Intel working with Facebook on AI chip coming later this year

San Francisco: Intel Corp said on Monday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that it is working with Facebook Inc to finish a new artificial intelligence chip in the second half of this year. The chips are Intel’s gambit to retain hold of a fast-growing segment of the artificial intelligence computing market but will face competition from similar chips from Nvidia Corp and Amazon.com Inc’s Amazon Web Services unit. Also at the Consumer Electronics Show on Monday, Intel said that Dell Technologies Inc will feature Intel’s next generation of processors in its XPS line of laptops. But Navin Shenoy, Intel’s data center chief, reiterated that the new chips will be available in laptops by the 2019 holiday shopping season and in data centers by early next year.