Intel to launch AI chip as it competes with Nvidia and AMD, says its processors will be ‘different’

Intel has announced that it will launch an artificial intelligence (AI) chip for the data centre next year as part of a renewed push to break into the AI chip market dominated by Nvidia and AMD. The new chip, called Crescent Island, will be optimised for energy efficiency and support a wide range of uses such as running AI applications and inference.

“It emphasises that focus that I talked about earlier, inference, optimized for AI, optimized, optimized for delivering the best token economics out there, the best performance per dollar out there,” said Intel CTO Sachin Katti said at the Open Compute Summit this week.