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(PR) Apple to Spend More Than $500 Billion in the U.S. Over the Next Four Years

Apple today announced its largest-ever spend commitment, with plans to spend and invest more than $500 billion in the [website] over the next four years. This new pledge builds on Apple's long history of investing in American innovation and advanced high-skilled manufacturing, and will support a wide range of initiatives that focus on artificial intelligence, silicon engineering, and skills development for students and workers across the country."We are bullish on the future of American innovation, and we're proud to build on our long-standing [website] investments with this $500 billion commitment to our country's future," said Tim Cook, Apple's CEO. "From doubling our Advanced Manufacturing Fund, to building advanced technology in Texas, we're thrilled to expand our support for American manufacturing. And we'll keep working with people and companies across this country to help write an extraordinary new chapter in the history of American innovation."As part of this package of [website] investments, Apple and partners will open a new advanced manufacturing facility in Houston to produce servers that support Apple Intelligence, the personal intelligence system that helps users write, express themselves, and get things done. Apple will also double its [website] Advanced Manufacturing Fund, create an academy in Michigan to train the next generation of [website] manufacturers, and grow its research and development investments in the [website] to support cutting-edge fields like silicon [website] $500 billion commitment includes Apple's work with thousands of suppliers across all 50 states, direct employment, Apple Intelligence infrastructure and data centers, corporate facilities, and Apple TV+ productions in 20 states. Apple remains one of the largest [website] taxpayers, having paid more than $75 billion in [website] taxes over the past five years, including $19 billion in 2024 [website], Apple supports more than [website] million jobs across the country through direct employment, work with [website] suppliers and manufacturers, and developer jobs in the thriving iOS app [website] part of its new [website] investments, Apple will work with manufacturing partners to begin production of servers in Houston later this year. A 250,000-square-foot server manufacturing facility, slated to open in 2026, will create thousands of jobs.Previously manufactured outside the [website], the servers that will soon be assembled in Houston play a key role in powering Apple Intelligence, and are the foundation of Private Cloud Compute, which combines powerful AI processing with the most advanced security architecture ever deployed at scale for AI cloud computing. The servers bring together years of R&D by Apple engineers, and deliver the industry-leading security and performance of Apple silicon to the data [website] at Apple designed the servers to be incredibly energy efficient, reducing the energy demands of Apple data centers—which already run on 100 percent renewable energy. As Apple brings Apple Intelligence to customers across the [website], it also plans to continue expanding data center capacity in North Carolina, Iowa, Oregon, Arizona, and [website] part of this new investment, Apple is doubling its [website] Advanced Manufacturing Fund, which was created in 2017 to support world-class innovation and high-skilled manufacturing jobs across America. The growing commitment will increase the fund from $5 billion to $10 billion, focused on promoting advanced manufacturing and skills development throughout the [website] fund's expansion includes a multibillion-dollar commitment from Apple to produce advanced silicon in TSMC's Fab 21 facility in Arizona. Apple is the largest customer at this state-of-the-art facility, which employs more than 2,000 workers to manufacture the chips in the United States. Mass production of Apple chips began last month.Silicon used by Apple is designed to bring Apple users incredible features, performance, and power efficiency across their devices. Apple's suppliers already manufacture silicon in 24 factories across 12 states, including Arizona, Colorado, Oregon, and Utah. The company's investments in the sector help create thousands of high-paying jobs across the country at [website] companies like Broadcom, Texas Instruments, Skyworks, and [website] date, Apple's [website] Advanced Manufacturing Fund has supported projects in 13 states — including Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Indiana — that have helped build local businesses, train workers, and create a wide range of innovative manufacturing processes and materials for Apple [website] continues to expand its R&D across the [website] In the past five years, Apple has nearly doubled its [website] advanced R&D spend, and it will continue to accelerate its growth.Recently, Apple announced the newest addition to its iPhone lineup, iPhone 16e. iPhone 16e delivers fast, smooth performance and breakthrough battery life, thanks to the industry-leading efficiency of the A18 chip and the new Apple C1 — the first cellular modem designed by Apple, and the most power-efficient modem ever on an iPhone. Apple C1 adds a new chapter to the story of Apple silicon and is the result of years of R&D investment, bringing together the work of thousands of engineers. Apple C1 is the start of a long-term strategy that will allow Apple to innovate and optimize the modem system for additional Apple [website] the next four years, Apple plans to hire around 20,000 people, of which the vast majority will be focused on R&D, silicon engineering, software development, and AI and machine learning. The expanded commitment includes significant investment in Apple's R&D hubs across the country. This includes growing teams across the [website] focused on areas including custom silicon, hardware engineering, software development, artificial intelligence, and machine [website] the past five years, Apple has nearly doubled its [website] advanced R&D spend, and will continue to accelerate its growth. Pictured: The company's new research and development facility in Austin, [website] help companies transition to advanced manufacturing, Apple will open the Apple Manufacturing Academy in Detroit. Apple engineers, along with experts from top universities such as Michigan State, will consult with small- and medium-sized businesses on implementing AI and smart manufacturing techniques. The academy will also offer free in-person and online courses, with a skills development curriculum that teaches workers vital skills like project management and manufacturing process optimization. The courses will help drive productivity, efficiency, and quality in companies' supply [website] has long been committed to investing in education and skills development for American workers and students. That includes ongoing and expanding grant programs for organizations like 4-H, Boys & Girls Clubs of America, and FIRST, which work closely with Apple in communities across the country to create free programming that helps young people learn vital skills like [website]'s support for the next generation of innovators also includes efforts like the company's New Silicon Initiative, which prepares students for careers in hardware engineering and silicon chip design. Last year, this program expanded to students at Georgia Tech, and it now reaches students at eight schools across the country. Apple is continuing to expand the initiative, including a new collaboration with UCLA's Center for Education of Microchip Designers (CEMiD) beginning this year.

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(PR) Lenovo Delivers Unmatched Flexibility, Performance and Design with New ThinkSystem V4 Servers Powered by Intel Xeon 6 Processors

SR630 V4: data center powerhouse that is high-density, space-efficient, and designed to optimize performance in compact environments while delivering exceptional computing power and unparalleled scalability for demanding workloads. The super dense 1U system is ideal for cloud service providers (CSPs), telcos and fintech operations, enabling them to manage real-time transactions requiring low latency and high throughout performance with limited floor space.

SR650 V4: delivers maximum versatility for any workload with up to 25% more software GPU capacity for up to 2x computation performance in a compact 2U form factor. It is ideal for engineering, modeling & simulation and AI with rapid time to value at up to 50% cost savings for GPU-intensive workloads.

SR650a V4: purpose-built to deliver AI power in a dense package that enables GPU-intensive workloads like machine learning, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), and media analytics. The 2U2S platform supports up to four double-wide GPUs with front GPU access, ensuring unmatched performance and ease of maintenance without compromising memory capacity. This server is ideal for organizations looking to drive AI innovation in a dense, efficient form factor.

Today, Lenovo presented three new infrastructure solutions, powered by Intel Xeon 6 processors, designed to modernize and elevate data centers of any size to AI-enabled powerhouses. The solutions include next generation Lenovo ThinkSystem V4 servers that deliver breakthrough performance and exceptional versatility to handle any workload while enabling powerful AI capabilities in compact, high-density designs. Whether deploying at the edge, co-locating or leveraging a hybrid cloud, Lenovo is delivering the right mix of solutions that seamlessly unlock intelligence and bring AI wherever it is [website] new Lenovo ThinkSystem servers are purpose-built to run the widest range of workloads, including the most compute intensive - from algorithmic trading to web serving, astrophysics to email, and CRM to CAE. Organizations can streamline management and boost productivity with the new systems, achieving up to [website] higher compute performance than previous generation CPUs with Intel Xeon 6 with P-cores and up to 2x the memory bandwidth when using new MRDIMM technology, to scale and accelerate AI [website] systems are also engineered to help overcome critical power constraints while delivering more performance to enable compute-intensive AI. Through continued Lenovo Neptune liquid-cooling innovation, Lenovo is unlocking a new era of more efficient data center design that redefines power use for IT. Lenovo Neptune water cooling boosts thermal efficiency by [website], which reduces power consumption used for cooling IT equipment while increasing its processing power. With increased density and efficiency, new Lenovo ThinkSystem V4 servers with Intel Xeon 6 with E-Cores enable up to 3:1 rack consolidation of 5-year-old infrastructure, freeing up space and power for new AI projects."Lenovo is reimagining what's possible in the data center by delivering intelligent and versatile infrastructure solutions that simplify and accelerate IT modernization," presented Scott Tease, Vice President of Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Group, Products. "The new Lenovo ThinkSystem V4 servers represent the next generation of performance and innovation, achieving higher compute with less energy consumption and delivering AI-powered management that empowers businesses with fast and protected AI deployment across any environment. With Intel, we're enabling our clients to scale smarter and evolve faster to achieve AI-powered transformation."With more cores, memory bandwidth, and AI acceleration in every core, Lenovo ThinkSystem V4 servers with Intel Xeon 6 with P-cores deliver exceptional performance and efficiency for tackling the biggest challenges in AI across the widest range of compute-intensive workloads. The servers are also purpose-built for reliability and adaptability across diverse environments, such as colocation services, which are critical for organizations that want to implement high-performance, private AI but lack the datacenter footprint or infrastructure for liquid cooling. Enhanced physical and system security aspects also ensure data is improved protected, no matter where it sits, including a new locking bezel option that protects physical assets in remote environments. The new Lenovo ThinkSystem V4 servers include:The Lenovo ThinkSystem V4 solutions also extend Lenovo Neptune liquid cooling from the CPU to the memory with the new Neptune Core Compute Complex Module, supporting faster workloads with reduced fan speeds, quieter operation and lower power consumption. Fans can consume as much as 18% of the power used by servers. The new Neptune module is specifically engineered to reduce air flow requirements, yielding lower fan speeds and power consumption while also keeping the parts cooler for improved system health and lifespan. The module also expands cooling to four SW GPUs in the new ThinkSystem SR650a.Businesses can confidently deploy complex AI applications with integrated Lenovo systems management that saves valuable time and resources across the ThinkSystem V4 portfolio. Serving as a central command, XClarity One provides an intuitive user interface that ensures fast, efficient, and protected deployment from one system to a thousand. New integrated Enterprise Remote Control enables remote access and management of enterprise infrastructure no matter where it exists. Additionally, new AI-powered analytics offer Server SSD Predictive Failure Analysis (PFA) on XClarity One, helping to eliminate downtime by identifying potential problems with DIMMs before they fail. Finally, XClarity One now offers a Federated Directory that centrally manages system access across multiple applications through a unified registry and [website] continues to push the boundaries of innovation with powerful, flexible, and responsible AI solutions that bring the new era of AI-powered innovation to everyone. From edge computing to large-scale data centers, Lenovo's technology empowers organizations to unlock new possibilities, drive intelligent transformation, and stay ahead in an AI-driven world.

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(PR) Intel Xeon 6 Processors With E-Core Achieve Ecosystem Adoption Speed by Industry-Leading 5G Core Solution Partners

BT Group: BT Group is the [website]'s leading provider of fixed and mobile telecommunications and related secure digital products, solutions and services. It aims to accelerate growth through responsible, inclusive and sustainable tech. BT Group's close collaboration with Intel delivers differentiated 5G infrastructure that is high-performance, cost-optimized and power-efficient. The enterprise says it expects to leverage the capabilities of Intel Xeon 6 with E-cores to enable innovative services for its customers, while simultaneously reducing network energy footprint.

BT Group is the [website]'s leading provider of fixed and mobile telecommunications and related secure digital products, solutions and services. It aims to accelerate growth through responsible, inclusive and sustainable tech. BT Group's close collaboration with Intel delivers differentiated 5G infrastructure that is high-performance, cost-optimized and power-efficient. The corporation says it expects to leverage the capabilities of Intel Xeon 6 with E-cores to enable innovative services for its customers, while simultaneously reducing network energy footprint. Dell Technologies: The Dell PowerEdge R670 with Intel Xeon 6 processors with E-cores offers an air-cooled, compute-dense server designed to improve performance for 5G core networks. Dell Technologies collaborated with Intel to significantly improve communications service providers time to market, while helping operators reduce infrastructure cost and footprint.

The Dell PowerEdge R670 with Intel Xeon 6 processors with E-cores offers an air-cooled, compute-dense server designed to improve performance for 5G core networks. Dell Technologies collaborated with Intel to significantly improve communications service providers time to market, while helping operators reduce infrastructure cost and footprint. Ericsson: Ericsson Cloud Native Infrastructure Solution (CNIS) enables servers based on Intel Xeon 6 processors with E-cores as a system-verified solution to Ericsson's entire dual-mode 5G core application portfolio. Ericsson's packet core products with high-traffic demands will be the leading applications to use it. This helps communication service providers reduce TCO for mobile broadband and fixed wireless deployments that demand high traffic throughput and performance. The close collaboration between Intel and Ericsson has helped to significantly reduce time-to-market introduction of new technology from years to months, and Ericsson's software optimizations have produced a [website] improvement in performance-per-watt versus current CoSPs' deployed configurations.

Ericsson Cloud Native Infrastructure Solution (CNIS) enables servers based on Intel Xeon 6 processors with E-cores as a system-verified solution to Ericsson's entire dual-mode 5G core application portfolio. Ericsson's packet core products with high-traffic demands will be the leading applications to use it. This helps communication service providers reduce TCO for mobile broadband and fixed wireless deployments that demand high traffic throughput and performance. The close collaboration between Intel and Ericsson has helped to significantly reduce time-to-market introduction of new technology from years to months, and Ericsson's software optimizations have produced a [website] improvement in performance-per-watt versus current CoSPs' deployed configurations. Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is maintaining its focus on providing world-class telco platforms and has accelerated its validation cycles to offer HPE ProLiant Compute Gen 12 based on Intel Xeon 6 processors with E-cores. These performance-dense servers consume less power-per-bit than prior generations and will enable operators to continue addressing network growth while reducing their carbon footprint, improving security and simplifying operations.

Samsung's next-generation release of Samsung Cloud Native Core, planned for the second quarter of 2025, will feature Intel Xeon 6 processors with E-cores to deliver [website] improvement in performance and significant density improvement. SK Telecom: SK Telecom, as a major step in delivering on its commitment to network sustainability and optimized total cost of ownership, will deploy Hewlett Packard Enterprise DL340 servers based on Intel Xeon 6 processors with E-cores for its 5G core deployments in 2025. In addition to offering [website] capacity improvement per CPU in a fixed power envelope, the server's integrated Intel Infrastructure Power Manager will further reduce average power consumption, delivering estimated CPU power savings of 32% per day using SKT's traffic model.

Intel today showcased how Intel Xeon 6 processors with Efficient-cores (E-cores) have dramatically accelerated time-to-market adoption for the organization's solutions in collaboration with the ecosystem. Since product introduction in June 2024, 5G core solution partners have independently validated a [website] performance improvement, a [website] performance per watt increase and, in collaboration with the Intel Infrastructure Power Manager launched at MWC 2024, a 60% reduction in run-time power consumption."As 5G core networks continue to build out using Intel Xeon processors, which are deployed in the vast majority of 5G networks worldwide, infrastructure efficiency, power savings and uncompromised performance are essential criteria for communication service providers (CoSPs). Intel is pleased to announce that our 5G core solution partners have accelerated the adoption of Intel Xeon 6 with E-cores and are immediately passing along these benefits to their consumers. In addition, with Intel Infrastructure Power Manager, our partners have a run-time software solution that is showing tremendous progress in reducing server power in CoSP environments on existing and new infrastructure." -Alex Quach, Intel vice president and general manager of Wireline and Core Network Division: Shortening the time to market is invaluable for CoSPs looking to adopt the newest platforms to reap increased energy consumption benefits and reduce their infrastructure footprints while maintaining a pinnacle level of performance. These all represent major challenges that CoSPs face as they modernize networks.: Historically, the ecosystem of virtualized 5G core solutions has relied on certifying solution software on new processor platforms to increase performance and power efficiency. With the Intel Infrastructure Power Manager, solution providers can take advantage of software from Intel to more fully realize the benefits that Intel Xeon processors bring to reducing real-time power consumption. In this way, performance and power-efficiency improvements from new hardware introductions are augmented with additional significant power-saving capabilities from easy-to-deploy [website]'s Xeon platforms set the standard in 5G cloud-native core, providing superior total cost of ownership (TCO) and comprehensive power management. Major telecom equipment manufacturers and independent software vendors rely on Intel Xeon processors and architecture to optimize and unleash proven power savings for a more sustainable future.Infrastructure Power Manager enhances Intel's leadership in power management by providing operators with millisecond-level core utilization tracking. It enables precise frequency adjustments and CPU power reductions without compromising key performance metrics like throughput, latency and packet drop—saving consumers and partners the effort of developing proprietary solutions.consumers may visit the Intel Booth at MWC 2025 (Hall 3, Booth 3E31) to see demonstrations of the Intel Xeon 6 with E-cores, and how they may work with 5G core solution partners to learn more about the Intel Infrastructure Power Manager.

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