Machine learning and AR boom tipped by Deloitte tech experts Business Weekly Technology News Business news

The impact of machine learning applications – from machine vision to voice recognition – will be massively enhanced via the deployment of 800,000 machine learning centric chips in data centres this year – roughly quadruple the volume in 2016. And one billion smartphone users will create augmented reality (AR) content in 2018 globally, with half of UK smartphone users doing so. The findings stand out in Deloitte UK's TMT Predictions 2018 report, from its technology-focused practice, published today. A surge in deployment of FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays) and ASICs (application-specific integrated circuits) - will be a core driver in the use of machine learning. FPGAs and ASICs will represent between a quarter and a third of all machine learning chips deployed this year.