How AI Is Shaking Up the Chip Market
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How AI Is Shaking Up the Chip Market

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In less than 12 hours, three different people offered to pay me if I'd spend an hour talking to a stranger on the phone. These unsolicited, extremely specific, high-pressure requests---which arrived about three week ago---underscore the radical changes underway in the enormously lucrative computer chip market, changes driven by the rise of artificial intelligence. Today, Internet giants like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, and China's Baidu are exploring a wide range of chip technologies that can drive AI forward, and the choices they make will shift the fortunes of chipmakers like Intel and nVidia. The first is the training stage, where a company like Google trains the neural network to perform a given task, like recognizing faces in photos or translating from one language to another. Chipmakers designed GPUs to render images for games and other highly graphical applications, but in recent years, companies like Google discovered these chips can also provide an energy-efficient means of juggling the mind-boggling array of calculations required to train a neural network.

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