System Builder Ecosystem

JK: “There’s a lot of work that goes into engineering, including designing the boards, testing and integration. We do design reviews, if you’re making a board and need to have it ready for 13th Gen. We do layout reviews, firmware reviews and acoustic testing at the system level. We did 200 design reviews leading up to the Raptor Lake launch with all the major board manufacturers in Asia.

“We work with power supply vendors. Our design engineers make some voltage test tools available in target probes. These are all different tools to accelerate time to market for people doing system building. And then, we shipped over 1,000 development kits to memory vendors to do all the memory testing to ensure that those products are tested and validated and then ready to be in the market at the same time. The result is hundreds of designs at launch and then thousands of designs coming out over the subsequent months for system builders to build all of their products.”