Intel Unveils Game-Changing AI Chip to Challenge Nvidia and AMD

Intel Corp on Monday supplied a handful of latest particulars on a chip for synthetic intelligence (AI) computing it plans to introduce in 2025 because it shifts technique to compete towards Nvidia Corp and Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

At a supercomputing convention in Germany on Monday, Intel mentioned its forthcoming “Falcon Shores” chip will have 288 gigabytes of memory and support 8-bit floating point computation.

Those technical specifications are important as artificial intelligence models similar to services like ChatGPT have exploded in size, and businesses are looking for more powerful chips to run them.

The details are also among the first to trickle out as Intel carries out a strategy shift to catch up to Nvidia, which leads the market in chips for AI, and AMD, which is expected to challenge Nvidia’s position with a chip called the MI300.

Intel, in contrast, has basically no market share after its would-be Nvidia competitor, a chip known as Ponte Vecchio, suffered years of delays.

Intel on Monday said it has nearly completed shipments for Argonne National Lab’s Aurora supercomputer based on Ponte Vecchio, which Intel claims has better performance than Nvidia’s latest AI chip, the H100.

But Intel’s Falcon Shores follow-on chip won’t be to market until 2025, when Nvidia will likely have another chip of its own out.

Jeff McVeigh, interim head of Intel’s accelerated computing systems and graphics group, said the company is taking time to rework the chip after giving up its prior strategy of combining graphics processing units (GPUs) with its central processing units (CPUs).

“While we aspire to have the best CPU and the best GPU in the market, it was hard to say that one vendor at one time was going to have the best combination of those,” McVeigh instructed Reuters. “If you may have discrete choices, that enables you on the platform stage to decide on each between the ratio in addition to the distributors.”

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