The empire strikes back: How Intel is stepping up its AI game ZDNet

When you ask Intel how it is doing in the realm of artificial intelligence, you will likely hear a figure saying how 97 percent of all AI workloads run on Xeon hardware. But that number is far from being the full story. In the realm of neural networks, the chip giant has a real competitor in the guise of Nvidia, after Intel has, by its own admission, been "absent" in the area. "It's really not too late ... we're in the first half of the first innings," Barry Davis, Intel general manager of Accelerated Workloads Group, told ZDNet last week. Intel is changing the way it approaches AI, after its old playbook didn't have the best results.