Intel Launches New Chip To Encourage New Era Chatbot

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger and employees launched the latest Chip. (photo: x @PGelsinger)

On Thursday, December 14, Intel announced that dozens of private computer manufacturers are using its newest chips, as companies and their customers seek to persuade consumers to upgrade their machines to a new era of chatbots.

At a press event in New York, Intel said that the new offer will be available on laptops from Dell Technologies, Microsoft, Lenovo Group, and others that will be sold from Thursday at Best Buy in the United States and other global retailers including JD.com in China and Harvey Norman in Australia. Intel shares rose to 3.6% after this news.

Intel's central processing unit (CPU) has long served as the brain of most private computers. However, the new chip known as "Meteor Lake" is Intel's first chip to contain what it calls a neural processing unit (NPU), part of a chip dedicated to handling artificial intelligence tasks.

Intel's offer to consumers and businesses comes as the company struggles out of the post-pandemic PC slump where buyers who upgrade to work from home in 2020 see no reason to buy any more new equipment.

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said during the event that Intel believes its chip usage will make artificial intelligence services cheaper, faster, and more private than using cloud data center-based services.

"It will be the main star in the coming year," Gelsinger said of artificial intelligence on PCs. "You release this power to everyone, every case of use, every location in the future."

During a new chip demonstration in September, Intel showed several examples of artificial intelligence work that are expected to attract, such as transcripting voice records without having to send data to third-party cloud providers or producing songs in pop star style Taylor Swift.

On Thursday, Intel also showed what it called the first working version of a chip called Gaudi 3, which is expected to challenge Nvidia's chips in the data center artificial intelligence market.