Intel CEO Pat [kicking] Gelsinger said that AI will become part of every business and an inflection point for the PC market, and Chipzilla will have a product everywhere.
“We see AI as a workload, not as a market, which will affect every aspect of the business—whether it’s client, whether it’s edge, whether it’s standard data centre, on-premises enterprise or cloud,” Gelsinger said .
“We’re going to build AI into every product that we build—whether it’s a client, whether it’s an edge platform for retail and manufacturing and industrial use cases. Whether it’s an enterprise data centre. … We firmly believe in this idea of democratising AI, opening the software stack and creating and participating with this broad industry ecosystem that’s emerging. It’s a great opportunity and one that Intel is well-positioned to participate in.”
Gelsinger thinks that Meteor Lake, a next-generation processor will be a way for Intel put AI into PCs in much the same way that its Centrino wireless computer network adapters helped the spread of Wi-Fi in the 2000s.
“We do see Meteor Lake ushering in the AI PC generation where you have tens of watts responding in a second or two,” he said. “And then AI is going to be in every hearing aid in the future—including mine—where it’s 10 microwatts and instantaneous. … AI drives workloads across the full spectrum of applications.”
“There’s going to be AI chips for the edge. AI chips for the communications infrastructure. AI chips for sensing devices. For automotive devices,” he said. “And we see opportunities for us, both as a product provider and as a foundry and technology provider across that spectrum.”
