As Dell Technologies Inc. navigates another wave of innovation driven by artificial intelligence, the company is keeping a close eye on how compute technology is being transformed.

This means developing products and architectures that involve the graphics processing unit, which is powering AI deployment today.

“This is a different computing architecture,” said Jeff Clarke (pictured), vice chairman and chief operating officer of Dell. “The GPU is the brain, networking is the heart, storage is the lungs. If you pull that together, what we’re building is an optimized system there. It is a new architecture that is evolving, and as we go from training to inference, it’s going to evolve again.”

Clarke spoke with theCUBE Research’s Dave Vellante and Savannah Peterson at Dell Technologies World, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed Dell’s recent product announcements and the growing influence of AI at the edge. (* Disclosure below.)

Dell Technologies AI PC capitalizes on expanding processor performance

A key element in that transformation will be the role of the personal computer, a cornerstone of Dell’s business model since the company was founded 40 years ago. At this week’s Dell Technologies World in Las Vegas, the company introduced new AI PCs powered by advanced GPUs and neural processing units.

“The leapfrogging of performance is massive,” Clarke said. “You’re going to have a personal assistant in front of you. That personal assistant is going to help you search, it’s going to help you organize, it’s going to help you do live caption, it’s going to help you do recall and it’s going to help you create. It’s a new wave of innovation that’s going to hit the PC that we haven’t seen.”

During his interview, Clarke cited statistics that 83% of enterprise data is on-premises and 53% of data is now created by devices at the edge. Data points such as these appear to support Dell’s strategic approach for AI and its PC business.

“The data is the differentiator, Clarke said. “We believe AI goes to the data because it’s more efficient, more effective, more secure. We believe AI goes out to the edge [and] we’re at the edge, we’re a very, very large commercial PC provider to our customers.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE Research’s coverage of Dell Technologies World:

(* Disclosure: Dell Technologies Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Dell nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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