Intel Reveals Artificial Intelligence Chip Plans To Challenge Nvidia And AMD

Inetal prepares a new chip for artificial intelligence. (photo: dock. intel.com)

JAKARTA - Intel Corp on Monday 22 May provided some new details regarding the artificial intelligence computing chip (AI) that they will introduce in 2025. This is in line with the shift in their strategy to compete with Nvidia Corp and Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD).

At a supercomputation conference in Germany on Monday, Intel revealed that the upcoming "Falcon Shores" chip will have 288 gigabytes of memory and support 8-bit floating point computing.

These technical specifications are important because artificial intelligence models similar to services like ChatGPT have grown rapidly in size, and companies are looking for stronger chips to run them.

The details are also among the first to be announced as Intel shifts strategies to pursue Nvidia, which leads the chip market for artificial intelligence, and AMD, which is expected to challenge Nvidia's position with a chip called MI300.

Meanwhile, Intel barely has a market share after its supposed competitor, a chip called Ponte Vecchio, has been delayed for years.

On Monday, Intel said it was nearing completion of sending super Aurora computers to the Argonne National Laboratory based on the Ponte Vecchio, which Intel says had better performance than Nvidia's latest AI chip, H100.

However, Intel's new successor Falcon Shores chip will be available on the market by 2025, where Nvidia will likely have their own chips.

Jeff McVeigh, chief interim group of computing and graphical systems accelerated by Intel, said the company was taking time to fix the chip after cutting a previous strategy to merge graphics processing units (GPUs) with their central processing units (CPUs).

"While we wish to have the best CPUs and GPUs in the market, it's hard to say that one vendor at a time will have the best combination of both," McVeigh told Reuters. "If you have a separate offer, it will allow you at the platform level to choose both the ratio and the vendor."