Gelsinger: GPUs are uniquely suited for AI due to matrix processing
Pat Gelsinger · Intel's CEO Shares His Plan To Win The AI Chip War — With Pat Gelsinger · Dec 14, 2023 · at 0:36
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger explains the foundational architecture differences between CPUs and GPUs and why GPUs excel at AI workloads.
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“A GPU, instead, is really built for a very specific class of workloads, and generally those have been called throughput workloads, so it does lots of floating point processing and matrix operations, You know, and so it's very dedicated for things like graphics, matrix, and now, right, it's worked out to be uniquely good at things like AI.”
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