Sandra Rivera

Chief Executive Officer of Programmable Solutions Group, Intel

Search every verified Sandra Rivera interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Sandra Rivera, Intel's Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Data Center and AI Group, discussed Intel's AI strategy during an appearance at Intel Innovation 2023. She stated that the market is "clamoring for democratization of AI" and that the "race is just beginning," arguing that "open approaches are critical to unlocking AI's full potential." Rivera said Intel's open approach is "about lowering barriers to entry, increasing market participation, and accelerating innovation," and that "openness will ultimately win in the long term." She described the future of AI workloads as "heterogeneous" and said Intel's role is to "address this complexity through software that simplifies development and maximizes performance across architectures." Rivera also discussed Intel's Gaudi2 accelerators, stating that from a "price performance perspective we still beat" the Nvidia H100, and that "not every customer needs Peak roofline Performance for every single workload." She noted that Intel is providing a "sandbox for customers to come in to try their models out" via the Intel DevCloud. On the topic of security, Rivera said "trust and security are paramount for AI deployment" and that "securing models, data, and code is essential." She added that AI is "being used across the entire manufacturing process" at Intel, including "improving yields in fabs" and "securing our chips."