Questions America Wants Answered: Volition Intel's Deep Neural Processor Move Also Late? (Intc; Nvda)

From EE Times:

Intel disclosed plans to liberate belatedly adjacent twelvemonth its outset neural network processor intended for commercial use, exactly approximately analysts wonder if it volition last likewise belatedly for Intel to brand upward the world lost inwards AI to Nvidia's Volta GPU architecture.

The Intel chip, codenamed Spring Crest, volition offering 3 to 4 times the preparation functioning of Intel's first-generation neural network processor, Lake Crest.

Spring Crest — or the Intel Nervana NNP-L1000 every bit it is formally known — was the almost pregnant of a publish of innovations described yesteryear Naveen Rao, vice president as well as full general director of Intel's AI Products Group, Tuesday (May 23) at Intel's first-ever AI developer termination here.

Kevin Krewell, a top dog analyst at Tirias Research, said that fifty-fifty amongst 3 to 4 times the functioning of Lake Crest, Spring Crest would all the same conduct maintain alone a slight functioning payoff over Nvidia's V100 information midpoint GPUs, which are already available.

"It may conduct maintain until 2020 or 2021 for Intel to potentially deliver a superior neural cyberspace processor," Krewell said.

"Intel is belatedly to the political party as well as shooting at a moving target," said Jim McGregor, founder as well as top dog analyst at Tirias. "You tin bet that the Nvidia solution volition last good beyond that signal yesteryear that time. It kinda sounds similar Intel as well as GPUs all over again."

Rao as well as other Intel executives at the AI termination sought to portray Nvidia every bit a one-trick pony, repeatedly extolling the virtues of Intel's portfolio of chips for AI — including neural cyberspace processors, Xeon processors as well as Stratix FPGAs — every bit a comprehensive suite of solutions for the chop-chop evolving AI landscape....MORE