Intel Acquires Nirvana

Intel Corporation is moving during the coming period to focus on artificial intelligence technology in the company's products, the company announced today the purchase of specialized in artificial intelligence technology Nervana development.
The technology of artificial intelligence a technology that many companies seek to develop further in the recent period, which has already started to spread in a lot of devices and products as well as social networking, which is the main reason for the direction of Intel's focus on this technology as well.

Intel is expected to begin supporting devices Nervana Engine with the beginning of 2017, to develop specialized devices in artificial intelligence technology, as Intel also aims to get support Nervana experts to improve the artificial intelligence technology performance in Xeon processor and Xeon Phi.

Projections indicate that this new step taken by Intel to buy Nervana that, targeting rival NVIDIA in particular, where NVIDIA has already begun in the development of artificial intelligence technology in a self-driving car systems as well as versions of its superior graphics card.

So the next period could see a great competition between Intel and NVIDIA Corporation in the development of new technology higher performance based on artificial intelligence even more.