Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger divides the AI chip landscape into hyperscalers developing custom in-house silicon and merchant vendors selling to third parties.
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Gelsinger: Nvidia got lucky on AI because AI workloads resemble graphics
“Yeah, and it very much is that way, and Jensen and I, you know, we've known each other for 35 years, you know, this general purpose workload, and we always are adding more capabilities to the CPU, but over here, it was always just go really fast for graphics, …”
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Gelsinger: Intel aims to manufacture chips for Nvidia, AMD, and hyperscalers
“You know, we're also going to be a foundry. We're going to be the manufacturer for many of those chips as well. So we want to be the manufacturer for Nvidia, for AMD, for Google, for Amazon. We want to be their manufacturing partner, even if we're not using ou…”
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2030
Gelsinger: Global chip production will reach 50/50 East-West balance by 2030
“By the end of the decade, so, you know, seven, eight years, I think we can get close to fifty-fifty by the end of the decade, and if we accomplish that, right, over a seven or eight year period, I think the world is going to sleep much better at night”
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Gelsinger: Chip fab locations are more geopolitically vital than oil reserves
“Where oil reserves are has defined geopolitics for 50 years. Where technology and fabs are for the future is more important.”
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Gelsinger: About a third of Intel data center CPU purchases are for AI
“And for my standard CPUs today in the data center, you know, we see about a third of the purchases are being based For AI workloads.”
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Gelsinger: Intel's AI business is approximately doubling growth rate quarter-over-quarter
“We're now seeing our growth rate and quarter to quarter, we approximately doubled the growth rate, you know, but we're still small market share, you know, today, but we're rising quickly because customers are looking for alternatives, you know, today because t…”