Intel Scores an Agentic AI Win

Semiconductor giant Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) is in the process of resetting its artificial intelligence (AI) strategy under new CEO Lip-Bu Tan. The company's attempts to break into the AI training market failed, with its Gaudi line of AI chips hobbled by immature software, and its next-generation Falcon Shores GPU scrapped as a commercial product. Recently, Intel unveiled Crescent Island, a new GPU aimed at AI inference workloads and focused on efficiency.Outside of GPUs, Intel's Xeon server CPUs are another weapon in the company's AI arsenal. Intel's Xeon 6 CPUs can be paired with GPUs, but they also provide a significant amount of AI inferencing capacity on their own. One example Intel gave earlier this year was a 38-core system capable of running AI inference on 38 camera streams in a video edge server simultaneously.Image source: Intel.Continue readingWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool