Perhaps nothing is better fodder for an argument in IT, especially when competitors are locking horns over undiscovered country. Over at the Nvidia Blog, Ian Buck is taking umbrage at Intel's recent performance claims around machine learning, saying that they are out-of-date. According to Buck, Intel is comparing its new Intel Xeon Phi processor against outdated GPUs using Nvidia's Maxwell architecture. Nvidia has since introduced products based on the Pascal architecture, which helped propel the company to some nice profits in their most recent quarter. Few fields are moving faster right now than deep learning," writes Buck. "Today's neural networks are 6x deeper and more powerful than just a few years ago.