Powering AI Everywhere: Intel Inside, CDW at Your Side

Some observers believe that artificial intelligence has made more progress and caused more disruption in the past three months than in the previous three years. The pace of change in AI is incredibly fast, and many organizations face serious challenges and increasing pressures as they try to keep up. From enabling intelligent features on employee devices to running powerful AI models in the data center, modern workloads demand more from today’s technology. Organizations need powerful, energy-efficient processors capable of delivering AI performance wherever it’s needed.

AI everywhere starts with Intel inside. Intel is uniquely positioned to power AI at every level, with advanced processors designed for personal devices, edge computing and enterprise infrastructure. CDW brings that power to life with expert guidance and deployment services that turn potential into performance.

Many organizations are hesitant to run AI workloads in the cloud, especially when sensitive data is involved. In these cases, on-device AI offers a more secure, efficient alternative. Next-generation AI PCs powered by Intel® Core™ Ultra processors deliver the performance needed to run AI applications locally, helping reduce latency; protect data privacy; and extend battery life for a more responsive, reliable user experience.

Similarly, AI is placing greater demands on data centers as intensive workloads escalate the need for processing power and increased energy use. The latest-generation Intel® Xeon®  processors provide high core counts, enhanced memory bandwidth and integrated AI acceleration features, enabling them to excel with AI workloads. By increasing the number of cores, Intel® Xeon® chips support parallel processing, while improvements in memory bandwidth enable them to access and transfer data more rapidly. With Intel® Gaudi®, Intel has also embedded AI acceleration features into each core, improving their performance on AI tasks such as inferencing and training.

When users employ tools with embedded AI, such as Microsoft Copilot or Adobe Creative Cloud applications, they expect seamless operation for tasks such as collaboration and content creation. AI PCs with Intel® Core™ Ultra processors enable these experiences, making devices smarter and more responsive. These chips support over 300 AI-enhanced applications, which allows them to complete tasks more quickly. The remote management capabilities enabled by the Intel vPro® platform help users adopt AI efficiently while also enhancing security.

In the data center, Intel® Xeon® processors drive AI innovation. They provide the power needed for complex computations such as predictive analytics. Their high core counts and memory bandwidth also support high-performance computing applications such as complex simulations and calculations.

As organizations become more comfortable with AI applications on their devices and in their data centers, they can rely on powerful Intel processors to support these demanding workloads.

Intel’s AI-optimized platforms deliver more than just raw power. When combined across your organization’s full stack, they create a consistent, connected experience. When you run AI-enhanced productivity tools at the edge with Intel® Core™ Ultra processors and drive large-scale analytics and training models in the data center with Intel® Xeon® processors, you benefit from a unified architecture built for performance, scalability and security.

Standardizing with the latest Intel technology across endpoints and infrastructure offers several key advantages:

• Shared toolsets and developer environments allow teams to build and optimize AI models once and deploy them everywhere (on laptops, servers or edge devices) with minimal rework.
• Common security frameworks and hardware-based protections help enforce consistent policies across the organization, reducing vulnerabilities and simplifying compliance.
• Streamlined IT management is enabled through platform consistency, making it easier to deploy, maintain and support devices at scale.
• Optimized performance from edge to core ensures that inferencing tasks, data processing and decision-making workflows happen in the right place, reducing latency, improving user experience and conserving bandwidth.
• Future-ready flexibility gives IT teams the confidence to scale AI workloads as needs evolve, without introducing fragmentation or platform incompatibility.

With a unified Intel architecture, organizations gain more than just performance; they gain a strategic foundation for sustainable, enterprisewide AI adoption.

Even the most advanced processors need the right strategy, infrastructure and support to reach their full potential. That’s where CDW comes in. As a trusted Intel partner, CDW helps organizations harness the power of Intel® Core™ Ultra and Intel® Xeon® processors to drive real outcomes with AI — faster, smarter and more securely. 

CDW offers a spectrum of full-stack services to accelerate your AI journey, from expert consultation and workload analysis to deployment, configuration and lifecycle support. Whether you’re adopting AI at the edge, on user devices or within high-performance data centers, CDW’s specialists will help you architect the right solution and ensure it’s optimized for your environment.

To support efficient device management and stronger security, CDW also offers Intel vPro® activation services, ensuring customers fully leverage the remote management and security features built into Intel vPro® platforms.

From provisioning to policy configuration, CDW enables organizations to get maximum value from their Intel investments, right out of the box.