Intel To Launch Lake Crest, Its First Neural Network Processor, In 2019

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bit_user

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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44873802/what-is-tf-bfloat16-truncated-16-bit-floating-point?

In other words, high-range and low-precision. Good for ML. For everything else, mind the epsilon!
 

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Basically, it will be leveraged for analytic processing and AI assistance based on that via fuzzy logic.

Personally, it's a "spyware accelerator" used for background tasks that aren't explicitly yours. Call it "Shadow Computing" were the analytics is based on greater data collection processing capability and data resolution.

Whatever CPU will have this built-in, I want it turned off.
 

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Dude, you already have a neural network accelerator in your PC. It's called a GPU.

So far, the specialized chips & engines are only for cloud and embedded use.

It's hard to see a good case for putting embedded neural processing engines in a desktop CPU. To be worthwhile, they require a substantial amount of die area (i.e. added cost). Furthermore, they have a lot of functional overlap with GPUs, yet they don't offer such a great performance advantage over GPUs that would justify the added cost for mass-market products.
 
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