A look at Intel's big-picture AI on 7nm

Intel's third quarter earnings report comes out on Oct. 24, but some industry experts have set their sights on years down the line to when investments in artificial intelligence could begin to pay off. "In three-plus years, the real competition will be in AI and machine learning-related systems," said Jack Gold, an analyst at J. Gold Associates, in an email to FierceElectronics. "That means if you're a semi company, it's where you need to have viable products going forward." Some analysts have focused heavily on Intel's competition with AMD and Nvidia for performance in the graphics space, often on a PC or workstation. AMD is growing much faster than Intel, but still has less than one-tenth the revenues.