Evolving It Infrastructure For AI
techstrong.ai, Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025
Mike Leach, senior manager for workstation and horizontal solutions at Lenovo, explains how IT infrastructure requirements will need to evolve to build and deploy artificial intelligence (AI) applications.
In this episode of the Techstrong AI video series, host Mike Vizard speaks with Mike Leach, senior manager for workstation and horizontal solutions at Lenovo, about how AI is transforming the role of workstations and endpoints.
Leach explains that AI is creating an unprecedented demand for performance, driving the evolution of new types of processors like neural processing units (NPUs) to complement CPUs and GPUs. While high-end GPUs are still essential for training large models, NPUs are emerging as efficient processors for background AI tasks such as inference. This shift is changing how organizations view workstations, making them critical not just for power users, but for anyone who relies on real-time AI-enhanced workflows.