EETimes - What the AI Chip Market is All About

Right now, the AI chip market is all about deep learning. Deep learning (DL) is the most successful of machine learning paradigms at making AI applications useful in the real world. The AI chip market today is all about accelerating deep learning (DL) – the acceleration is needed during training and during inferencing. The AI chip market has exploded with players: for a recent research report we counted some 80 startups globally with $10.5 billion spend by investors, competing with some 34 established players. Clearly this is unsustainable, but we need to dissect this market to better understand why it is the way it is now, how it is likely to change, and what it all means.