Intel details future AI chips as the company alters direction. As it alters its strategy to compete with Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O) and Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD.O), Intel Corp (INTC.O) revealed new details on a 2025 AI processor on Monday.
Intel announced its “Falcon Shores” chip would feature 288 gigabytes of memory and enable 8-bit floating point processing during a supercomputing conference in Germany on Monday. As artificial intelligence models like ChatGPT grows, firms need increasingly powerful CPUs.
As Intel shifts tactics to catch up to Nvidia, which leads the AI processor market, and AMD, which is slated to rival Nvidia with the MI300, the specifics are among the first to emerge.
After years of delays, Ponte Vecchio, Intel’s Nvidia competitor, has almost no market share.
On Monday, Intel said it had nearly finished shipping Ponte Vecchio-based Aurora supercomputers to Argonne National Lab, which Intel claims outperforms Nvidia’s H100 AI chip.
Intel’s Falcon Shores follow-on chip won’t be released until 2025, when Nvidia may release another CPU.
After abandoning its GPU-CPU strategy, Intel’s interim head of accelerated computing systems and graphics, Jeff McVeigh, said the company is taking time to rebuild the chip.
“While we aspire to have the best CPU and 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 told Reuters. “Discrete offerings enable platform-level vendor and ratio selection.”
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