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Can you recall when you used to play arcade Personal Computer games before you advanced consoles such as Xbox? When playing simple games, the Central Processing Unit (AMD or Intel) was sufficient, but when playing sophisticated games such as and Assasin’s Creed and Tomb Raider, you would require a specific graphics card or GPU). These are known as specialized chips that boost your experience with computer graphics. Why is it necessary that we discuss about chips? Well, a new advanced chip is about to be released in the market.
Artificial Intelligence chips are already in use on phones such as Honor Play, Galaxy Note 8, and iPhone XR. These entire phone models have a specific Artificial Intelligence chip that does the heavy lifting during functionalities such as Machine Language-based voice assistant, Artificial Intelligence-powered camera and many more. By doing this, the Artificial Intelligence chip reduces the workload of the main processor and prevents the cell phone from being slow. However, Artificial Intelligence chips in cell-phones are just a small advancement.
Technology companies such as Intel, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Facebook have all began investing in specialized infrastructure that will enhance Artificial Intelligence-based roles, be it an AI chip that you can purchase and plugin or a cloud-based Central Processing Unit that can be used for neural networks and Machine Learning. The most recent in the market and news among these are the Intel Nervana that was made by Intel. Facebook also contributed significantly to the development of Intel Nervana. Other major developments include Amazon’s AWS Inferential, Microsoft’s project Brainwave, and Google Cloud TPU.
Majority of these projects are still in a Beta stage. Therefore, this year could be the most probable year when the projects will be completed. Implementation of these projects will make Artificial Intelligence projects a reality because most of the predictions will be made in real-time.
