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Who Will Go into Volume Production First for AI ASICs?

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Artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning have generated lot of excitement over the past few years. Many semiconductor startups have emerged to build chipsets optimized for AI. They are tackling compute, communication, and memory-related problems specific to AI algorithm accelerations and building highly optimized architectures that promise low power and high performance. Nervana was perhaps the first company to build a chipset specifically for AI, which got started in 2014. Nervana wanted to sell cloud services based on its chipsets and bypass the application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) altogether.