News Intel Stops Nervana Development, Shifts Focus to Habana

[Admin]

Intel is stopping development of the Nervana NNP-I and NNP-T chips for deep leaning. The company will fulfill its commitments to existing customers, but will shift focus to Habana.

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[JayNor]

Habana's 100GbE interconnects are less intimidating than Intel's NNP-T proprietary cabling.

I'd guess Intel will want to substitute their own 100GbE chips for the Mellanox chips, right?

I was hoping to buy an NNP-I chip in m.2 format just to play with. Too bad.

 

[derekullo]

Spending $350M on a company that produces chips on a fabrication twice as large as Nvidia (10 series was 14nm) in the hope that it would beat Nvidia seems like a bad idea.

I can't understand why you would name a company Gaudi which sounds an awful lot like Gaudy.

Nervana smells like vaporware

Half of my heart is in Habana, ooh-na-na

I'll see myself out ...

 

[bit_user]

Spending $350M on a company that produces chips on a fabrication twice as large as Nvidia (10 series was 14nm) in the hope that it would beat Nvidia seems like a bad idea.

It wasn't a bad idea, at the time.

For one thing, in the first half of 2016, Nvidia was also at 28 nm. They didn't get Tensor Cores until 2017 (for training) or 2018 (for inferencing). And process node is something that Intel probably assumed would change, when Nervana got their designs ported over to Intel's manufacturing node (whoops!).

I can't understand why you would name a company Gaudi which sounds an awful lot like Gaudy.

Not the company - that's a chip. The naming scheme seems to be Spanish artists, which is about as good as any other scheme I've seen & a somewhat refreshing departure from place names (and perhaps an interesting counterpoint to Nvidia's Scientist-based naming scheme).

The customers of this chip are data scientists, cloud operators, and other professional markets. So, they probably don't even care how the average person hears it.

To be honest, I like Gaudi better than Goya. I can't hear Goya without thinking of this:

Spoiler: "Saturn Devouring His Son" by Francisco Goya

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_Devouring_His_Son​

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and then maybe this:

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goya_Foods​

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Nervana smells like vaporware

They have shipping products. I'd guess the current generation probably got screwed by Intel's manufacturing woes.

Half of my heart is in Habana, ooh-na-na

Ha, nice.