semi-customizable computing chips and its software offerings. The company also plans to tweak its chips to make them more competitive against offerings from Nvidia Corp for artificial intelligence work. Together they will compete in costs and computing horsepower with rivals’ systems, Shenoy said. Intel plans to pair a new memory chip technology called Optane with its processors next year, gaining some capability its rivals will not have because Intel has spent the past decade inventing the technology from scratch.