Apparently Chipzilla wants to eat its own dog food to reduce costs, improve efficiencies and boost performance, a major internal report has revealed.

Intel IT supports over 106,000 employees in 66 countries, and the report is an intriguing look into how a technology giant tackles the same challenges and opportunities facing the customers and markets it serves.

The report explained that the company has fitted sensors in different environments, such as production and manufacturing facilities, to improve performance and efficiency.

"Collection and analysis of pressure variation using the Intel IoT Gateway enabled yield improvement in one manufacturing operation," the report notes.

"In another use case, predictive triggers for electromechanical parts failure in complex test equipment helped to improve output and yield."

A third project involves using wireless IoT sensors at Intel's data centres to gather information on humidity, power demand, water temperature and air pressure.

"Data analysis identified non-intuitive changes to our existing room power, space and cooling infrastructure, enabling us to design a free-cooling data centre with an averagepower usage effectiveness of 1.07, cutting annual power costs by hundreds of thousands of dollars," the report said.

The report revealed that 85 percent of all new services installed for the company's Office, Enterprise and Services divisions are hosted in the cloud.

"We attribute the success of our private cloud to implementing a provider-like cloud hosting strategy, advancing self-service infrastructure as a service and platform as a service, and enabling cloud-aware applications," the report said.

"Our private cloud saves about $7.5m annually while supporting an increase of 17 percent in operating system instances in the environment."