Intel on Monday unveiled some new details about its artificial intelligence (AI) computing chips that it plans to introduce in 2025 as it shifts its strategy to compete with Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices. From the report: Intel announced at its supercomputing conference in Germany on Monday that its upcoming Falcon Shores chips will have 288 gigabytes of memory and support 8-bit floating point arithmetic. These technical specs are important as artificial intelligence models like services like ChatGPT are exploding in size and companies want more powerful chips to run them.
The details are quickly emerging as Intel implements a strategy shift to catch up with AI chip market leader Nvidia and AMD, which is expected to challenge Nvidia’s position with a chip called the MI300. In contrast, Intel has virtually no market share after a chip called the Ponte Vecchio that would be Nvidia’s competitor suffered years of delays. Intel announced on Monday that the Argonne National Laboratory’s Aurora supercomputer, based on Ponte Vecchio, is nearly complete. Intel claims the supercomputer will outperform Nvidia’s latest AI chip, the H100. However, Intel’s Falcon Shores successor chip won’t hit the market until 2025, by which time Nvidia will likely launch another chip of its own.
