The advantage of a large company with large capital reserves - is the ability to overcome any difficulties without shocks, putting business on the brink of extinction. In the case of trying to find new areas of Intel's development can also speak about the possibility of receiving the necessary assets and by their acquisition of technology. This week, the processor giant announced the purchase of Nervana Systems - young California-based company, which specialized in the development of artificial intelligence systems "tailored" to the needs of specific customers.
Proprietary software environment used Neon specialized libraries and Python programming language for the creation of training systems. Health, agriculture, finance, energy, online services, and automotive - that's where founded in 2014 Nervana Systems sought to find a use for their talents. In principle, as representatives of the company, after the purchase of its assets by Intel will be able to save not only the staff and activities, but also the brand. The transaction amount was not disclosed. Most likely, Nervana help Intel optimize systems based on Xeon, and Xeon the Phi processors to increase their "learning". This is the area where Intel has to make a competition with its NVIDIA accelerators computing Tesla family.
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