"Intel and Nvidia Push Boundaries of AI and HPC at SC23"

At SC23, Intel showcased the performance of its GPU Max 1550 series compared to AMD MI250 and NVIDIA A100, highlighting its competitiveness in the accelerator market. While Aurora, Intel's new supercomputer, is still being fine-tuned and won't secure the top spot on the Top500 list, it has allowed Intel to sell GPUs to other parties. Intel also presented its Gaudi2 AI accelerator, which demonstrated comparable performance to NVIDIA's H100 in MLPerf Inference tests. Additionally, Intel unveiled its Gaudi3 architecture, featuring eight HBM stacks and promising increased capacity for AI applications. However, the announcement of Falcon Shores, the unification of Intel's GPU and AI lines, still using HBM3 instead of HBM3e, raised some questions.