Intel and Facebook are working together on a new cheaper Artificial Intelligence (AI) chip that will help companies with high workload demands. At CES 2019, Intel announced "Nervana Neural Network Processor for Inference" (NNP-I).
Facebook is also one of Intel's development partners on the NNP-I. Navin Shenoy, Intel Executive Vice President in the Data Centre Group, announced that the NNP-I will go into production this year.
The new "inference" AI chip would help Facebook and others deploy machine learning more efficiently and cheaply. Intel began its AI chip development after acquiring Nervana Systems in 2016.
Intel also announced that with Alibaba, it is developing athlete tracking technology powered by AI that is aimed to be deployed at the Olympic Games 2020 and beyond.