The News: Intel Corp. this week introduced a trio of chips for training and deploying artificial intelligence models that will allow it to step up the competition against Nvidia Corp., the graphics processing unit market leader.
The chips, unveiled at a press event in San Francisco this morning, grew out of Intel’s 2016 acquisitions of two machine learning companies, Nervana Systems and Movidius Ltd. Collectively they represent Intel’s first big reveal for specialized AI chips that expand beyond its mainstream Xeon and Core chip families. Read the full news story on Silicon Angle.