Facebook has partnered with Intel on the creation of the hardware company's first AI chip. The neural network processor (NNP) chip is likely Intel's attempt to catch up with rival Nvidia, which has so far led the emerging market in the "deep learning" chips which are central to the development of AI. According to a report from Bloomberg, Nvidia will be using its new chip, called Tesla P100, for deep learning applications such as image recognition and machine translation.
Facebook has partnered with Intel on the creation of the hardware company's first AI chip. The neural network processor (NNP) chip is likely Intel's attempt to catch up with rival Nvidia, which has so far led the emerging market in the "deep learning" chips which are central to the development of AI. The first generation of Intel's new chip will be made available to a limited number of partners, including Facebook, which will then contribute feedback to the development of the second version, which is due to be released next year.