Intel Partner Connect 2021: News, Announcements And Analysis

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Intel Pushes Partners To Sell Evo Laptops As PC Demand Continues
Top Intel PC sales exec Steve Long says the chipmaker is arming partners with tools to sell Intel Evo-branded laptops, which is part of a larger push in the PC market. ‘It is an invest year in the client business. We’ve invested not only in our partners and our products and our programs but also in our go-to-market motions,’ he tells CRN.

Pat Gelsinger: Intel Needs To Be Consistent, Reliable For Partners
‘I am here today to personally commit that every single day Intel will work tirelessly to be an incredible partner to you,’ Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger told partners in his keynote at this week’s virtual Intel Partner Connect. Meanwhile, company executives said Intel is improving on supply issues, ironing out issues with Intel Partner Alliance and working to improve partner access to resources throughout the company.

New Intel Global Channel Chief Vows To Bust Barriers For Partners
‘We have extraordinary capabilities across this incredibly huge company. There’s lots of different partner motions or things that are happening across the company. I want to increasingly bring those into alignment so that we bring the full weight and capability of this awesome company to help our partners do [job] No. 1, which is help them grow,’ says John Kalvin, Intel’s new global channel chief, in an interview with CRN.