The Intel Execution in [2024]

[Cyan]

Intel has gone through some hard times as of lately, but they have interesting things like VPro and now 18A, a technology Microsoft is interested in and signed a deal with them.

Intel CEO admits 'I've bet the whole company on 18A'

Pet Gelsinger resisted the idea last year, now he won't deny everything is riding on Intel's most advanced node yet.

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[pharma]

Intel shares biggest unboxing video ever as ASML’s $380 million High-NA lithography machine is installed in Oregon fab

Video shows the machine going from cargo plane, to truck, to its home in Intel’s Oregon fab.

www.tomshardware.com

 

[Cyan]

Threadripper 7000 outsells Intel Xeon 10 to 1, but Intel's mainstream PC chips dominate Ryzen 7000 in Puget Systems 2024 Hardware Trends report

Ryzen 7000 wasn't a big hit for Puget customers.

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[CarstenS]

I'm not surprised that TR7K is selling much better than the Xeons. But for R7K vs. Core-i I'd have thought AMD would do better.

 

[entity279]

The mind factory numbers frequently published on x indicate (while they don't prove) that R7K is doing better in retail.

 

[Kaotik]

I'm not surprised that TR7K is selling much better than the Xeons. But for R7K vs. Core-i I'd have thought AMD would do better.

It does in DIY market but OEM/prebuilts are still overwhelmingly more Intel than AMD, TR or not

 

[pharma]

Intel Gaudi 2 Accelerator Up To 55% Faster Than NVIDIA H100 In Stable Diffusion, 3x Faster Than A100 In AI Benchmark Showdown

Stability AI has published a blog post that offers an AI benchmark showdown between Intel Gaudi 2 & NVIDIA's H100 and A100 GPU accelerators.

wccftech.com

 

[dorf]

That's a training benchmark btw. The Wccftech writer only mentions this in the fifth paragraph for some reason.

And as Techpowerup uses Wccftech as their source for the same story and doesn't read the original source article, they manage to misunderstand it and claim that the benchmark in question is an inference benchmark.

Intel Gaudi2 Accelerator Beats NVIDIA H100 at Stable Diffusion 3 by 55%

Stability AI, the developers behind the popular Stable Diffusion generative AI model, have run some first-party performance benchmarks for Stable Diffusion 3 using popular data-center AI GPUs, including the NVIDIA H100 "Hopper" 80 GB, A100 "Ampere" 80 GB, and Intel's Gaudi2 96 GB accelerator...

www.techpowerup.com

 

[Cyan]

Intel Gaudi 2 Accelerator Up To 55% Faster Than NVIDIA H100 In Stable Diffusion, 3x Faster Than A100 In AI Benchmark Showdown

Stability AI has published a blog post that offers an AI benchmark showdown between Intel Gaudi 2 & NVIDIA's H100 and A100 GPU accelerators.

wccftech.com

great news that the competition is starting to wake up, 'cos having a monopoly in the AI department is certainly not interesting for the future of the industry and to develop a variety of ideas and solutions. Also this way nVidia might start caring about their traditional GPUs too.

On a different note....

The five best Intel CPUs of all time: Chipzilla's rise and fall and rise

Intel is kind of an underdog now.

www.tomshardware.com

Also, there is this article showing how a chip is made. The most impressive part is the interactive real time zoom where you can compare the size of a human hair, a red blood cell, a virus, pollen, etc to a chip transistor. It¡s very well done.

Inside the miracle of modern chip manufacturing

After coming up against the limits of physics, scientists are rethinking chip architecture like never before

ig.ft.com

 

[Kaotik]

That's a training benchmark btw. The Wccftech writer only mentions this in the fifth paragraph for some reason.

And as Techpowerup uses Wccftech as their source for the same story and doesn't read the original source article, they manage to misunderstand it and claim that the benchmark in question is an inference benchmark.

Intel Gaudi2 Accelerator Beats NVIDIA H100 at Stable Diffusion 3 by 55%

Stability AI, the developers behind the popular Stable Diffusion generative AI model, have run some first-party performance benchmarks for Stable Diffusion 3 using popular data-center AI GPUs, including the NVIDIA H100 "Hopper" 80 GB, A100 "Ampere" 80 GB, and Intel's Gaudi2 96 GB accelerator...

www.techpowerup.com

The original source (stability ai) has both training and inference results

 

[dorf]

The original source (stability ai) has both training and inference results

Yes, but TPU is citing training results as generation aka inference results:

With 2 nodes, 16 accelerators, and a constant batch size of 16 per accelerator (256 in all), the Intel Gaudi2 array is able to generate 927 images per second

StabilityAI in the original article:

Keeping the batch size constant at 16 per accelerator, this Gaudi 2 system processed 927 training images per second

 

[Cyan]

Qualcomm's Arm chip beats Intel in pre-launch Windows performance demo — Snapdragon X Elite X1E80100 takes down Core 7 Ultra 155H

Score one for Arm and Qualcomm.

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Intel Core i9-14900KS Review: The Last Core i9 Hits Record 6.2 GHz at Stock Settings

6.2 GHz and a whole lotta power draw.

www.tomshardware.com

 

[Flappy Pannus]

Intel adds 12 games to Application Optimization (APO) and “Advanced Mode” enabling 12th Gen Core+ support​

The original debut of this was restricted to such a meagre collection of games it was largely dismissed as a marketing stunt, and to be sure ~15 games is still a paltry sampling, but far better than 3. There were some pretty tangible benefits with the first three so will be interesting to see if those results extend to these titles.

 

[Cyan]

Intel awarded $8.5 billion in funding for building chipmaking fabs - CHIPS Act funding to boost US semiconductor manufacturing

Intel also gets a 25% tax credit for up to $100 billion.

www.tomshardware.com

 

[Jay]

Would've liked to have seen battlemage by now. Entering qtr2 soon, by the time it releases could be close to next gen AMD & Nvidia.
Also hope their XeSS FG is coming along nicely, but would've been nice to see it (if progress is looking good).
Not heard anything about either.

 

[pharma]

Intel & AMD CPUs Blocked By China: No Government PC To Use Chips From US Companies

The Chinese government has blocked the use of Intel and AMD CPUs into government computers, creating new hostilities in the tech industry.

wccftech.com

 

[Cyan]

Intel kicks off the AI PC era.

Intel Announces New Program for AI PC Software Developers and...

Intel expands its AI PC Acceleration Program to better equip software developers and independent hardware vendors.

www.intel.com

 

[Cyan]

TOPS is all the rage.

Intel confirms Microsoft's Copilot AI will soon run locally on PCs, next-gen AI PCs require 40 TOPS of NPU performance

Let the TOPS wars begin.

www.tomshardware.com

 

[del42sa]

https://www.reuters.com/technology/intel-discloses-financials-foundry-business-2024-04-02/

Intel said the manufacturing unit had $7 billion in operating losses for 2023, a steeper loss than the $5.2 billion in operating losses the year before. The unit had revenue of $18.9 billion for 2023, down 31% from $27.49 billion the year before.

 

[Cyan]

https://www.reuters.com/technology/intel-discloses-financials-foundry-business-2024-04-02/

more on that matter.

Intel's chip foundry keeps losing billions of dollars but CEO Gelsinger says this is it, this year is 'the trough'

Internal restructuring and foundry investments are the first steps back to profitability.

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