Intel launches AI chips for servers and clients

Also at the event, Intel showed off its Gaudi3 dedicated AI processor, saying it is on track to ship sometime in 2024.

On the client side, Intel showed off the Core Ultra mobile processor family, which is the first built on the Intel 4 process technology and the first to utilize AI processing on the client.

AI on the client is important because it will complement and support server-side AI processing, most notably in the area of inference. Some data cannot be processed in the cloud, such as regulated data, and must remain within the confines of a company’s firewall. So to protect the integrity of data and take the load off the servers, inference processing is moving to the client.

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said in a statement: “Intel is developing the technologies and solutions that empower customers to seamlessly integrate and effectively run AI in all their applications — in the cloud and, increasingly, locally at the PC and edge, where data is generated and used.”

Francis Sideco, principal analyst with TIRIAS Research, attended a briefing with Gelsinger, and the issue of the new chips coming so soon after the fourth generation was brought up. Gelsinger responded, “what do you want me to do, slow down?”

Sideco couldn’t disagree with Gelsinger on that one. “They want to get these out and get caught back up in leadership. The only way he felt they could get back to the leadership that they were, that they’re shooting for, is to go fast,” he said. Sideco noted that AMD is also on a fast release cadence with its Epyc server processors.