With market projections showing that artificial and cognitive intelligence technologies could become a $46 billion industry by 2020, Intel remains devoted to AI. Planning to ship the Intel Nervana Neural Network Processor (NNP) before year’s end, the next generation of machine learning may not be all that far away.
Intel, which has several generations of Nervana in the pipeline, has set an ambitious goal to reach 100 times greater AI compute abilities before 2020 but may even exceed that goal if Nervana is a large success. The chipmaker has identified four different application areas – health care, social media, automotive and meteorology – where neural network processing could prove to be highly beneficial.
