Intel strives to 'change the tide' on Nvidia-TSMC duo in AI- Nikkei Asian Review

Intel, the world's largest semiconductor company, aims to gain the upper hand in the budding field of artificial intelligence with a new lineup of chip products in 2017, a senior executive said. Vice President Raejeanne B. Skillern's comments came as Intel's main rival in the AI chip market, Nvidia, is working with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. on chip products that can handle massive amounts of video, images and voice recognition tasks. "Nvidia has gotten a very tiny piece of the market right now," Skillern told the Nikkei Asian Review in early December. "We take the competition very seriously. While Intel controls 98% of the global market for data center server chips, Nvidia's graphics-oriented products have become the preferred option for internet titans like Google, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft, along with researchers striving to train computers to recognize complex patterns and objects.