These "chips" let you game on your PC, navigate a car or improve your daily life with artificial intelligence algorithms. They're the most complex devices manufactured. And it takes the world's most advanced manufacturing technologies and the expertise of thousands of engineers, technicians and architects to create them. A new animated video, "How Intel Makes Chips: Concept to Customer," offers a simple overview of the manufacturing process – from design engineering through mask operations and assembly and testing – to create these tiny but fiendishly complex devices.

What's New: At Hot Chips 2019, Intel revealed new details of upcoming high-performance artificial intelligence (AI) accelerators: Intel Nervana neural network processors, with the NNP-T for training and the NNP-I for inference. Intel engineers also presented technical details on hybrid chip packaging technology, Intel Optane DC persistent memory and chiplet technology for optical I/O. "To get to a future state of'AI everywhere,' we'll need to address the crush of data being generated and ensure enterprises are empowered to make efficient use of their data, processing it where it's collected when it makes sense and making smarter use of their upstream resources. Data centers and the cloud need to have access to performant and scalable general purpose computing and specialized acceleration for complex AI applications. In this future vision of AI everywhere, a holistic approach is needed--from hardware to software to applications."

Intel hosts its 2019 Intel AI Summit on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019, in San Francisco. Tune in to the livestream to hear from Naveen Rao, Intel corporate vice president and general manager of the Intel Artificial Intelligence Products Group, as he shares significant product updates across the Intel artificial intelligence portfolio in addition to Intel's vision for the future of AI hardware and software.

In 2016, people have witnessed the digital and physical worlds continuing to merge as everyday objects, commercial and industrial equipment, and entire cities become smart and connected to the cloud. Analysts expect that by 2020 more than 50 billion devices – wearables, store inventory sensors, autonomous vehicles, medical equipment, city infrastructure and more – will be connected to the internet and each other.1 And people's relationship with technology – how it is used, the experiences it enables and what benefits people derive from it – are beginning to shift dramatically. Not since the transition from analog to digital has there been the potential for transformation of this magnitude: Networks are evolving faster than ever to accommodate the intense bandwidth demands created by the ever-growing number of always-on, connected devices to access, analyze and share data in real time. In 2016, Intel has been working with policymakers, the industry and industrial leaders to focus on four areas that will help spur innovation and enable more rapid transformation, leading to greater and new opportunities for industries and consumers: artificial intelligence, 5G networks, automated driving and virtual reality/merged reality.

This is how humans operate. We try something, we judge the result and modify our behavior. What some considered to be science fiction only a few years ago, AI is edging closer to reality as decades of research -- combined with advances in compute power, memory, storage, network connectivity, sensors and the software that unites them all -- is poised to enable new classes of intelligent predictive analytics. These innovations will bring benefits to multiple industries, and to society as a whole in the way we lead our everyday lives. Al is going to change our lives for the better as machines learn, reason, act and adapt -- transforming industries by amplifying human capabilities, automating tedious or dangerous tasks, and solving some of our most challenging societal problems.

This is how humans operate. We try something, we judge the result and modify our behavior. What some considered to be science fiction only a few years ago, AI is edging closer to reality as decades of research -- combined with advances in compute power, memory, storage, network connectivity, sensors and the software that unites them all -- is poised to enable new classes of intelligent predictive analytics. These innovations will bring benefits to multiple industries, and to society as a whole in the way we lead our everyday lives. Al is going to change our lives for the better as machines learn, reason, act and adapt -- transforming industries by amplifying human capabilities, automating tedious or dangerous tasks, and solving some of our most challenging societal problems.