The Wall Street Journal: Intel recruits Facebook in AI battle with Nvidia

The Wall Street Journal: Intel recruits Facebook in AI battle with Nvidia
The Wall Street Journal: Intel recruits Facebook in AI battle with Nvidia

The Wall Street Journal: Intel recruits Facebook in AI battle with Nvidia

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LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. — Intel Corp. on Tuesday said it is working with Facebook Inc. and other firms on a coming chip specially designed for artificial intelligence, as the semiconductor giant moves to capitalize on a fast-growing market and aims a direct shot at rival Nvidia Corp.

Intel

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  on Tuesday said Facebook

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  is providing technical input for a coming chip specially designed for artificial intelligence, as the semiconductor giant moves to capitalize on a fast-growing market and aims a direct shot at rival Nvidia

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 .

Intel’s new chip will be among the first of a new breed of processors designed from the ground up to accelerate the popular AI technique known as deep learning, which enables computers to recognize objects in photos, words in spoken statements, and other features that otherwise would require human judgment.

Called the Nervana Neural Network Processor, the chip is the fruit of Intel’s acquisition last year of startup Nervana Systems. Intel expects to ship the initial version on a limited basis later this year and make it widely available next year through Intel Nervana Cloud, a cloud-computing service, and as an appliance that customers can install in their own data centers.

An expanded version of this report appears on WSJ.com.

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