Intel Introduces Gaudi 3 AI Chip to Rival Nvidia, Collaborates with Infosys, Bharti Airtel, and Ola in India
Nvidia’s H100 processor can train large language models 50% faster and compute generative AI responses 50% faster than the new chip.
Intel Introduces Gaudi 3 AI Chip to Rival Nvidia: In an effort to challenge Nvidia’s dominance in AI semiconductors, Intel revealed details of its new artificial intelligence chip, the Gaudi 3.
Nvidia’s H100 processor can train large language models 50% faster and compute generative AI responses 50% faster than the new chip.
Intel Introduces Gaudi 3 AI Chip to Rival Nvidia, Collaborates with Infosys, Bharti Airtel, and Ola in India
Several tech companies are scrambling to find alternative sources of the scarce chips needed for AI.
It is part of Intel’s new open scalable systems, next-generation products, and strategic collaborations aimed at accelerating the adoption of generative Artificial Intelligence at Intel Vision 2024.
Pat Gelsinger, Intel CEO, said that every company is becoming an AI company, and Intel is bringing AI to every area of the enterprise.
In the second quarter of 2024, OEMs including Dell Technologies, HPE, Lenovo, and Supermicro will be able to buy the Gaudi 3.
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Moreover, Intel announced collaborations with Bharti Airtel, Infosys, and Ola/Krutrim to deploy Gaudi accelerators.
Bharti Airtel plans to leverage its telecom data to enhance its AI capabilities and enhance customer experience. The deployments will help drive new revenue streams for the second-biggest telecom company in the country.
Infosys: The company announced a strategic collaboration to bring Intel technologies including 4th and 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors, Intel Gaudi 2 AI accelerators and Intel Core Ultra to Infosys Topaz – an AI-first set of services, solutions, and platforms that accelerate business value using generative AI technologies.
Ola/Krutrim: The Indian AI model will use Intel’s new technology to pre-train and fine-tune its first India foundational model with generative capabilities in 10 languages. Krutrim is now pre-training a larger foundational model on an Intel Gaudi 2 cluster.
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Intel also announced collaborations with Google Cloud, Thales and Cohesity to leverage Intel’s confidential computing capabilities in their cloud instances. This includes Intel Trust Domain Extensions (Intel TDX), Intel Software Guard Extensions (Intel SGX) and Intel’s attestation service. Customers can run their AI models and algorithms in a trusted execution environment (TEE) and leverage Intel’s trust services for independently verifying the trust worthiness of these TEEs.
Despite the advancements, Intel and Advanced Micro Devices have struggled to produce a compelling bundle of chips and the necessary software to build AI applications that can rival Nvidia, which controlled roughly 83 per cent of the data center chip market in 2023.
The Gaudi 3 chip, more than twice as fast as its predecessor, was built using Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co’s 5nm process and will be available to server builders such as Supermicro and Hewlett Packard Enterprise in the second quarter of this year.
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