Intel (INTC.US) launches new generation AI chips Xeon 6 and Gaudi 3 to challenge Nvidia's dominance

On Monday, Intel (INTC.US) officially launched its new Xeon6 processors and Gaudi3 AI accelerators, which are designed to enhance the company's competitiveness in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC), potentially challenging Nvidia's dominance in this area.

Intel introduced the Gaudi3 accelerator for enterprise generative AI in April at its Intel Vision 2024 conference, and in June, the company showcased the Xeon6 with P-cores.

The Xeon6 processors feature performance cores (P-cores) that can double the performance of AI visual processing, while the Gaudi3 accelerators have a throughput that is 20% higher. This means that these new products will be more adept at handling complex computing tasks. Meanwhile, Xeon6 has a higher core count and memory bandwidth, which can meet the needs of various application scenarios from edge computing to data centers.

Justin Rattner, executive vice president of Intel's Data Center and AI Group, said that the current AI demand is driving significant changes in data centers, and the industry needs more choices in hardware, software, and development tools. Through the launch of Xeon6 and Gaudi3, Intel hopes to help customers improve performance and security and achieve more efficient AI solutions.

Gaudi3, designed for large-scale generative AI, has 64 tensor processing cores and 8 matrix multiplication engines, which can greatly accelerate the calculations of deep neural networks.