Intel to ship inference AI processor later this year
Announced at CES 2019, the Intel Nervana is designed to accelerate inference – the classification of data to “infer” a result – for companies with high workload demands. Inference is one of the main techniques used to develop and deploy deep learning based technologies, the other being training.
Designed to run pre-trained machine-learning algorithms more efficiently than competing devices, the Nervana will go into production later this year the company says. The processor is built on a 10-nanometer Intel process, and will include Ice Lake cores to handle general operations as well as neural network acceleration.
Further, the company announced, Facebook is one of its development partners on the project. The company had initially announced a partnership with the social media giant last year.
The company also announced that it is developing a similar neural network processor designed for neural network training. It too is expected to be available later this year.
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