Intel Corp on Tuesday unveiled a new chip called Gaudi2 focused on synthetic intelligence, as the chipmaker makes a breakthrough in the AI chip market recently ruled by Nvidia Corp.
Gaudi2 is the second-generation processor of Habana Labs, an Israeli synthetic intelligence chip startup that Intel bought in late 2019 for about $2 billion. the fastest developing spaces for knowledge centers.
Taking a market share away from Nvidia has been a challenge, as many AI researchers and corporations have become accustomed to Nvidia’s CUDA software platform. Then, in addition to new chips for AI computing, Intel told Reuters it was focused on its software development.
“CUDA is not a hole that Nvidia can support for long,” said Eitan Medina, lead advertising officer at Habana Labs, adding that Intel’s software platform is an open, downloadable and usable standard for free from GitHub, the software progression site. Now the question is who can do the task effectively?”
Medina said the Gaudí2 is twice as fast as Havana’s previous AI chip and became Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co’s 16-nanometer 7-nanometer transistor generation in the past. In general, the smaller the length of the transistor, the faster and more resilient the chip.
Intel also introduced a new chip called Greco for inference work: taking a set of AI rules and making a prediction or identifying an object.
Sandra Rivera, who heads Intel’s AI and knowledge center, said the AI chip market is expected to grow about 25 percent annually over the next five years to about $50 billion. “We intend to invest and innovate to dominate this market,” he said. He said, adding that the investments will be in software, either to expand Intel’s team or to buy other companies.
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