The rise of AI marks an end to CPU dominated computing

HPC blog Just as Intel, the king of CPUs and the very bloodstream of computing announced that it is ending its Intel Development Forum (IDF) annual event, this week in San Jose, NVIDIA, the king of GPUs and the fuel of Artificial Intelligence is holding its biggest GPU Technology Conference (GTC) annual event yet. With something north of 95 per cent market share in laptops, desktops, and servers, Intel-the-company is far from even looking weak. Indeed, it is systematically adding to its strengths with strong indigenous high-density processing CPUs of its own, acquisition of budding AI chip vendors, pushing on storage-class memory, and advanced interconnects. But a revolution is nevertheless afoot. The end of CPU-dominated computing is upon us.