"Intel's Gaudi 3 AI Accelerator Takes Aim at Nvidia's Dominance"
Intel introduces the Gaudi 3 AI accelerator, the next-generation of Gaudi high-performance AI accelerators from its subsidiary, Habana Labs, aiming to compete in the AI market. With a heavy focus on AI, Intel is shipping samples to customers and expects to outperform NVIDIA's flagship Hopper architecture accelerators in some critical large language models. The Gaudi 3 features 1835 TFLOPS of FP8 compute throughput and is set to launch in the third quarter of 2024. It comes with a dual-die setup, 200Gb Ethernet interconnect, and will be available in both OAM and PCIe form factors, with the PCIe version set to launch in the fourth quarter of this year.