IBM and Intel will partner to bring Gaudi 3 accelerators to IBM Cloud as soon as 2025

IBM and Intel recently announced they are working together to offer Intel Gaudi 3 accelerators for hybrid and on-premise environments through IBM Cloud, starting in early 2025. As part of the collaboration, IBM's AI and data platform, watsonx, will also support the Intel Gaudi 3 AI accelerators. With this partnership, both companies aim to respond to the rising demand for AI computing solutions by bringing affordable, secure, enterprise-grade AI solutions to expand the current landscape and provide customers with a wider range of choices.

One of the most common roadblocks to successful generative AI deployments in the enterprise is the steep cost of securing sufficient computing resources to support the demands of AI-powered applications. Moreover, there is also the concern that lower-cost solutions should not represent a sacrifice in availability, performance, security, or innovation. Recognizing these issues, IBM and Intel are determined to lower the total cost of ownership for leveraging and scaling AI.

Intel has been working hard to place its Gaudi chips as a worthy contender to NVIDIA's, and this partnership with IBM has presented itself as the perfect opportunity to showcase the capabilities of Gaudi 3 chips integrated with 5th-generation Xeon CPUs to support enterprise AI workloads in the cloud and on data centers. Similarly, by enabling Gaudi 3 support on the watsonx platform, customers will experience the capabilities of the Intel chips in AI inferencing workloads. Gaudi 3 support also means customers will enjoy additional resources to scale their workloads, thus optimizing the price/performance ratio.