Intel to buy deep-learning startup Nervana Systems for at least $350M
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Re: Intel to buy deep-learning startup Nervana Systems for at least $350M
#2Here are some details about their upcoming chip:
http://www.nextplatform.com/2016/08/08/deep-learning-chip-up...
Summary:
- 28nm
- looks similar to P100 (interposer with HBM)
- 55 teraops/s performance
- custom number format (variable length fixed point?)
- simplified memory architecture (no cache?)
- no info about power consumption
Re: Intel to buy deep-learning startup Nervana Systems for at least $350M
#3@OP: that's Nervana with 'e' ;)
Re: Intel to buy deep-learning startup Nervana Systems for at least $350M
#4Likely a good move for Intel to get in on one of the faster growing areas of computing. Let's the compete with the GPU folks and offer something to the cloud players eventually (a la Tensor Processing Unit). Nice to see the competition.
Also lets Nervana scale and potentially get their Neon deep learning framework out there in the face of bigger players (a la TensorFlow).
All in all it's good to see the competition in this space.
Re: Intel to buy deep-learning startup Nervana Systems for at least $350M
#5@OP: that's Nervana with 'e' ;)
Thank you! Updated
Re: Intel to buy deep-learning startup Nervana Systems for at least $350M
#6Likely a good move for Intel to get in on one of the faster growing areas of computing. Let's the compete with the GPU folks and offer something to the cloud players eventually (a la Tensor Processing Unit). Nice to see the competition. Also lets Nervana scale and potentially get their Neon deep learning framework out there in the face of bigger players (a la TensorFlow). All in all it's good to see the competition i…
Neon has been fast in benchmarks because of hand optimised kernels, but their kernel guy (Scott Gray) recently left to OpenAI. I wonder why
Re: Intel to buy deep-learning startup Nervana Systems for at least $350M
#7Finally it looks like Intel is getting serious about competing with Nvidia GPUs in the nascent deep/machine learning market!
As good as this could be, it would be even better if we also get an open-source software stack that can compete with Nvidia's proprietary CUDA stack, which currently dominates everywhere (except maybe in Google's data centers).
Re: Intel to buy deep-learning startup Nervana Systems for at least $350M
#8Their Neon platform is awesome. I hope it will not be abandoned.
Congratulations!
Re: Intel to buy deep-learning startup Nervana Systems for at least $350M
#9Very exciting that Intel sees a need to compete with NVIDIA here in a way that isn't just more x86. NVIDIA certainly needs the competition. Now can AMD get in on the action? They should be in a pretty good place to compete but so far they seem to have missed the boat, with approximately zero software support.
Re: Intel to buy deep-learning startup Nervana Systems for at least $350M
#10Here are some details about their upcoming chip: http://www.nextplatform.com/2016/08/08/deep-learning-chip-up... Summary: - 28nm - looks similar to P100 (interposer with HBM) - 55 teraops/s performance - custom number format (variable length fixed point?) - simplified memory architecture (no cache?) - no info about power consumption
Wow, really important details here; very interesting. Now imagine this chip, but shrunk to Intel's latest 14nm process. If they make that chip I have no doubt that it will revolutionize the entire field.