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back to article Intel is doing so well at AI acceleration, it's dropped $2bn on another neural-net chip upstart (third time's a charm)

Intel has snapped up AI accelerator chip designer Habana Labs for a hefty $2bn to bolster its efforts in bringing Chipzilla-flavored machine-learning tech to cloud platforms and big biz. The microprocessor giant is hell-bent on getting internet giants and enterprises to use its neural-network math coprocessors, rather than …

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  1. NetBlackOps

    When a piece of AI hardware can only be used with Intel's hardware, it moves down several steps on my preferences list. So take that into consideration, Intel.

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  2. iron Silver badge
    Paris Hilton

    > Despite having been within the beast's belly for more than three years, Nervana has hit a series of delays

    Lol because being Intel has helped get their 10nm process off to such aflying start they're devastating the competition.

    Even Paris knows Intel's chips are late.

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  3. a pressbutton

    yay

    Another set of chips that make neural net training faster.

    Please do not confuse this with Intelligence. This is just a faster way of getting the answer you programmed in with the training set.

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