Intel FPGAs Accelerate AI with Microsoft Project Brainwave - IT Peer Network

I'm excited about today's announcement from Microsoft that they have chosen Intel's Stratix 10 FPGA to power their new deep learning platform codenamed Project Brainwave. In this post I want to clarify why real-time AI is so critical, explain how Intel FPGAs accelerate the performance of AI applications and share how this project is a natural extension of a decades-long collaboration between Intel and Microsoft. From its Bing search engine to its Azure cloud, Microsoft processes streams of data on an enormous scale, and much of that processing has to happen instantaneously. This is the case with the company's new deep learning platform, code-named Project Brainwave, which is designed for real-time artificial intelligence (AI). Whether you're talking about search queries, video analysis, sensor streams, or any other type of data, real-time AI means that the system applies the AI algorithm as fast as it receives data, with ultra-low latency.