Intel’s CEO praised the speed of the xAI artificial intelligence team during a visit to Elon Musk’s data center

Pat GelsingerCEO of Intel, after visiting the Memphis data center Elon Muskpraised the xAI team. In a post on the X social network, he said that the xAI team uses Intel Xenon processors to process the main artificial intelligence server. Intel’s Xenon processor is responsible for processing the entire cluster of 100,000 GPUs, and according to him, it is incredible that something like this has been built in such a short time.

Intel, which is struggling with various problems, is also behind in the development of artificial intelligence; Especially since the development of Gaudi 3 artificial intelligence processor of blue team is involved in many problems.

Elon Musk has so far spent about 10 billion dollars on artificial intelligence training hardware, so that his team was able to launch a supercluster of 100,000 H200 Blackwell GPUs in 19 days; A process that, according to Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, usually takes four years.

While Musk’s AI processors are provided by Nvidia, he still needs a powerful processor to process the xAI AI cluster. Pat Gelsinger’s post confirms that the xAI team has chosen Intel Xenon processors to process their AI cluster. Intel announced its latest 128-core flagship processor, Granite Rapids, in September 2024, but Glassinger would not confirm which model will be used by Musk’s team.

Intel CEO also from Michael Dellfounder and CEO of Dell and the current supplier of xAI main servers, appreciated. Elon Musk has previously purchased systems from Supermicro, but it is unclear whether the Dell servers have replaced Supermicro’s systems. The use of Dell servers has fueled rumors that Supermicro’s legal troubles have caused xAI to switch suppliers; But it may not be like this.

Gelsinger’s visit to the Memphis data center also came as Musk plans to increase the number of GPUs to 200,000 units soon, and even raised plans to increase that number to 300,000 units. Although this increase seems to be in the next stage of development.

All additional GPUs will continue to be Nvidia AI processors and Blackwell GPUs may also be used; So Glassinger probably won’t sell Intel’s Gaudi 3 processors to Musk.

Such a large amount of GPU purchases means that xAI requires a large number of processors; So Glassinger may be trying to get closer to Musk and sell more Xenon chips.

However, even if Musk doesn’t buy Intel chips and Blue Team can only sell its data center CPUs, it will help Intel improve its financial position.