GoKawiilHello you fine Internet folks, today we have an interview with Kira Boyko, the Product Director of Intel Xeon 6+. Hope y’all enjoy!
Transcript below has been edited for conciseness:
George Cozma: Hello, you fine internet folks. We’re here at Computex 2026 at the Intel booth, or booth-room-floor area, whatever you want to...
Kira Boyko: Call it Intel space.
George Cozma: Yeah, well, whatever you want to call it. And I’m here with...
Kira Boyko: I’m Kira Boyko, and I am the product director for Intel Xeon 6+, which we have just launched at the event this week.
George Cozma: Now, starting off with a kind of simple question: what is a product director?
Kira Boyko: That is a good question. Actually, I get asked that somewhat frequently. A product director is someone who defines what the product is going to look like. So we look at the market requirements, what segments you want to target, how you want the product to perform, the different KPIs, and then you work all the way through to execution and delivery to make sure we are staying on track to our customers’ needs.
George Cozma: So are you actively saying, okay, this product needs to have at least X number of cores at X clock speed for X performance?
Kira Boyko: With X frequency, X application for this segment is going to need this KPI of performance. It needs to be able to support this and that, and this other part doesn’t matter. And then, working with our customers, of course, to answer those and understand their various applications, we build out models to ensure that we are supporting those appropriately.
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