By Max A. Cherney
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Intel (NASDAQ:) detailed a brand new model of its synthetic intelligence chip at its Imaginative and prescient occasion on Tuesday that takes goal at Nvidia (NASDAQ:)’s dominance in semiconductors that energy AI.
WHY IT IS IMPORTANT
Tech firms are trying to find another supply of the scarce chips which might be wanted for AI. Intel stated that its new Gaudi 3 chip was able to coaching a selected massive language fashions 50% extra rapidly than Nvidia’s prior era H100 processor. It’s also succesful for computing generative AI responses, a course of known as inference, extra rapidly than the H100 chips for a few of the fashions Intel examined.
KEY QUOTE
“Our clients, initially, are asking for alternative within the business,” stated Intel vp, technique and product administration Jeni Barovian. “They’re coming to us and they’re anticipating that Intel, as a computing chief, will comply with the wave of (generative AI) and ship options that meet their wants. And they’re searching for an open method.”
CONTEXT
Intel and Superior Micro Units (NASDAQ:) have struggled to supply a compelling bundle of chips and the software program mandatory to construct AI functions that may develop into a viable different to Nvidia. Nvidia managed roughly 83% of the information heart chip market in 2023, with a majority of the remaining 17% share held by Google (NASDAQ:)’s customized tensor processing models (TPUs) that it doesn’t promote immediately.
BY THE NUMBERS
Intel used Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co’s 5nm course of to construct the chips. Gaudi 3 contains two most important processor chips fused collectively, and is greater than twice as quick as its predecessor. The chip is designed to be strung along with hundreds of others and when executed so can generate an unlimited quantity of compute energy.
WHAT IS NEXT
The Gaudi 3 chip will probably be obtainable to server builders reminiscent of Supermicro and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE:) within the second quarter of this yr.
The following era of Gaudi chips will probably be code named Falcon Shores.
