Sachin Katti

Senior Vice President, Chief Technology and AI Officer & GM of Network and Edge Group, Intel

Search every verified Sachin Katti interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. At the Intel Technology Tour 2025, Sachin Katti described Panther Lake as being "designed for" agentic AI, stating that it delivers up to 180 TOPS of performance, divided between the CPU (10), MPU (50), and GPU (120). He characterized agentic AI as consisting of large language models that reason and reflect, agents that interact with tools, and memory usage. Katti said that the OpenVINO stack had improved, making it "twice as fast to first token, six times better on memory consumption, and about twice as fast on tokens per second" compared to the 2024 stack. He also noted that Intel has pre-converted and pre-quantized more than 300 models, which he said are available on Hugging Face as "Intel-optimized models." At Mobile World Congress 2025, Katti discussed the Xeon 6 family of processors, stating that the Xeon 6 SoC with P-cores delivers a 2.4x increase in capacity and a 70% decrease in power consumption for vRAN and cloud RAN workloads. He cited partners including Nokia, Samsung, and Ericsson, who he said reported improvements in power reduction, capacity, and performance per watt. Katti argued that AI should not be treated as a separate workload and that customers cannot afford to deploy a new architecture for AI, emphasizing that Intel's approach is to run AI inference on the same SoC that runs the network. He described the telecom industry as being on the "cusp of reaping all the benefits of automation because of the advent of AI," and said that the industry is shifting toward questions of how to monetize the network.