Intel and AMD — rivals who've spent decades battling for x86 supremacy — just did something unexpected: they teamed up. The two chip giants unveiled Advanced Compute Extensions (ACE), a new spec designed to make CPUs dramatically better at running AI models without needing a GPU. ACE targets matrix multiplication, the bedrock of AI inference, with dedicated hardware that delivers up to 16x more operations per instruction than the current AVX10 approach. It's not for training...