AMD Enters Deep Learning Market With Instinct Accelerators, Platforms And Software Stacks

Artificial intelligence, machine and deep learning are some of the hottest areas in all of high-tech today. We've had a few generations of AI over the last 50 years, but in 2010, IBM kicked off the latest cycle with Watson, using brute-force, Big Data techniques to win jeopardy. The University of Toronto in 2012 pioneered Imagenet using deep learning to identify pictures. NVIDIA then began to drive the GPU-accelerated training technology of deep neural nets, and in the course of that, huge service providers opened up and announced initiatives beginning with Microsoft, Google, Apple, Samsung, and then Amazon. Chinese giants Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent are of course, involved.