The entire industry is motivated to eliminate the CUDA market, said Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger.
There was a time when Intel and Nvidia could stay clear of each other’s lanes more or less. That time is no more, especially with Intel entering the GPU race and both companies pushing forward with AI.
The new rivalry came to a head for Intel while announcing its new Core Ultra and 5th Gen Xeon chips at an event in New York City. Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger took an interesting jab at Nvidia’s CUDA technology. According to him, inference is going to surpass the importance of training for AI. He also questioned the long-term dominance of Nvidia’s CUDA as an interface for training, considering it a “shallow moat that the industry is motivated to eliminate.“ Ouch. Those are fightin’ words.
For the uninitiated, CUDA is short for Compute Unified Device Architecture, which serves as a parallel computing platform exclusively available to Nvidia graphics cards. Programmers can leverage CUDA libraries to tap into the computational prowess of Nvidia GPUs, enabling accelerated execution of machine learning algorithms.
