Intel Corp on Tuesday launched a new chip called Gaudi2 focused on artificial intelligence computing, as the chip manufacturer makes a bigger push into the AI chip market currently dominated by Nvidia Corp.
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Gaudi2 is the second generation processor by Habana Labs, an Israeli AI chip startup Intel bought in late 2019 for about $2 billion. AI chip startups have been getting huge investments in recent years as AI computing is one of the fastest-growing areas for data centers.
Prying market share away from Nvidia has been a challenge as many AI researchers and companies have been accustomed to using Nvidia's software platform CUDA. So in addition to new chips for AI computing, Intel told Reuters it has been focusing on its software development.
"CUDA is not a moat that Nvidia can really stand on for long," said the chief business officer at Habana Labs Eitan Medina, adding that Intel's software platform is an open standard, free to download, and use from GitHub, the software development site. Medina said the Gaudi2 was twice as fast as Habana's previous AI chip.
