Intel Customizing Granite Rapids Server Chips for Nvidia GPUs
Intel is now customizing its latest Xeon 6 server chips for use with Nvidia’s GPUs that dominate the AI landscape. The chipmaker’s new Xeon 6 chips, also called Granite Rapids, have been customized and validated specifically for server boxes with Nvidia’s latest and upcoming GPUs.
“Nvidia is the leader on the GPU side…so we’re partnering closely with them to make sure that people deploying MGX or HGX-based systems, we have a full suite of CPUs that have been qualified together with Nvidia for those systems,” said Ronak Singhal, senior fellow at Intel.
Amid financial struggles, Intel is repositioning its business around x86 CPUs. One way to sell more Granite Rapids chips is to follow the coattails of Nvidia’s red-hot GPUs.
“This is really just the beginning of some of the collaboration we’re doing with Nvidia over the course of the next year. You’ll see more from us as we talk about ways that we’ve optimized some of these SKUs very specifically for this use case,” Singhal said.
