Michael Dell: Tech 'Built For AI First' Will Dominate Computing

Dell Technologies Chairman and CEO Michael Dell said within a few years "machine intelligent systems" will be the primary consumer of the world's IT computing power, adding that today the kind of performance those future systems need only exists in a lab. "I would predict, in a few years, the majority of IT capacity is going to be in service of machine intelligent systems," he said during a talk on Tuesday about Dell's new line of PowerEdge servers. "That's the only way you can make sense of the amount of data that is going to be created. What that means is that we should be thinking about and working right now on how we build our systems, first for machine intelligence, then for the other applications and uses out there." Dell said his company has such devices that can run 100-million IOPS, the input output of operations that measure a computer's performance, but those devices are not yet on the market.