By TOI Tech Desk
Publication Date: 2026-02-05 18:55:00
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan sent a ‘we are coming’ kinda message to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang this week. Lip-Bu Tan announced that Intel plans to build graphics processing units (GPUs), the category of chip popularized by Nvidia. “I just hired the chief GPU architect, and he’s very good. I’m very delighted he joined me,” Tan said, claiming that it took some persuading. Demers was at Qualcomm for more than 13 years. Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are the chips, made by the likes of Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), power large language models and have seen demand skyrocket as companies race to build out artificial intelligence infrastructure and data centers.At the recent Cisco AI Summit, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan announced that the company will start producing graphics processing units (GPUs). These are more specialized processors, compared to the CPUs Intel traditionally produces, and are used for gaming and tasks like training artificial intelligence models. While Nvidia per se didn’t invent the GPU, these specific kind of AI chips have played a large role in the company’s success. Intel has traditionally produced CPUs, processors with a limited number of cores, making them best suited for serial computing tasks. GPUs, such as those produced by Nvidia, have thousands of smaller cores and are used for parallel computing tasks, such as AI and high-performance computing.In an interview with Reuters on the sidelines of the Summit, Tan said the GPU effort will target data…
