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Dylan Martin
In her most up-to-date function at Intel, Kavitha Prasad led ‘general AI technique and execution efforts’ and was additionally answerable for ‘growing [the Data Center and AI Group’s] technique for next-generation information middle options, cloud structure options, and deployment techniques,’ based on a earlier memo seen by CRN.
An govt who led Intel’s information middle AI technique as a part of a renewed push to compete in opposition to Nvidia has left the chipmaker to steer the perimeter safety safety enterprise at Amazon Net Providers, CRN has discovered.
Kavitha Prasad informed CRN on Monday that she left Intel as vp and basic supervisor of Intel’s Information Heart and AI Cloud Execution and Technique Group on July 31 to develop into basic supervisor of perimeter safety at AWS the subsequent day. Prasad up to date her job title on LinkedIn Sunday.
The cloud computing large’s perimeter safety enterprise contains companies like AWS Protect and AWS Firewall Supervisor that defend clients’ purposes and infrastructure from cyberattacks corresponding to distributed denial-of-service, SQL injection or cross-site scripting, based on an AWS net web page.
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Intel didn’t reply to a request for remark. An AWS spokesperson declined to remark.
Prasad departed lower than two months earlier than Intel outlined its evolving AI technique to compete with Nvidia and different rivals on the Intel Innovation occasion final week, which incorporates the embrace of open platforms to spice up gross sales of Intel’s chips for PCs, information facilities and edge infrastructure.
She turned the final manger of Intel’s Information Heart and AI Cloud Execution and Technique Group when it was shaped in early 2022 as a part of a reorganization of the semiconductor large’s Information Heart and AI enterprise unit, which incorporates Xeon CPUs, Gaudi AI processors and GPUs for servers.
In that function, Prasad led Intel’s “general AI technique and execution efforts” and was additionally answerable for “growing [the Data Center and AI Group’s] technique for next-generation information middle options, cloud structure options, and deployment techniques,” based on a February 2022 memo seen by CRN that was written by the enterprise unit’s chief, Sandra Rivera.
Based on the memo, a number of leaders and groups reported to Prasad, together with the vp of cloud and enterprise AI technique, the vp of information middle enterprise and incubation in addition to a number of senior administrators with varied roles round AI and information middle merchandise.
In an April 2022 Wall Avenue Journal story, Prasad mentioned she was main a shift in Intel’s AI technique to give attention to growing AI-based options to assist clients obtain enterprise targets as a substitute of letting clients determine issues on their very own with the corporate’s portfolio of chips.
Earlier than her newest title at Intel, Prasad was vp of AI technique and execution, a job she began in October 2021 after leaving an AI chip startup she helped discovered, SiMa.ai.
Previous to the startup, she labored at Intel in two separate stints for a complete of 12 years that included roles corresponding to head of embedded system options and senior engineering chief for the Xeon E5 CPU lineup. Between these stints, she served as director of engineering at Xilinx for 3 years.
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