Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan has confirmed that the company continues to actively collaborate with NVIDIA on new products. He made the announcement after a ceremony at Carnegie Mellon University, where NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang received an honorary doctorate for his contributions to artificial intelligence and accelerated computing.
In a post on X, the Intel chief noted that both companies are working on new and interesting products. This indirectly backs up rumors that Intel is developing chips with integrated NVIDIA GeForce RTX graphics.
One of the first fruits of this partnership could be an Intel platform codenamed Serpent Lake. The chips are expected to combine Intel x86 processors with NVIDIA graphics IP blocks. A similar approach was used earlier with the Kaby Lake G project, where Intel partnered with AMD.
Beyond consumer solutions, the companies are also expanding cooperation in the server segment. Intel has been producing special versions of Xeon for major cloud platforms for years, and now NVIDIA may also use Intel server processors in its AI systems alongside its own Grace and Vera architectures.
Among the upcoming platforms are the Xeon Clearwater Forest server processors with 288 energy-efficient Darkmont cores on the 18A process node, as well as future Xeon Diamond Rapids with support for NVLink technology. The latter will speed up communication between processors and NVIDIA AI accelerators.
Also possible are custom versions of Intel processors for NVIDIA SuperPOD systems, designed to house hundreds of graphics accelerators in large AI clusters. The companies have not yet disclosed release timelines for joint products, but Intel and NVIDIA are clearly preparing closer integration of their technologies in the coming years.