At its Vision 2024 event, Intel gave an AI-focused presentation and announced some new hardware coming soon.
Whether or not it is organic reality, tech companies have unilaterally decided that generative AI is the next big thing, and vendors at every level of the supply chain are pouring billions of dollars into developing AI hardware and software. That obviously includes Intel, whose presentation today at its Intel Vision 2024 event was heavily focused on AI and the hardware and software that it can offer to run it.
We’re hardware-focused around these parts—it’s in the name, after all—so we’re not going to go over the software in any detail, but the general idea behind Intel’s software approach is that its customers can just buy whatever Intel hardware suits their needs and the intermediate layers will take care of everything. But what AI hardware does Intel offer? Primarily, Gaudi AI accelerators and Xeon processors with AI-focused instruction set extensions.
Intel has new hardware coming to both of those categories soon, and it announced them at its Vision event. Gaudi 3 is naturally the successor to the Gaudi 2 AI accelerator, and Intel says that the upcoming 5nm package will offer double the FP8 performance, quadruple the BF16 performance, double the network bandwidth, and a 50% uplift in memory bandwidth compared to Gaudi 2.
