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Top Intel executive: Our AI efforts have been dogged by ‘crippling execution delays’

Leaked blog post shows vice-president claimed chip giant would need ‘increased perseverance’ to catch up with Nvidia

Pat Gelsinger: Intel’s chief executive has been talking up the role of AI in the firm’s future over the last year. Picture: Marc O'Sullivan

A senior Intel executive privately said the company’s attempts to develop artificial intelligence (AI) have “suffered from fragmentation, crippling execution delays and a lack of singular focus and perseverance” over the last ten years, the Business Post can reveal.

A leaked blog post showed that Srinivas Lingam, corporate vice-president of Intel’s AI acceleration office, also said that the chip giant would need “increased perseverance” on AI to become even a “respectable number two” to Nvidia ...