Intel Corp's major product launch last Thursday showed the organization is clearly thriving, says Denis Gaudreault, national director of Intel Canada, adding that he hopes that in a few years “people will be writing books about our recovery.” “.
The launch, he said in an interview with IT World Canada, was well received by enterprise customers and the distribution chain, who “told us: We need you like before, with better execution and more predictability on your roadmap.”
Denis Gaudreault called the various announcements made at an event in New York called AI Everywhere “a turning point in our new strategy.”
These included the following:
- The Intel Core Ultra family of mobile processors, codenamed Meteor Lake, which Intel described as “the first to build on Intel Process Technology 4 and the first to benefit from the company's biggest architectural change in 40 years.” It offers “the most energy efficient Intel client processor and ushers in the AI PC era.”
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- The company's CEO, Pat Gelsinger, first unveiled an Intel Gaudi3 AI accelerator, which he said is on schedule to arrive next year.
“AI innovations will increase the impact of the digital economy to up to a third of global gross domestic product,” Gelsinger said in a statement. “Intel is developing technologies and solutions that enable customers to seamlessly integrate AI into their applications and run efficiently – in the cloud and increasingly locally on the PC and at the edge, where data is generated and used.” »
Intel Core Ultra, says a press release, “will enable the launch of the AI PC generation with innovations on all fronts: processor computing, graphics, performance, battery life and new AI features.”
The company described PC AI, expected to be available in 230 models from laptop and PC manufacturers around the world, as “the biggest change to the PC experience in 20 years, since Intel Centrino laptops connected to Wi-Fi from anywhere.” are.”
“With dedicated AI acceleration capabilities distributed across the central processing unit (CPU), graphics processing unit (GPU), and neural processing unit (NPU), Intel Core Ultra processor is “the most successful and power-efficient AI customer in Intel history .” “says the press release.
Intel's latest NPU, called Intel AI Boost, is “specifically designed to handle long-running, low-power AI workloads and complements managed AI on both the CPU and GPU.”
In a presentation, Pat Gelsinger described what he called the “driving force in silicon”: the creation of a trillion-dollar market by the end of the decade and the role of AI in enabling it to advance faster into the future. »
“To use a baseball analogy, we’re in the early innings. Well, no, maybe we're still warming up. No, maybe we are still in the pre-season and know what impact that will have. But when we view artificial intelligence as something we don't understand or control, we consider it a disservice to see things that way.
“Instead, how we integrate it into our human lives, into human intelligence, how we integrate it into ourselves and everything we do. And we believe that introducing this value into the human experience is an opportunity for AI – Augmented Intelligence. »
He cited his own family history as an example of how technology can help: “In my family we have a disorder – we lose our hearing at a young age.” My father was almost deaf when he died, and my AI-assisted Starkey hearing aids make me feel better. There's nothing out there. It is there and expands my human experience. »
“And we believe that this paradigm shift – the way people and technology come together – will be powerfully enabled by AI. And that brings us back to Intel's vision that we will work on technologies that improve the lives of every person on earth. »
In data centers, Intel says the new Xeon processor family “provides an average performance gain of 21% for general computing power compared to the previous generation, enabling 36% higher average performance per watt across a range of workloads.”
Its AI accelerators, it said, “coupled with optimized software and enhanced telemetry capabilities, enable more manageable and efficient delivery of demanding network and edge workloads for providers of communications services, content delivery networks and broad vertical markets such as retail, healthcare and manufacturing.”
According to the press release, Intel Core Ultra and 5th Gen Xeon will “find their way to places you might not expect.” Imagine a restaurant that determines your menu choices based on your budget and dietary needs. a manufacturing workshop that detects quality and safety issues at the source; an ultrasound that sees what the human eye might miss; a power grid that manages electricity with meticulous precision.
No specifications have been given for the upcoming Gaudi3, which is expected to compete with AMD's M1300 and NVDIA's H100, according to a published report. However, Mr. Gelsinger described it as “from production, in the lab, under voltage, looks healthy.”
The original article is available on IT World Canada, a sister publication of Direction IT.
Adaptation and French translation by Renaud Larue-Langlois.