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Likely 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 p
by mgreg 10y ago
Likely 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.
- dharma1 10y agoNeon has been fast in benchmarks because of hand optimised kernels, but their kernel guy (Scott Gray) recently left to OpenAI. I wonder why
- scott-gray 10y agoI was aware of this deal before leaving. I made out pretty well with my vested shares but was more interested in working on the cutting edge of research than in continuing on with pure hardware optimization and design. I wish Nervana/Intel the best and I'm looking forward to seeing their hardware come to market. I'm mainly working on TensorFlow now, but would love to see Nervana finish the graph backend they've been working on.
- ericjang 10y agoLove your work. We welcome open source contributions to TensorFlow :)