Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger takes shot at Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s claim that Intel processors are outdated in AI era
- Intel will have a major role to play in the proliferation of AI as a leading provider of PC chips, Gelsinger says at Taiwan’s Computex expo
- While Intel’s sales have stopped shrinking, analysts expect the company to end 2024 with US$20 billion less revenue than it had in 2021
Intel showed its new Xeon 6 data-centre processors with more efficient cores that will allow operators to cut down the space required for a given task to a third of prior-generation hardware.
Like rivals, from Advanced Micro Devices to Qualcomm, Intel touted benchmarks that showed its new silicon is significantly better than its existing options. AMD and Qualcomm’s CEOs, in earlier Computex keynotes, used Intel’s laptop and desktop processors to show how far ahead they are in certain aspects of technology.
“Unlike what Jensen would have you believe, Moore’s Law is alive and well,” he said, stressing that Intel will have a major role to play in the proliferation of AI as the leading provider of personal-computer chips.
“I think of it like the internet 25 years ago, it’s that big,” Gelsinger said. “We see this as the fuel that’s driving the semiconductor industry to reach US$1 trillion by the end of the decade.”
Intel’s Gaudi systems, which compile its chips into kits of multiple processors tailored to handle generative AI training, will be offered by partners like Dell Technologies and Inventec, Gelsinger said.
