Intel Lays Out Vision for Future of AI Applications
Intel today laid out an ambitious effort to infuse artificial intelligence (AI) into every application by leveraging an expanding portfolio of processors intended to be deployed across an extended enterprise.
Announced at an AI DevCon event, the core of that effort consists of traditional Xeon-class processors, field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), Intel Movidius platforms and compute sticks for processing deep learning and computer vision algorithms, extensions to the Intel Nervana Neural Network Processors (NNPs). Those extensions include a smaller floating-point instruction set that should make it simpler to share calculations more rapidly across processors, says Naveen Rao, corporate vice president and general manager of the Artificial Intelligence Products Group at Intel.