Couple more data points: Intel recently bought Nervana Systems, a startup focused on creating a neuromorphic ASIC for deep learning, which had been financed by

Couple 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.