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Intel continued expansion to attack the AI Market

Intel continued expansion to attack the AI Market


Intel is the leading global semiconductor (Intel) although the annual revenue is $60 billion, but with the changing market trends, it will soon enter the bright younger generation in the establishment of 50th anniversary big brother, leadership is gradually challenged in the leading mobile chip market missed opportunities, Intel now turned to attack the artificial intelligence (AI) field. The Losangeles Times reported that Intel (LATimes) in order to improve their own in deep learning (DeepLearning) market fighting force, continue to expand the field of new acquisitions or investments, one of the most popular market when the number of 2016 to $400 million acquisition of NervanaSystems, the Nervana is looking for cooperation chip manufacturer partners, although there are other major players interested in the technology, but Nervana also preferred the industry leader Intel, so the two soon hit it off.
Application in the market quite red deep learning, the concept is derived from the neural network (neuralnetwork) which have existed for decades, after several years of vicissitudes of history, now with the Internet of things (IoT) rise, has huge data from all kinds of sensors, the need for more powerful hardware and software to processing, neural network can thus be a comeback. Deep learning software can be implemented on CPU, but CPU is designed for general-purpose applications, and the efficiency of executing deep learning is limited. In contrast, GPU has a large number of processing core, parallel processing of different processing operations, deep learning application effect is much better than that of CPU, most of the neural network application on the market using NVIDIA GPU, let NVIDIA very influential development in recent years. This open by NVIDIA AI competition, has become an important battleground, science and technology industry Nervana, GPU and NVIDIA to compete, we must design the special chip for the neural network, which also contributed to the main reason for Intel's acquisition of Nervana, Intel will launch at the end of 2017 deep learning chip LakeCrest is training. From the Nervana technology, the two operators will launch related software tools to help developers learn system depth development.
Intel's recent moves frequently, has acquired the development of consumer electronic device with startups vision processor Movidius, Israel's self driving technology company Mobileye and FPGA chip makers such as AItera, and the acquisition of Nervana is to make AI layout more complete, Nervana CEO NaveenRao was entrusted with the task, all affairs in the development of Intel AI. Report directly to Intel CEO BrianKrzanich. Intel seems to have answers, but LinleyGroup founder and senior analyst LinleyGwennap semiconductor industry have pointed out that, judging from past experience, Intel's acquisition strategy may not work, for example, Intel has to strengthen its competitiveness in the mobile chip market, buy Infineon in 2010 (Infineon) wireless chip sector, but eventually because of conflict and technology both sides of corporate culture the differences and other factors, let Intel frustrated. The Intel AI offensive battlefield, if it can not adjust the old big brother attitude, there may still be a repeat of the mobile phone chip market mistakes, so the subsequent development remains to be seen.

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