During his Vision 2024 keynote address, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger unveiled the new Gaudi 3 AI accelerator and a new family of Xeon 6 processors, both of which reportedly offer generational performance and efficiency advantages over their predecessors and compete favorably with rivals. All told, Intel is claiming that its Gaudi 3 AI accelerator can deliver an average 50% improvement in inferencing performance with an approximate 40% improvement in power efficiency versus Nvidia’s H100. Intel is also claiming that it does so at a fraction of the cost.