Intel Retools Product Roadmap with AI Silicon

At Intel's recent AI Day, the chipmaker previewed a series of future products that it intends to use to unseat GPUs as the de facto standard for machine learning. The one-day event was Intel's most assertive pronouncement of its intentions to become a major player in the artificial intelligence market. Perhaps the most surprising element of the roadmap is the productization of the Nervana Engine, the machine learning chip that Nervana engineers were working on prior to Intel's acquisition of the company earlier this year. Given Intel's devotion to Xeon Phi, we at TOP500 News were more than a little skeptical that the company would ever commercialize the Nervana designs. But that is apparently the plan.