Alongside the debut of the Xeon 6900 series, Intel today officially launched the Gaudi 3 machine learning accelerator it introduced in April. The latter chip is positioned as an alternative to Nvidia Corp.’s market-leading graphics processing units. Intel says the Gaudi 3 can perform inference 30% faster than Nvidia’s previous-generation H200 GPU.

Intel announced the on-time launch of its high-performance Xen 6 ‘Granite Rapids’ 6900P-series models today. Five new models, spanning from 72 cores up to 128 cores, finally exceeded the core counts of AMD’s existing EPYC models for the first time since 2017.

Intel has officially launched the Intel Xeon 6 with Performance-cores (P-cores) and Gaudi 3 AI accelerators, further solidifying its commitment to delivering

The company has removed the word 'Scalable' for its newest Xeons, which are now available in both P-Core and E-Core flavors.