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Intel, While Pivoting to Artificial Intelligence, Tries to Protect Lead

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   In particular, the rise of artificial intelligence is creating demand
   for new computing hardware tailored to handle vast amounts of unruly
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   Instead, specialized chips are delivering better performance on
   artificial intelligence programs that identify images, recognize speech
   and translate languages.

   Intel is hurrying to catch the A.I. wave. On Tuesday, to deal with the
   changing competitive landscape, the Silicon Valley giant is presenting
   its newest data-center strategy at an event in New York, addressing its
   A.I. plans and its mainstream data-center business. The company has
   billed the event as its “biggest data-center launch in a decade.”
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   processors. But its graphics-processing chips, used by gamers in
   turbocharged personal computers, have proved well suited for A.I.
   tasks. Nvidia’s data-center business is taking off, with the company’s
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   Stacy Rasgon, a semiconductor analyst at Bernstein Research, said,
   “They’re late to artificial intelligence.”
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   chief executive, wrote that it was “uniquely capable of enabling and
   accelerating the promise of A.I.”

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   intelligence start-up, for more than $400 million last year. In March,
   Intel created an A.I. group, headed by Naveen G. Rao, a founder and
   former chief executive of Nervana.
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   Lake Crest is tailored for A.I. programs called neural networks, which
   learn specific tasks by analyzing huge amounts of data. Feed millions
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   The outlying, specialized chips are known in the industry as
   accelerators. They can do certain things, like data-driven A.I. tasks,
   faster than a central processor. Accelerators include graphics
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   of the New York edition with the headline: Intel Protects Its Lead
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