Intel's latest promise: Our first AI ASIC chips will arrive in 2019

AI Dev Con Intel announced a range of machine learning software tools and hinted at new chips on Wednesday, including its first commercial AI ASIC, the NNP-L1000, launching in 2019. Rao was CEO and co-founder of Nervana, a deep learning startup that was acquired by Intel in 2016. AI hype cycles have led to multiple booms and busts, Rao explained. At the moment, its popularity is rising rapidly and its greedily slurping all the data and compute available. The AI revolution is really a computing revolution.