With an eye on new markets including 5G telcom networks, Artificial Intelligence (AI), drones, driverless cars and even hi-tech farming and analytics driven retail, world’s largest chip maker Intel has launched its new Xeon scalable processors. The data centre processor promises speed, agility, security, networking features that are multiple times ahead of previous generation hardware and offer ultra-low latency to meet demands of the fast accelerating digital life. The Xeon platform was in development over the last five years. $59 billion Intel is pinning its hopes on the re-architected chip to ward off competition from Nvidia, AMD, STMicroelectronics and others gearing up for next gen hardware needs of modern data centers, the engine rooms of the digital economy.