Intel: Our upcoming AI chip will be cheaper, run cooler than Nvidia, AMD options

Crescent Island is an air-cooled chip that uses LPDDR5 memory.

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Kechichian said Intel was assessing whether a version of the chip could potentially be sold in China in compliance with US export controls. Nvidia and AMD’s AI chip sales to the Asian nation have been blocked by trade tensions between Washington and Beijing.

“There are tiers of [the chip] that might be OK there… and we’ll confirm that over time: clearly there is demand for that particular price point in that particular market,” Kechichian said.

Is there an inference chip market in China at all now? My impression is that thanks to the trade war, the CCP is pushing Chinese companies towards homegrown chip companies (e.g. Deepseek running on Huawei inference). The latter can be subsidized and/or coerced to have price points far lower than any Western company can stomach (e.g. Deepseek v4 is ~1% the price of Claude Opus for ~50% the intelligence).