Intel has announced that it will be including an AI speed boost with its Meteor Lake chip for PCs later this year. The chip will feature built-in circuitry that accelerates specific AI tasks, which, in turn, can significantly improve privacy, security, and response time. By using a laptop or phone processor instead of relying on the cloud, users can expect better performance and faster results. Developers could be convinced to produce further software drawing on AI abilities with this new innovation. While the GPU is currently being used to accelerate AI in PCs, Intel’s Meteor Lake will introduce a new AI-specific accelerator that offers low power usage while the GPU provides top-performance — both options will be available simultaneously on the chip.
Intel has been attempting to catch up with chipmaking rivals TSMC and Samsung for years now, and its Meteor Lake chip is a vital part of its turnaround strategy. The company’s focus has historically been on providing economically-valuable products, as opposed to the performance-focused emphasis of Nvidia. Intel’s new chip, which is designed for lower power consumption, upgraded graphics acceleration and built with the advanced manufacturing technology of Intel 4, is crucial for keeping up with current and future technologies.
John Rayfield, leader of Intel’s client AI work, leads the development of the new Meteor Lake chip for PCs. The new chip features built-in circuitry that accelerates specific AI tasks with low power usage. It also includes the latest manufacturing technology Foveros, which provides flexibility and a cost-effective way to stack multiple chiplets into a single, more powerful processor. Rayfield and his team have been working on the chip in an effort to improve compute efficiency by shifting more AI-related work from the cloud to client products, such as PCs.
