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Intel and Nvidia Fighting for Deep Learning Dominance
- loser777 10y agoRelated previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12300868 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12300868 The real fight probably won't start until something like Knight's Mill (http://www.anandtech.com/show/10575/intel-announces-knights-mill-a-xeon-phi-for-deep-learning http://www.anandtech.com/show/10575/intel-announces-knights-...) is launched. Even then, it seems that unless Intel provides a drop-in cuDNN-like library for deep learning the big frameworks will have a tough time supporting Intel hardware quickly/efficiently.
- amelius 10y agoMeanwhile, google already has an ASIC.
- ratsbane 10y agoAnd there's this - Neural Compute Stick: http://www.movidius.com/news/movidius-announces-deep-learning-accelerator-and-fathom-software-framework http://www.movidius.com/news/movidius-announces-deep-learnin...
- vonnik 10y agoCouple more data points: Intel recently bought Nervana Systems, a startup focused on creating a neuromorphic ASIC for deep learning, which had been financed by DFJ. Nervana wrote a fast open-source library called neon for GPUs. I expect the Nervana team will be involved in this fight. Right now, Intel largely owns the data centers while NVIDIA owns academic hardware acceleration. It's faster. Obviously those are generalizations. NVIDIA's DGX-1 is a way to leap into enterprise, while the Xeon Phi is Intel trying to compete on speed and distributed neural net training. Interesting times.
- cs702 10y agoA more apt headline would be "Intel trying to dislodge Nvidia from its current dominance in deep learning." It would be great for Nvidia to get real competition.
- frozenport 10y agoIntel has 82% of the x86 market, it would be great for Intel to get real competition.
- appleflaxen 10y agoWhy isn't AMD able to compete here, given their GPU history (acquisition of ATI)? It seems like they would be a natural fit for the market.
- frozenport 10y agoMisplaced focus on integer performance, is among the reasons.
- _0ffh 10y agoInteger is fine for most NN jobs, IIRC.