Qualcomm just approached Intel about a potential takeover, according to the Wall Street Journal. Intel has been reeling from costly setbacks and slow AI progress, having recently announced $10 billion in cost cuts and over 15,000 layoffs. The megadeal would upend the chip market, though severe antitrust scrutiny makes completion far from guaranteed.
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger says AI won't stay locked in cloud data centers for long, arguing that economics, latency, and privacy will push workloads to the edge. The company is set to launch its Meteor Lake PC processors with dedicated AI silicon, leveraging its 80% x86 PC market share to convince developers to run AI locally rather than pay for costly cloud compute.
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger just told investors the company plans to build AI into every platform and product it makes. The rollout begins later this year with Meteor Lake, its first consumer chip sporting an onboard neural processor. Why it matters: As Nvidia dominates the AI cloud, Intel is betting that latency, bandwidth, and cost limits will force AI inferencing straight onto client devices and the edge.
