Intel integrates Nervana technology into product roadmap ZDNet

Diane Bryant, Intel executive vice president and general manager of the Data Center Group, stands with Nervana co-founder Naveen Rao. Within just two months acquiring Nervana, Intel is integrating the deep learning startup's technology into its product roadmap, the company announced Thursday. The new Nervana platform will be the industry's most comprehensive portfolio for AI, the company contends, built for speed and ease of use. "We expect the Intel Nervana platform to produce breakthrough performance and dramatic reductions in the time to train complex neural networks," Diane Bryant, Intel executive vice president and general manager of the Data Center Group, said in a statement. "Before the end of the decade, Intel will deliver a 100-fold increase in performance that will turbocharge the pace of innovation in the emerging deep learning space."