Intel Gaudi + GPU Max — Intel's AI Accelerators

Why it matters

Intel is third player. Understanding shapes hardware landscape.

The architecture

Gaudi 3: 128GB HBM3E. 24 Ethernet ports for scale-out.

Ponte Vecchio: general GPU (Aurora supercomputer).

How it works end to end

Habana SynapseAI: Gaudi software.

OneAPI: Intel's unified programming across accelerators.

Networking: Ethernet-based avoids proprietary interconnect lock-in.