TechBits, Feb 03, 2020

Intel Corp. has decided to end development work on its Nervana neural network processors and will instead focus its efforts on the artificial intelligence chip architecture it acquired when it bought out Habana Labs Ltd. for $2 billion in December. The news was revealed Friday by Moor Insights & Strategy analyst Karl Freund in an article in Forbes. He said Intel told him it had decided to end its work on both the Nervana NNP-T training chips and the Nervana NNP-I inference chips, though it said it will still deliver on customer commitments for the latter. Habana has developed two AI chips of its own, namely the Habana Gaudi and the Habana Goya (pictured). The former is a highly specialized neural network training chip, while the latter is a processor used for the inference that uses neural networks in active deployments.