Gadi Singer interview - How Intel designs processors in the AI era - VentureBeat

Intel is the world's biggest maker of processors for computers, but it hasn't been the fastest when it comes to capitalizing on the artificial intelligence computing explosion. Rival Nvidia and other AI processor startups have jumped into the market, and Intel has been playing catchup. But the big company has been moving fast. It acquired AI chip design firm Nervana in 2016 for $350 million, and Intel recently announced that its Xeon CPUs generated $1 billion in revenue in 2017 for use in AI applications. Intel believes that the overall market for AI chips will reach between $8 billion and $10 billion in revenue by 2022. And the company is focused on designing AI chips from the ground up, according to Gadi Singer, vice president and general manager of AI architecture at Intel. Singer, his boss Naveen Rao, and chip architect Jim Keller have been hitting the road lately to show that Intel isn't asleep at the switch when it comes to the hot AI chip design trends.