The AI War of The Words: Intel CEO Says NVIDIA’s Success Came From “Pure Luck”, NVIDIA Says It Came From Vision & Execution Which Intel Lacked

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Intel and many other tech companies have amassed against NVIDIA in a "War of Words" claiming that the green team's AI success came from "Luck". However, NVIDIA says that the company's success is attributed to clear vision and execution which Intel lacked.

The whole fiasco started when Intel's CEO Pat Gelsinger taunted NVIDIA's financial achievements in the data center segment, claiming that the company's CEO Jensen Huang got "lucky" with it.  Intel believes that fate positioned NVIDIA & its portfolio of AI GPUs in the right place, and it had nothing to do with the contributions of Team Green to improve its AI arsenal. The statement is pretty controversial since Intel claims that NVIDIA's triumph has nothing to do with the company's efforts, rather it is just pure luck. Here is what Gelsinger had to say during the MIT broad-ranging discussion:

Jensen worked super hard at owning throughput computing, primarily for graphics initially, and then got extraordinarily lucky. They didn't even want to support their first AI project.

Pat Gelsinger (Intel CEO) via Manufacturing@MIT

The interesting part here is that apparently, Intel's CEO believes that if the company had continued its Larabee project, which was ongoing until Gelsinger left the company, and then later returned 11 years ago.

For those unaware of Intel Larabee, it was a project initiated by Intel to develop a highly parallel, many-core architecture. It was initially intended for the consumer segment, however, Intel shifted its focus and repositioned Larabee for high-performance computing (HPC) and parallel processing tasks. Team Blue didn't see the AI hype a decade ago, but the Larabee project could've positioned them better in the markets.

I worked at Intel on Larrabee