Intel Commits $50 Million with Pandemic Response Technology Initiative to Combat Coronavirus
April 07 2020 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
What’s New: Today, Intel is pledging an additional $50
million in a pandemic response technology initiative to combat the
coronavirus through accelerating access to technology at the point
of patient care, speeding scientific research and ensuring access
to online learning for students. Included in Intel’s effort is an
additional innovation fund for requests where access to Intel
expertise and resources can have immediate impact. This is in
addition to prior announcements of $10 million in donations that
are supporting local communities during this critical time.
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Intel is committed to accelerating access
to technology that can combat the current COVID-19 pandemic and
enable new technology and scientific discovery that better prepares
society for future crises. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
“The world faces an enormous challenge in
fighting COVID-19. Intel is committed to accelerating access to
technology that can combat the current pandemic and enable new
technology and scientific discovery that better prepares society
for future crises. We hope that by sharing our expertise, resources
and technology, we can help to accelerate work that saves lives and
expands access to critical services around the world during this
challenging time.” -- Bob Swan, Intel chief executive officer
What It Funds: Approximately $40 million will fund the
Intel COVID-19 Response and Readiness and Online Learning
initiatives. The Intel COVID-19 Response and Readiness Initiative
will provide funding to accelerate customer and partner advances in
diagnosis, treatment and vaccine development, leveraging
technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), high-performance
computing and edge-to-cloud service delivery. Through the
initiative, Intel will help healthcare and life sciences
manufacturers increase the availability of technology and solutions
used by hospitals to diagnose and treat COVID-19. It will also
support the creation of industry alliances that accelerate
worldwide capacity, capability and policy to respond to this and
future pandemics, building on Intel’s own experience in driving
technology innovation in the health and life sciences arena.
The Intel Online Learning Initiative will support
education-focused nonprofit organizations and business partners to
provide students without access to technology with devices and
online learning resources. In close partnership with public school
districts, the initiative will enable PC donations, online virtual
resources, study-at-home guides and device connectivity assistance.
The Intel Online Learning Initiative builds on Intel’s
long-standing commitment to technology that improves learning. It
will begin immediately in regions with the greatest needs across
the United States and expand globally.
The company has also allocated up to $10 million for an
innovation fund that supports requests from external partners and
employee-led relief projects, addressing critical needs in their
communities. For example:
- Intel is working with India’s Council of Scientific and
Industrial Research and International Institute of Information
Technology, Hyderabad, to deploy Intel client and server solutions
to help achieve faster and less expensive COVID-19 testing and
coronavirus genome sequencing to understand epidemiology and
AI-based risk stratification for patients with comorbidities. Intel
is also collaborating with India's National Association of Software
and Service Companies to build an application ecosystem and
multicloud back end to enable population-scale COVID-19
diagnostics, to predict outbreaks and to improve medical care
management and administration.
- Medical Informatics Corp.'s (MIC) Sickbay™ platform, powered by
Intel technology, is a solution that can turn beds into virtual ICU
beds in minutes, help protect critical care workers from risk of
exposure with clinical distancing and expand their care capacity
significantly. Weeks ago, Houston Methodist Hospital deployed
Sickbay for its vICU and was able to leverage it within one day to
support monitoring of its COVID-19 patients and enable their care
providers to monitor patients virtually without risking exposure in
ICU rooms.
- In the U.K., Intel is working with Dyson and medical
consultancy firm TTP to supply FPGAs for CoVent, a new ventilator
specifically designed in response to the U.K. government’s request
for help. The ventilator is pending regulatory approval and is
designed to be bed-mounted.
Why It Matters: Intel technology underpins critical
products and services that global communities, governments and
healthcare organizations depend on every day. We hope that by
harnessing our expertise, resources, technology and talents, we can
help save and enrich lives by solving the world’s greatest
challenges through the creation and development of new
technology-based innovations and approaches.
Coronavirus Relief to Date: This technology response
initiative builds on Intel’s prior announcements of $10 million in
donations that are supporting local communities during this
critical time. Those donations include 1 million gloves, masks and
other equipment for healthcare workers, $6 million from the Intel
Foundation toward relief efforts in local communities and $4
million from Intel and its subsidiaries around the globe.
Additional Technology Efforts: As previously announced,
Intel and Lenovo have teamed up with Beijing-based BGI Genomics to
accelerate the analysis of genomic characteristics of COVID-19.
Intel has also joined the global XPRIZE Pandemic Alliance along
with other companies to fuel collaboration on solutions through
shared innovation to effectively address the immediate needs of the
crisis.
How You Can Learn More and Get Involved: Intel COVID-19
Response Website
More Context: Intel Response to COVID-19 Crisis (Press
Kit)
About Intel
Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) is an industry leader, creating
world-changing technology that enables global progress and enriches
lives. Inspired by Moore’s Law, we continuously work to advance the
design and manufacturing of semiconductors to help address our
customers’ greatest challenges. By embedding intelligence in the
cloud, network, edge and every kind of computing device, we unleash
the potential of data to transform business and society for the
better. To learn more about Intel’s innovations, go to
newsroom.intel.com and intel.com.
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