Intel Offers Broad Portfolio Spanning Data
Center to IoT Devices and Software to Make AI Foundational to
Business and Society
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
- Intel announces AI strategy to drive
breakthrough performance, democratize access and maximize societal
benefits.
- Intel introduces industry’s most
comprehensive data center compute portfolio for AI: the new Intel®
Nervana™ platform.
- Intel aims to deliver up to 100x
reduction in the time to train a deep learning model over the next
three years compared to GPU solutions.
- Intel reinforces commitment to an open
AI ecosystem through an array of developer tools built for ease of
use and cross-compatibility, laying the foundation for greater
innovation.
Intel Corporation today announced a range of new products,
technologies and investments from the edge to the data center to
help expand and accelerate the growth of artificial intelligence
(AI). Intel sees AI transforming the way businesses operate and how
people engage with the world. Intel is assembling the broadest set
of technology options to drive AI capabilities in everything from
smart factories and drones to sports, fraud detection and
autonomous cars.
At an industry gathering led by Intel CEO Brian Krzanich, Intel
shared how both the promise and complexities of AI require an
extensive set of leading technologies to choose from and an
ecosystem that can scale beyond early adopters. As algorithms
become complex and required data sets grow, Krzanich said Intel has
the assets and know-how required to drive this computing
transformation.
In a blog Krzanich said: “Intel is uniquely capable of enabling
and accelerating the promise of AI. Intel is committed to AI and is
making major investments in technology and developer resources to
advance AI for business and society.”
Intel’s Robust AI Platform
Intel announced plans to usher in the industry’s most
comprehensive portfolio for AI – the Intel® Nervana™ platform.
Built for speed and ease of use, the Intel Nervana portfolio is the
foundation for highly optimized AI solutions, enabling more data
professionals to solve the world’s biggest challenges on industry
standard technology.
Today, Intel powers 97 percent of data center servers running AI
workloads and offers the most flexible, yet performance-optimized,
portfolio of solutions. This includes Intel® Xeon® processors
and Intel® Xeon Phi™ processors to more workload-optimized
accelerators, including FPGAs (field-programmable gate
arrays) and the technology innovations acquired from
Nervana.
Intel also provided details of where the breakthrough technology
from Nervana will be integrated into the product roadmap. Intel
will test first silicon (code-named “Lake Crest”) in the first half
of 2017 and will make it available to key customers later in the
year. In addition, Intel announced a new product (code-named
“Knights Crest”) on the roadmap that tightly integrates
best-in-class Intel Xeon processors with the technology from
Nervana. Lake Crest is optimized specifically for neural networks
to deliver the highest performance for deep learning and offers
unprecedented compute density with a high-bandwidth
interconnect.
“We expect the Intel Nervana platform to produce breakthrough
performance and dramatic reductions in the time to train complex
neural networks,” said Diane Bryant, executive vice president and
general manager of the Data Center Group at Intel. “Before the end
of the decade, Intel will deliver a 100-fold increase in
performance that will turbocharge the pace of innovation in the
emerging deep learning space.”
Bryant also announced that Intel expects the next generation of
Intel Xeon Phi processors (code-named “Knights Mill”) will deliver
up to 4x better performance1 than the previous generation for deep
learning and will be available in 2017. In addition, Intel
announced it is shipping a preliminary version of the next
generation of Intel Xeon processors (code-named “Skylake”) to
select cloud service providers. With AVX-512, an integrated
acceleration advancement, these Intel Xeon processors will
significantly boost the performance of inference for machine
learning workloads. Additional capabilities and configurations will
be available when the platform family launches in mid-2017 to meet
the full breadth of customer segments and requirements.
Enabling AI Everywhere and Cloud Alliance with
Google*
Aside from silicon, Intel highlighted other AI assets, including
Intel Saffron Technology™, a leading solution for customers looking
for business insights. The Saffron Technology platform leverages
memory-based reasoning techniques and transparent analysis of
heterogeneous data. This technology is also particularly
well-suited to small devices, making intelligent local analytics
possible across IoT and helping advance state-of the-art
collaborative AI.
To simplify deployment everywhere, Intel also delivers common,
intelligent APIs that extend across Intel’s distributed portfolio
of processors from edge to cloud, as well as embedded technologies
such as Intel® RealSense™ cameras and Movidius* vision processing
units (VPUs).
Intel and Google announced a strategic alliance to help
enterprise IT deliver an open, flexible and secure multi-cloud
infrastructure for their businesses. The collaboration
includes technology integrations focused on Kubernetes*
(containers), machine learning, security and IoT.
To further AI research and strategy, Intel announced the
formation of the Intel Nervana AI board, which will feature leading
industry and academic thought leaders. Intel announced four
founding members: Yoshua Bengio (University of Montreal), Bruno
Olshausen (UC Berkeley), Jan Rabaey (UC Berkeley) and Ron Dror
(Stanford University).
Additionally, Intel is working to make AI truly accessible. To
help accomplish this, Intel has introduced the Intel Nervana AI
Academy for broad developer access to training and tools. Intel
also introduced the Intel Nervana Graph Compiler to accelerate deep
learning frameworks on Intel silicon.
In conjunction with the AI Academy, Intel announced a
partnership with global leading education provider Coursera* to
provide a series of AI online courses to the academic community.
Intel also launched a Kaggle Competition (coming in January)
jointly with Mobile ODT* where the academic community can put their
AI skills to the test to solve real-world socioeconomic problems,
such as early detection for cervical cancer in developing countries
through the use of AI for soft tissue imaging.
“Intel can offer crucial technologies to drive the AI
revolution, but ultimately we must work together as an industry –
and as a society – to achieve the ultimate potential of AI,” said
Doug Fisher, senior vice president and general manager of the
Software and Services Group at Intel.
With the addition of the new edge and data center products, as
well as the enablement programs, Intel has the full complement of
technologies and ecosystem reach required to deliver the scale and
promise of AI for everyone.
AI for the Betterment of Society
Lastly, Intel showcased some of the initiatives the company is
investing in and partnering with to help maximize the positive
impact of AI on the world. They include:
- Intel is committing $25 million to the
Broad Institute* to drive high-performance computing for genomics
analytics. Through a five-year collaboration, researchers and
software engineers at the Intel-Broad Center for Genomic Data
Engineering will build, optimize and widely share new tools and
infrastructure that will help scientists integrate and process
genomic data. The project aims to optimize best practices in
hardware and software for genome analytics to make it possible to
access and use research data sets that reside on private, public
and hybrid clouds.
- Intel is a founding partner of Hack
Harassment*, a cooperative effort with the mission of reducing the
prevalence and severity of online harassment. The initiative is
evaluating AI technology as a tool in this effort and is working to
develop an intelligent algorithm to detect and deter online
harassment. Over time, this capability will be released as an open
source API that can be used in a variety of applications.
- Intel is also a key partner of the
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children* (NCMEC), a
nonprofit whose mission is to help find missing children, reduce
child sexual exploitation and prevent child victimization. Intel is
providing AI technology and advising the center with the goal of
accelerating the critical work of NCMEC’s analysts to respond to
reports of child sexual exploitation.
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results, visit www.intel.com/benchmarks.
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are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the United States and other
countries.
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