Last Update: May 22, 2023, 23:56 IST
FILE PHOTO: A smartphone with the Intel logo displayed is placed on a computer motherboard in this illustration taken March 6, 2023. (Reuters)
Intel said its upcoming “Falcon Shores” chip would have 288 gigabytes of memory and support 8-bit floating point computation.
Intel Corp on Monday provided some new details on a chip for artificial intelligence (AI) it plans to introduce in 2025 as it shifts strategy to compete against Nvidia Corp and Advanced Micro Devices Inc .
At a supercomputing conference in Germany on Monday, Intel said its upcoming “Falcon Shores” chip would have 288 gigabytes of memory and support 8-bit floating point computation.
Those technical specifications are important because artificial intelligence models similar to those in services like ChatGPT have exploded in size, and businesses are looking for more powerful chips to run them.
The details also first emerged as Intel makes a strategy shift to catch up with 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 essentially no market share after a chip called Ponte Vecchio, an Nvidia competitor, suffered years of delays.
Intel said Monday 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 hit the market until 2025, when Nvidia will likely have another chip of its own.
Jeff McVeigh, interim head of Intel’s accelerated computing systems and graphics group, said the company will take time to rework the chip after abandoning its former strategy of combining graphics processing units (GPUs) with its central processing units (CPUs). Is taking
“While we aspire to have the best CPU and best GPU in the market, it was difficult to say at one point in time one vendor would have the best combination,” McVeigh told Reuters. “If you have a discrete offering, that allows you to choose between both the ratio as well as the vendors at the platform level.”
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