Intel on Monday offered 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 and Advanced Micro Devices.
At a supercomputing convention in Germany on Monday, Intel mentioned its forthcoming “Falcon Shores” chip may have 288GB of reminiscence and assist 8-bit floating level computation. Those technical specs are vital as synthetic intelligence fashions just like companies like ChatGPT have exploded in dimension, and companies are searching for extra highly effective chips to run them.
The particulars are additionally among the many first to trickle out as Intel carries out a technique shift to catch as much as Nvidia, which leads the market in chips for AI, and AMD, which is anticipated to problem Nvidia’s place with a chip known as 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 mentioned it has almost accomplished shipments for Argonne National Lab’s Aurora supercomputer based mostly on Ponte Vecchio, which Intel claims has higher efficiency than Nvidia’s newest AI chip, the H100.
But Intel’s Falcon Shores follow-on chip will not be to market till 2025, when Nvidia will probably have one other chip of its personal out.
Jeff McVeigh, interim head of Intel’s accelerated computing techniques and graphics group, mentioned the corporate is taking time to transform the chip after giving up its prior technique of mixing graphics processing items (GPUs) with its central processing items (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 informed Reuters. “If you have discrete offerings, that allows you at the platform level to choose both between the ratio as well as the vendors.”
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