Intel Says It Won’t Compete With NVIDIA In AI Market, Shifts Focus Towards Bringing Cost-Effective AI Solutions With Gaudi 3

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Intel has given up the AI race with NVIDIA & is now in pursuit of launching cost-effective solutions with its new Gaudi 3 AI offerings.

Intel's Gaudi 3 AI GPUs Will Feature Industry-Leading Performance-Per-Dollar Value, But Won't Compete With NVIDIA As Blue Team Shifts Target Market

Well, it seems like Team Blue has finally realized that competing in the "compute power" race with NVIDIA isn't the viable path for them to have a sustainable business.

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Instead, the firm is now tapping into a relatively unpopulated AI business segment, which is a cost-efficient implementation of AI accelerators, which is likely going to amuse a larger part of the industry. Based on a report by CRN, Intel is pitching its newest Gaudi 3 AI GPUs as a valuable offering, coming in with some of the best price-to-performance ratios available in the markets.

Intel claims that its Gaudi 3 lineup offers performance equivalent to NVIDIA's popular H100 AI accelerator, particularly in inferencing workloads, which have seen a massive rise following the debut of "reasoning-focused" LLM models. In terms of the actual figures, Intel claims that the Gaudi 3 AI accelerator provides 80% better performance-per-dollar value when compared with NVIDIA's H100, and when benchmarking at Llama-2, the performance-per-dollar difference goes up by 2x, which is indeed impressive.

The firm is solely pitching the new AI lineup as the best solution for small-scale startups and individuals looking to acquire AI computing power. However, when tested in floating-point operations, the Gaudi 3 AI GPUs do feel short of NVIDIA's alternatives, suggesting that hardcore AI performance isn't Intel's cup of tea for now.

Team Blue has realized that they can't compete with NVIDIA when it comes to hardware dominance. Surprisingly, the firm claims that they aren't looking towards capitalizing on