On June 4 astatine Computex, held successful Taiwan, Intel announced the adjacent procreation of its AI PC products: the Lunar Lake lawsuit processor architecture. Other reveals from Intel astatine the planetary machine expo were:
- Pricing for the Intel Gaudi 2 and Gaudi 3 AI accelerator kits.
- The merchandise of Intel Xeon 6 processors with Efficient-cores (E-cores).
Intel products are disposable globally from the corp and its distributors.
Lunar Lake processor runs astatine up to 48 TOPS
Intel revealed the details of the Lunar Lake processor, which volition alteration AI PC performance. Lunar Lake brings:
- 40% little system-on-chip powerfulness and much than 3 times the AI compute compared to the erstwhile generation.
- An NPU with up to 48 trillion operations per second.
- A caller GPU plan with Xe2 GPU cores for improved graphics show and Xe Matrix Extension arrays, which is simply a 2nd AI accelerator with up to 67 TOPS.
Lunar Lake volition look successful AI PCs from much than 20 brands, including Microsoft, passim 2024.
The Lunar Lake processor tin execute 48 TOPS of AI operations. Image: Intel CorporationCompetitors to Lunar Lake
Intel’s Lunar Lake competes with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite, AMD’s AI 300 series, Apple’s M4 and an progressively crowded tract of chips designed to marque generative AI enactment connected PCs.
Companies are competing for greater TOPS velocity and reduced powerfulness gully to alteration AI PC capabilities similar Microsoft’s Copilot. AMD claims its AI 300 bid reaches 50 TOPS. NVIDIA is talking astir getting betwixt 200 and 1,300 TOPS with its GeForce RTX GPUs for gaming and heavy-duty originative enactment connected PCs and workstations.
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Last week, it was announced that Intel is portion of a promoter radical for a modular communications accelerator meant for AI chips successful information centers, too.
For concern usage cases, faster AI show could powerfulness seamless generative AI assistants. Copilot, for instance, runs connected OpenAI’s technology. OpenAI and Microsoft are moving connected making its generative AI sound much similar humans and retrieve wherever you mightiness person dropped a mislaid point connected your Copilot+ PC.
Intel Gaudi 2 and 3 pricing revealed
A modular AI kit made up of 8 Gaudi 2 AI accelerators and a cosmopolitan baseboard volition beryllium disposable to strategy providers astatine $65,000. Gaudi 2 is shipping now.
A kit made up of 8 Gaudi 3 AI accelerators and a cosmopolitan baseboard volition beryllium disposable to strategy providers astatine $125,000. It volition beryllium disposable successful Q2 2024.
In summation to revealing the terms of the kits, Intel announced astatine Computex that six caller providers volition beryllium moving with Gaudi 3. Asus, Foxconn, Gigabyte, Inventec, Quanta and Wistron person been added to the archetypal deals with Dell, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Lenovo and Supermicro.
The Intel Xeon 6 P-Core processor is disposable now
Initially introduced astatine the Intel Vision conference successful April, the archetypal of the 2 caller Xeon 6 processors was made disposable opening June 3, Intel announced astatine Computex. That processor, the Intel Xeon 6 P-core (code-named Sierra Forest), is suitable for AI, different high-performance computing projects and cloud-native applications.
One tier up from the Xeon 6 P-core is the Xeon 6 E-core (code-named Granite Rapids), which has a shared bundle stack with the P-core version, plus:
- Higher halfway density.
- Better show per watt.
- Lower vigor costs.
The Xeon 6 E-core is expected to vessel successful the 3rd 4th of 2024.
A idiosyncratic astatine the Intel Kulim Test Assembly Test installation successful Malaysia examines Intel Xeon 6 processors with E-cores. Image: Intel Corporation“AI is driving 1 of the astir consequential eras of innovation the manufacture has ever seen,” said Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger successful a press release. “The magic of silicon is erstwhile again enabling exponential advancements successful computing that volition propulsion the boundaries of quality imaginable and powerfulness the planetary system for years to come.”
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