The passion that has been awakened by Artificial Intelligence applications and its uses in various commercial and consumer fields has caused the three main hardware suppliers in the world to start a race to supply this demanding market, even faster than for consumers who want graphics cards. And since AI is a technology that works very well in hardware for graphics cards, NVIDIA has the lead, which has led its managers and those at Intel to exchange words.
Normally, we don't see competitions or statements or benchmarks between Intel and NVIDIA, since their hardware markets do not overlap. But both trying to offer the best hardware for Artificial Intelligence have clashed and released statements about their positions in the market.
Intel says NVIDIA has been lucky in the AI market
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has publicly called Nvidia's success in the AI sector something "purely accidental» in an interview hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Gelsinger He regretted that they resigned at the time Larrabee project, which could have led to Intel having the same fate in the market today. Gelsinger further explained that Nvidia's dominance is partly due to the fact that "Intel basically did nothing in this space for 15 years«.
In response to these statements, Bryan Catanzaro, Nvidia's vice president of Applied Deep Learning Research, responded to the claims on his personal Twitter account. Catanzaro believes that Nvidia's dominance came not from luck, but from vision and execution. He concluded that "this is something that Intel was lacking«.
To know the background of Catanzaro, He worked in both companies, and even worked on the aforementioned Larrabee project. in 2007. And it is understandable that he defends NVIDIA, but even Gelsinger affirms that Intel did not bet on its day when the first AI accelerators came out, something that also happened to NVIDIA. Still, it must be kept in mind that no one can predict the future, especially in the technology sector.
