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Intel Unveils Next-generation AI Solutions with the Launch of Xeon 6 and Gaudi 3
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Intel launches Xeon 6 with Performance-cores (P-cores), doubling the performance for AI and HPC workloads. New Gaudi 3 AI accelerators offer up to 20 percent more throughput and 2x price/performance vs H100 for inference of LLaMa 2 70B1. SANTA CLARA, Calif., September 24, 2024 – As AI continues to revolutionize industries, enterprises are […]
Altera Accelerating FPGA-based Innovations from Edge to Cloud with Scalable Portfolio
New programmable hardware, software, and development tools are optimized to drive developer productivity and intelligent compute across a broad range of use cases. What’s New: Altera, an Intel® Company, today unveiled an array of FPGA hardware, software and development tools that make its programmable solutions more accessible across a broader range of use cases and […]
“Identifying and Mitigating Bias in AI,” a Presentation from Intel
Nikita Tiwari, AI Enabling Engineer for OEM PC Experiences in the Client Computing Group at Intel, presents the “Identifying and Mitigating Bias in AI” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit. From autonomous driving to immersive shopping, and from enhanced video collaboration to graphic design, AI is placing a… “Identifying and Mitigating Bias in […]
“Intel’s Approach to Operationalizing AI in the Manufacturing Sector,” a Presentation from Intel
Tara Thimmanaik, AI Systems and Solutions Architect at Intel, presents the “Intel’s Approach to Operationalizing AI in the Manufacturing Sector,” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit. AI at the edge is powering a revolution in industrial IoT, from real-time processing and analytics that drive greater efficiency and learning… “Intel’s Approach to Operationalizing AI […]
“Transforming Enterprise Intelligence: The Power of Computer Vision and Gen AI at the Edge with OpenVINO,” a Presentation from Intel
Leila Sabeti, Americas AI Technical Sales Lead at Intel, presents the “Transforming Enterprise Intelligence: The Power of Computer Vision and Gen AI at the Edge with OpenVINO” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit. In this talk, Sabeti focuses on the transformative impact of AI at the edge, highlighting… “Transforming Enterprise Intelligence: The Power […]
Computex: Intel Accelerates AI Everywhere, Redefines Power, Performance and Affordability
With Intel Xeon 6 processors, Gaudi accelerators and Lunar Lake architecture, Intel delivers the best of AI across cloud, networking, client and edge solutions. TAIPEI, Taiwan, June 4, 2024 – Today at Computex, Intel unveiled cutting-edge technologies and architectures poised to dramatically accelerate the AI ecosystem – from the data center, cloud and network to […]
Intel AI Platforms Accelerate Microsoft Phi-3 GenAI Models
Intel, in collaboration with Microsoft, enables support for several Phi-3 models across its data center platforms, AI PCs and edge solutions. What’s New: Intel has validated and optimized its AI product portfolio across client, edge and data center for several of Microsoft’s Phi-3 family of open models. The Phi-3 family of small, open models can run on […]
More than 500 AI Models Run Optimized on Intel Core Ultra Processors
Intel builds the PC industry’s most robust AI PC toolchain and presents an AI software foundation that developers can trust. What’s New: Today, Intel announced it surpassed 500 AI models running optimized on new Intel® Core™ Ultra processors – the industry’s premier AI PC processor available in the market today, featuring new AI experiences, immersive graphics […]
Intel Builds World’s Largest Neuromorphic System to Enable More Sustainable AI
Hala Point, the industry’s first 1.15 billion neuron neuromorphic system, builds a path toward more efficient and scalable AI. What’s New: Today, Intel announced that it has built the world’s largest neuromorphic system. Code-named Hala Point, this large-scale neuromorphic system, initially deployed at Sandia National Laboratories, utilizes Intel’s Loihi 2 processor, aims at supporting research for future brain-inspired artificial […]
Axelera Uses oneAPI Construction Kit to Rapidly Enable Open Standards Programming for the Metis AIPU
AI applications have an endless hunger for computational power. Currently, increasing the sizes of the models and cranking up the number of parameters has not quite yet reached the point of diminishing returns and thus the ever growing models still yield better performance than their predecessors. At the same time, new areas for application of […]
Intel Breaks Down Proprietary Walls to Bring Choice to Enterprise GenAI Market
Intel Gaudi 3 AI accelerator brings global enterprises choice for generative AI, building on the performance and scalability of its Gaudi 2 predecessor. What’s New: At Intel Vision, Intel introduces the Intel® Gaudi® 3 AI accelerator, which delivers 4x AI compute for BF16, 1.5x increase in memory bandwidth, and 2x networking bandwidth for massive system […]
Intel and Altera Announce Edge and FPGA Offerings for AI at Embedded World
New edge-optimized processors and FPGAs bring AI everywhere across edge computing markets including retail, industrial and healthcare. What’s New: Today at Embedded World, Intel and Altera, an Intel Company, announced new edge-optimized processors, FPGAs and programmable market-ready solutions extending powerful AI capabilities into edge computing. These products will power AI-enabled edge devices applicable to industries across […]
Intel Announces New Program for AI PC Software Developers and Hardware Vendors
Intel expands its AI PC Acceleration Program to better equip software developers and independent hardware vendors. What’s New: Intel Corporation today announced the creation of two new artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives as part of the AI PC Acceleration Program: the AI PC Developer Program and the addition of independent hardware vendors to the program. These are […]
Intel Launches Altera, Its New Standalone FPGA Company
Altera prioritizes customers with end-to-end FPGAs, accessible AI, software and supply resilience. What’s New: Today, Intel announced the official launch of Altera, its new standalone FPGA company. During the FPGA Vision Webcast, Chief Executive Officer Sandra Rivera and Chief Operating Officer Shannon Poulin unveiled their strategy to secure leadership across a $55 billion-plus market opportunity; […]
Intel Core Ultra Extends AI PCs to the Enterprise with New Intel vPro Platform
New vPro platform delivers unmatched productivity, security, manageability and stability for businesses of all sizes. What’s New: Today at MWC 2024, Intel extends the benefits of the AI PC to commercial customers with the new Intel vPro® platform. The enhanced features of Intel® Core™ Ultra processors with available built-in Intel® Arc™ GPUs, and Intel® Core™ […]
Intel Announces New Edge Platform for Scaling AI Applications
The edge-native software platform simplifies development, deployment and management of edge AI applications. What’s New: At MWC 2024, Intel announced its new Edge Platform, a modular, open software platform enabling enterprises to develop, deploy, run, secure, and manage edge and AI applications at scale with cloud-like simplicity. Together, these capabilities will accelerate time-to-scale deployment for […]
Ecosystem Collaboration Drives New AMBA Specification for Chiplets
This blog post was originally published at Arm’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Arm. AMBA is being extended to the chiplets market with the new CHI C2C specification. As Arm’s EVP and Chief Architect Richard Grisenthwaite said in this blog, Arm is collaborating across the ecosystem on standards to enable a […]
Intel Drives ‘AI Everywhere’ into Automotive Market at CES
Intel announces agreement to acquire Silicon Mobility SAS for advanced EV energy management and new AI-enhanced family of software-defined vehicle SoCs. News Highlights Acquisition of Silicon Mobility SAS to bring AI efficiencies to electric vehicle (EV) energy management, subject to necessary approvals. New Intel AI-enhanced software-defined vehicle (SDV) SoCs will enable in-vehicle AI such as GenAI […]
CES 2024: Intel Delivers New High-Level Compute Solutions in Mobile, Desktop and Edge
New Intel Core HX and U-series mobile processors bring robust Intel Core platform to new enthusiast and mainstream mobile systems, alongside expanded desktop stack reaching the mainstream and edge. News Highlights Intel announces the Intel® Core™ 14th Gen mobile processor family, led by the launch of the new flagship Intel® Core™ i9-14900HX featuring 24 cores […]
Intel and DigitalBridge Launch Articul8, an Enterprise Generative AI Company
As an independent company supported by industry investment, Articul8 will be able to accelerate its go-to-market strategy and scale its product offerings for the broader GenAI ecosystem. SANTA CLARA, Calif., and BOCA RATON, Fla., Jan. 3, 2024 – Intel Corp. (Nasdaq: INTC) and DigitalBridge Group, Inc. (NYSE: DBRG; “DigitalBridge”), a global investment firm, today announced […]
Intel Accelerates AI Everywhere with Launch of Powerful Next-gen Products
Intel Core Ultra and 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors expand Intel’s unmatched AI portfolio, bringing AI to all. NEW YORK, Dec. 14, 2023 – At its “AI Everywhere” launch in New York City today, Intel introduced an unmatched portfolio of AI products to enable customers’ AI solutions everywhere — across the data center, cloud, network, […]
Intel Joins the MLCommons AI Safety Working Group
Intel joins group of leading AI industry and academia experts to establish standard AI safety benchmarks that will guide responsible AI development. What’s New: Today, Intel announced it is joining the new MLCommons AI Safety (AIS) working group alongside artificial intelligence experts from industry and academia. As a founding member, Intel will contribute its expertise and […]
CEVA Joins Intel Foundry Services Accelerator IP Alliance Program to Empower Cutting-edge SoCs
IFS Accelerator IP Alliance ensures support for mutual customers leveraging CEVA’s industry leading wireless communications and sensing AI IP and IFS’ advanced manufacturing capabilities to deliver leading-edge silicon performance for the most demanding applications ROCKVILLE, MD., October 17, 2023 – CEVA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEVA), the leading licensor of wireless connectivity and smart sensing technologies which have […]
“Responsible AI: Tools and Frameworks for Developing AI Solutions,” a Presentation from Intel
Mrinal Karvir, Senior Cloud Software Engineering Manager at Intel, presents the “Responsible AI: Tools and Frameworks for Developing AI Solutions” tutorial at the May 2023 Embedded Vision Summit. Over 90% of businesses using AI say trustworthy and explainable AI is critical to business, according to Morning Consult’s IBM Global AI Adoption Index 2021. If not […]
Driving PyTorch* and AI Everywhere – Intel Joins the PyTorch Foundation
Intel is honored to join the PyTorch* Foundation as a Premier member, and we look forward to engaging with other industry leaders to collaborate on the open source PyTorch framework and ecosystem. We believe that PyTorch holds a pivotal place accelerating AI—it allows for fast application development to promote experimentation and innovation. Joining the PyTorch […]
Intel Accelerates AI Development with Reference Kits
Optimized AI reference kits help developers and data scientists innovate faster. What’s New: Intel now offers a set of 34 open source AI reference kits to the community, the result of a yearslong collaboration with Accenture, enabling developers and data scientists to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) faster and more easily. Each kit includes model code, training data, instructions for […]
“A New, Open-standards-based, Open-source Programming Model for All Accelerators,” a Presentation from Codeplay Software
Charles Macfarlane, Chief Business Officer at Codeplay Software, presents the “New, Open-standards-based, Open-source Programming Model for All Accelerators” tutorial at the May 2023 Embedded Vision Summit. As demand for AI grows, developers are attempting to squeeze more and more performance from accelerators. Ideally, developers would choose the accelerators best suited to their applications. Unfortunately, today […]
Focus on Software First with the oneAPI Construction Kit
Bring the open and standards-based SYCL™ programming model to your custom accelerator with the oneAPI Construction Kit. June 5, 2023 – Edinburgh – Today, Codeplay® announces the latest extension of the oneAPI ecosystem with an open source project that allows code written in SYCL to run on custom architectures for HPC and AI. The oneAPI […]
Intel Foundry and Arm Announce Multigeneration Collaboration on Leading-Edge SoC Design
Collaboration to bring chip designers a powerful combination of Arm core and Intel angstrom-era process technology advancements. SANTA CLARA, Calif., and CAMBRIDGE, U.K., April 12, 2023 – Intel Foundry Services (IFS) and Arm today announced a multigeneration agreement to enable chip designers to build low-power compute system-on-chips (SoCs) on the Intel 18A process. The collaboration […]
Now Available: Intel oneAPI 2023.1 Tools
Delivering new performance and code-migration capabilities The just-released Intel® oneAPI 2023.1 tools augment the latest Intel® architecture features with high-bandwidth memory analysis, photorealistic ray tracing and path guiding, and extended CUDA-to-SYCL code migration support. Additionally, they continue to support the latest update of Codeplay’s oneAPI plugins for NVIDIA and AMD that make it easier to […]
Learn About the Intel Agilex FPGA Portfolio Expansion
Expanding the Intel® Agilex™ FPGA Offering to Enable New Capabilities and a Broad Set of Applications January 10, 2023 – With the introduction of Intel® Agilex™ FPGAs in 2019, Intel delivered the industry’s highest performance, flexible and industry-leading power efficiency programmable logic devices., This product family has become prominent in the FPGA industry and our […]
Magical OpenVINO Integration with TensorFlow
This video was originally published at Intel’s YouTube channel. It is reprinted here with the permission of Intel. In this episode, Ragesh and Steph talk about OpenVINO™ Integration with Tensorflow which is used for speeding up inferencing of a TensorFlow based real-time application at the edge. Ragesh pulls and runs a docker image on his […]
Zeblok Computational Demonstration of Autonomous Multi-cloud to Edge ML DevOps
Mouli Narayanan, Founder and CEO of Zeblok Computational, demonstrates the company’s latest edge AI and vision technologies and products in Intel’s booth at the 2022 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Narayanan demonstrates a series of AI-MicroCloud workflows geared for enterprise architects, ML modelers, and ML Ops to improve automation in curating AI assets and disseminating optimized […]
Vy Corporation Demonstration of Faster Convergence Using Understandable AI
John Freyhof, CEO of Vy Corporation, demonstrates the company’s latest edge AI and vision technologies and products in Intel’s booth at the 2022 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Freyof demonstrates the solution to a real-world problem of detecting a sub-surface mine in a very low signal-to-noise environment, and how the same approach can be applied to […]
oneAPI Expands to a Community Forum for Open Accelerated Computing
This blog post was originally published at Intel’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Intel. Efforts will advance the oneAPI specification and open source projects to multiple architectures and vendors Since its launch in November 2019, oneAPI for open accelerated computing has made great strides; I’ve seen the specification grow into new […]
Intel Launches 13th Gen Intel Core Processor Family Alongside New Intel Unison Solution
13th Gen Intel Core desktop processors deliver the world’s best gaming experience and unmatched overclocking capabilities. SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 27, 2022 – Today at Intel Innovation, Intel revealed the 13th Gen Intel® Core™ processor family, led by the 13th Gen Intel® Core™ i9-13900K – the world’s fastest desktop processor1. The new 13th Gen Intel Core family includes six […]
Intel Equips Developers to Solve Challenges of Today and Tomorrow
Intel introduces 13th Gen Intel Core processors, expanded Intel Developer Cloud, Intel Geti computer vision platform and more choice in graphics to kick off two-day Intel Innovation event. NEWS HIGHLIGHTS The Intel Developer Cloud will make new and future hardware platforms available for pre-launch development and testing, such as the 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors […]
Thundersoft Demonstration of Its Turbo X EB4 Edge AI Box
Paul Peng, Senior Director of Sales and Business Development at Thundersoft, demonstrates the company’s latest edge AI and vision technologies and products in Intel’s booth at the 2022 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Peng demonstrates the company’s Turbo X EB4 Edge AI Box. Thundersoft’s EB4 Edge AI Box is an edge computing device that can provide […]
Arm Supports FP8: A New 8-bit Floating-point Interchange Format for Neural Network Processing
This blog post was originally published at Arm’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Arm. Enabling secure and ubiquitous Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a key priority for the Arm architecture. The potential for AI and machine learning (ML) is clear, with new use cases and benefits emerging almost daily – but alongside […]
First Socketed SoC Processors for Edge Innovation
12th Gen Intel Core SoC processors for IoT Edge enhance graphics, AI performance and flexibility for vertical markets. What’s New: Intel has announced the availability of its 12th Gen Intel® Core™ SoC processors for IoT Edge. Representing a new lineup of purpose-built edge products optimized for Internet of Things (IoT) applications, this first-of-its-kind socketed system-on-chip (SoC) delivers […]
“Introduction to Computer Vision with Convolutional Neural Networks,” a Presentation from Intel
Mohammad Haghighat, Senior AI Software Product Manager at Intel, presents the “Introduction to Computer Vision with Convolutional Neural Networks” tutorial at the May 2022 Embedded Vision Summit. This presentation covers the basics of computer vision using convolutional neural networks. Haghighat begins by introducing some important conventional computer vision techniques and then transitions to explaining the […]
“Are Neuromorphic Vision Technologies Ready for Commercial Use?,” An Embedded Vision Summit Expert Panel Discussion
Sally Ward-Foxton, European Correspondent for EE Times, moderates the “Are Neuromorphic Vision Technologies Ready for Commercial Use?” Expert Panel at the May 2022 Embedded Vision Summit. Other panelists include Garrick Orchard, Research Scientist at Intel Labs, James Marshall, Chief Scientific Officer at Opteran, Ryad Benosman, Professor at the University of Pittsburgh and Adjunct Professor at […]
Stewart Christie on Learning AI
This video was originally published at Intel’s YouTube channel. It is reprinted here with the permission of Intel. In this episode, Stephanie Essin interviews Stewart Christie. He is an AI and IoT Evangelist at Intel who creates online developer courses (which you can go and take for free right now!). Outside of this, he also […]
“Optimization Techniques with Intel’s OpenVINO to Enhance Performance on Your Existing Hardware,” a Presentation from Intel
Nico Galoppo, Principal Engineer (substituting for Ansley Dunn, Product Marketing Manager), and Ryan Loney, Technical Product Manager, both of Intel, present the “Optimization Techniques with Intel’s OpenVINO to Enhance Performance on Your Existing Hardware” tutorial at the May 2022 Embedded Vision Summit. Whether you’re using TensorFlow, PyTorch or another framework, Galoppo and Loney show you […]
“Intel Video AI Box—Converging AI, Media and Computing in a Compact and Open Platform,” a Presentation from Intel
Richard Chuang, Principal AI Engineer at Intel, presents the “Intel Video AI Box—Converging AI, Media and Computing in a Compact and Open Platform” tutorial at the May 2022 Embedded Vision Summit. As a system integrator, solution provider or AI developer, you need to run your AI applications efficiently at the edge with sufficient throughput. Does […]
Intel to Acquire Codeplay Software
Intel has long believed that innovation thrives in an open ecosystem, enables choice, fosters trust, and is equally accessible to all. The oneAPI project reflects and embodies this commitment to an open, vibrant, and active ecosystem, featuring an open specification, open source reference implementations, Technical Advisory Boards, and worldwide oneAPI Centers of Excellence. Since its […]
Free Webinar Explores How to Accelerate TensorFlow Models on Intel Compute Devices Using Only 2 Lines of Code
On August 25, 2022 at 9 am PT (noon ET), Kumar Vishwesh, Technical Product Manager, and Ragesh Hajela, Senior AI Engineer, both of Intel, will present the free hour webinar “Accelerating TensorFlow Models on Intel Compute Devices Using Only 2 Lines of Code,” organized by the Edge AI and Vision Alliance. Here’s the description, from […]
Intel® oneAPI 2022.2 is Available
I am pleased to announce the latest Intel® oneAPI tools release (2022.2). This updates oneAPI 2022, which I described previously. The oneAPI initiative, and its open specification, are focused on enabling an open, multiarchitecture world with strong support for software developers—a world of open choice without sacrificing performance or functionality. These oneAPI tools are based on […]
12th Gen Intel Core HX Processors Launch as World’s Best Mobile Workstation Platform
New HX processors are the most powerful 12th Gen Intel Core mobile processors yet. What’s New: Today at Intel Vision 2022, Intel announced seven new mobile processers to the 12th Gen Intel® Core™ mobile family. The 12th Gen Intel® Core™ HX processors utilize desktop-caliber silicon in a mobile package – to deliver high levels of performance […]
Intel Announces New Cloud-to-Edge Technologies to Solve Challenges of Today and Tomorrow
At Intel Vision 2022, the company showcases how education, finance, manufacturing, medicine, transportation and defense industries are transformed through Intel silicon, software and services. NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Argonne National Laboratories, Blue White Robotics, Bosch, Dell Technologies, Federated Wireless, Lenovo, and Nourish + Bloom Market are among the customers and partners highlighting how Intel technology helps fuel […]
Intel’s Habana Labs Launches Second-Generation AI Processors for Training and Inferencing
Habana Gaudi2 processor demonstrates two-times throughput over Nvidia’s A100 GPU. What’s New: Today at Intel Vision, Intel announced that Habana Labs, its data center team focused on AI deep learning processor technologies, launched its second-generation deep learning processors for training and inference: Habana® Gaudi®2 and Habana® Greco™. These new processors address an industry gap by providing customers with high-performance, high-efficiency […]
Real-time Medical Imaging Using OpenVINO
Welcome back to Edge Innovation Series for Developers! This time around, Steph and Ragesh explore a new use case around medical imaging for kidney CT scans and an AI healthcare solution powered with OpenVINO™: the GE Healthcare Clinical Care Suite. They also touch on the OpenVINO™ Post-Training Optimization Tool, AutoQ (an automated mixed-precision quantization technique), […]
Intel Looks for Growth
This market research report was originally published at Yole Développement’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Yole Développement. The current semiconductor growth trend does not resemble those that came before. Taking stock of the past cycles, at Yole Développement (Yole) we see a common theme: a certain application finds its place in […]
Live Object Detection Demo Using OpenVINO
Welcome to the first episode of Intel’s Edge Innovation Series for Developers! Meet your hosts, Stephanie Essin and Ragesh Hajela. They are two techies going on a developer discovery journey together, uncovering how to use Intel® developer resources and tools (like OpenVINO™) to speed up development, tinker with cool demos, and show you what is […]
Deci Boosts Computer Vision and NLP Models’ Performance at MLPerf
Deci’s submissions deliver breakthrough accuracy & throughput performance across CV and NLP models on Intel’s CPUs Tel Aviv, Israel, April 6, 2022 – Deci, the deep learning company harnessing Artificial Intelligence (AI) to build AI, announced its results for both Computer Vision (CV) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) inference models that were submitted to the […]
How Google DeepMind Turns AI Research into Application
This blog post was originally published at Intel’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Intel. Founded just over a decade ago (making it one of the oldest artificial intelligence firms) DeepMind cut its teeth teaching machines to master early video games—not so machines could displace humans in the arcades, but because they […]
How Intel is Advancing Human and AI Collaboration
This blog post was originally published at Intel’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Intel. In writing about the world-renowned guests on the Intel on AI podcast, I’ve mostly covered innovators outside of our company. In this blog, however, I’m pleased to be highlighting the work happening right here at Intel. In […]
Intel Advances AI Inferencing for Developers
OpenVINO Toolkit offers major upgrade to accelerate AI inferencing performance with ease. What’s New: Since OpenVINO™ launched in 2018, Intel has enabled hundreds of thousands of developers to dramatically accelerate AI inferencing performance, starting at the edge and extending to the enterprise and the client. Today, ahead of MWC Barcelona 2022, the company launched a new version of […]
Intel Partners with Esperanto Technologies to Advance Massively Parallel RISC-V-based AI Acceleration Solutions
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., February 7, 2022 – Esperanto Technologies™, the leading developer of high-performance, energy-efficient artificial intelligence (AI) inference accelerators based on the RISC-V instruction set, today announced that the company is entering a strategic partnership with Intel to advance its massively parallel RISC-V-based AI acceleration solutions. As part of the partnership, Esperanto Technologies plans to […]
Facing Tough Ethical Questions in AI
This blog post was originally published at Intel’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Intel. Chance are you know “the trolley problem”—a famous thought experiment wherein a person must choose between switching the direction of an out-of-control train, thereby selecting whether one or many people die. On its face, the answer seems […]
AI and the Future of Work
This blog post was originally published at Intel’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Intel. Are robots coming for your job? Well, maybe. In a recent Intel on AI episode, Intel’s Sandra Rivera and Abigail Hing Wen sat down to talk about how artificial intelligence (AI) will impact the future of work. […]
Intel Empowers Developers with oneAPI 2022 Toolkits
What’s New: Intel today released oneAPI 2022 toolkits. Newly enhanced toolkits expand cross-architecture features to provide developers greater utility and architectural choice to accelerate computing. “I am impressed by the breadth of more than 900 technical improvements that the oneAPI software engineering team has done to accelerate development time and performance for critical application workloads across Intel’s […]
ADLINK Launches COM-HPC Client Type and COM Express Type 6 Modules with 12th Gen Intel Core Processors
Breakthrough Intel® Core™ technology with ADLINK Computer-on-Modules allow for hybrid architecture performance and a wide variety of deployment scenarios with superior performance Summary: Advanced hybrid architecture features up to six Performance-cores (P-cores) that enhance single-threaded throughput for IoT workloads and up to eight Efficient-cores (E-cores) for background task management and multitasking Integrated Intel Iris Xe […]
12th Gen Intel Core Processor for IoT Announced
New IoT-focused 12th Gen Intel Core processors offer increased core count and performance to retail, manufacturing, healthcare and digital safety customers. What’s New: Today at CES 2022, Intel launched 12th Gen Intel® Core™ processors (code-named Alder Lake S-series and H-series), the first family of processors enhanced for the edge to feature performance hybrid architecture that combines […]
CES: Intel Engineers Fastest Mobile Processor Ever with 12th Gen Intel Core Mobile
Twenty-eight new 12th Gen Intel Core mobile and 22 desktop processors drive powerful gaming and creator-focused laptops and desktops, enterprise-ready systems and IoT applications. NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Intel announces the 12th Gen Intel® Core™ family of mobile processors led by the launch of new H-series mobile processors featuring the flagship Intel® Core™ i9-12900HK – the fastest […]
CES 2022: Intel Achieves Major Milestones across Automotive, PCs and Graphics
Mobileye expands major automaker relationships; Intel delivers fastest mobile processor, ships Alchemist GPUs. News Highlights Mobileye announces the new EyeQ® Ultra system-on-chip for autonomous vehicles and expanded relationships with major automakers, including Ford, Volkswagen Group and Geely’s ZEEKR brand. Intel launches the 12th Gen Intel® Core™ i9-12900HK – the world’s best gaming laptop platform1 – […]
New Mobileye EyeQ Ultra will Enable Consumer AVs
Single-package design will deliver industry’s leanest, most performance-power efficient SoC for fully autonomous vehicles. NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Mobileye introduces EyeQ® Ultra™ – a single package AV-on-chip super-computer that is purpose-built for end-to-end autonomous driving. Proven Mobileye EyeQ® architecture underpins EyeQ Ultra, maximizing performance and efficiency at 176 TOPS (tera operations per second). First silicon for the […]
Intel Demonstration of Accelerated Edge Intelligence Solution Development with the Edge Software Hub
Chen Su, Product Marketing Engineer at Intel, demonstrates the company’s latest edge AI and vision technologies and products at the 2021 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Su demonstrates how to accelerate edge intelligence solution development with the Intel Edge Software Hub. The demonstration describes the importance and challenges of connecting devices at the edge, and how […]
Intel Demonstration of DevCloud for the Edge
Monique Jones, Technical Product Manager at Intel, demonstrates the company’s latest edge AI and vision technologies and products at the 2021 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Jones demonstrates how to run edge applications in minutes using Intel DevCloud for the Edge, a remote development environment accessible in your web browser. Jones shows how to can access […]
Intel Demonstration of Write Once, Deploy Anywhere with OpenVINO
Raymond Lo, OpenVINO Software Evangelist at Intel, demonstrates the company’s latest edge AI and vision technologies and products at the 2021 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Lo demonstrates how you can write once and deploy anywhere with OpenVINO. The AI ecosystem is fragmented; many solutions require specialized hardware or specific frameworks, libraries, APIs or tools that […]
How Can AI Help the Developing World?
This blog post was originally published at Intel’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Intel. According to World Bank, there are roughly 750 million people in extreme poverty, those who barely survive on $1.90 USD a day or less. While this fact is staggering, and even shameful given the abundance of developed […]
Intel Unveils 12th Gen Intel Core, Launches World’s Best Gaming Processor, i9-12900K
12th Gen Intel Core Family will include 60 processors and more than 500 designs, leading with enthusiast desktop. NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Intel launches the first products in the 12th Gen Intel® Core™ family, including Intel Core i9-12900K, the world’s best gaming processor1; preorders start today with availability starting Nov. 4. New performance hybrid architecture delivers leaps […]
Intel Innovation Spotlights New Products, Technology and Tools for Developers
Alibaba, Argonne, AT&T, Google Cloud, Microsoft, SiPearl and others showcase power of open ecosystem to create world-changing tech. NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Announcing a unified Developer Zone, new oneAPI 2022 toolkits and new oneAPI Centers of Excellence designed to better enable developers to access reference designs, toolkits and other assets across AI, client, cloud, 5G/edge and gaming […]
“Using Vision Systems to Enable Dynamic Workflows in Manufacturing,” an Interview with Stanley Black & Decker
Paul Turner, Vice President for Industry 4.0 Applications & Analytics at Stanley Black & Decker, talks with Laila Partridge, Managing Director at STANLEY+Techstars Accelerator, for the “Using Vision Systems to Enable Dynamic Workflows in Manufacturing” interview at the May 2021 Embedded Vision Summit. Enabling dynamic manufacturing workflows from the supply chain to production and customer […]
The Oral History of AI
This blog post was originally published at Intel’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Intel. We can’t listen to Newton walk us through the early days of physics, or Darwin chatting about the origins of his “Origins of Species” work. However, we can hear about the early years of artificial intelligence (AI) […]
How to Develop Deep Learning Applications Using the Intel Distribution of OpenVINO Toolkit
This introductory video describes how you can accelerate AI workloads for computer vision, audio, speech, language, and recommendation systems using the Intel Distribution of OpenVINO toolkit. Watch this video to learn more about the self-paced video training series offered by Intel to help you advance your deep learning skills. The training series will take you […]
“The Fearless AI Challenge: Can You Quickly Deploy AI Inference to Billions of Devices?,” a Presentation from Intel
Raymond Lo, OpenVINO Edge AI Software Evangelist at Intel, presents the “Fearless AI Challenge: Can You Quickly Deploy AI Inference to Billions of Devices?” tutorial at the May 2021 Embedded Vision Summit. Have you ever been inspired by a new AI research paper and tried to replicate it using open source code, only to end […]
“Three Lessons Learned in Building a Successful AI Inferencing Toolkit—from the OpenVINO Architect,” a Presentation from Intel
Yury Gorbachev, Senior Principal Engineer at Intel, presents the “Three Lessons Learned in Building a Successful AI Inferencing Toolkit—from the OpenVINO Architect” tutorial at the May 2021 Embedded Vision Summit. With OpenVINO, Intel started with a simple vision in mind: “How might we get the best deep learning performance with real-world solutions deployed into production?” […]
“Performance, Ease of Development or Features: What Do Inferencing Software Developers Need Most?,” a Presentation from Intel
Soren Knudsen, Lead Planner in the OpenVINO Team, and Raymond Lo, OpenVINO Edge AI Software Evangelist, both of Intel, co-present the “Performance, Ease of Development or Features: What Do Inferencing Software Developers Need Most?” tutorial at the May 2021 Embedded Vision Summit. In this fireside chat, Lo and Knudsen discuss what they have learned about […]
“Accelerating Edge AI Solution Development with Pre-validated Hardware-Software Kits from Intel Partners,” a Presentation from Intel
Daniel Tsui, Foundational Developer Kit Product Manager at Intel, presents the “Accelerating Edge AI Solution Development with Pre-validated Hardware-Software Kits from Intel Partners” tutorial at the May 2021 Embedded Vision Summit. When developing a new edge AI solution, you want to focus on your system’s unique functionality. In this session, Tsui shares the different foundational […]
“For Vision and Edge AI, Are Today’s CPUs Really Old-School?,” a Presentation from Intel, Agent Vi and DarwinAI
Gary Brown, Director of Edge AI Marketing at Intel, AJ Frazer, Vice President of Business Development at Agent Vi, and Sheldon Fernandez, CEO at DarwinAI, co-present the “For Vision and Edge AI, Are Today’s CPUs Really Old-School?” tutorial at the May 2021 Embedded Vision Summit. As AI applications at the edge become pervasive, there’s growing […]
“Shrinking Time to Market and Reducing Costs for Retail Using Intel DevCloud for the Edge,” a Presentation from Intel and Vispera
Joe Mayberry, Platform Manager for DevCloud for the Edge at Intel, and Dr. Erdem Yörük, CTO at Vispera, co-present the “Shrinking Time to Market and Reducing Costs for Retail Using Intel DevCloud for the Edge,” tutorial at the May 2021 Embedded Vision Summit. As AI applications continue to proliferate and compute moves to the edge, […]
Intel Smart Edge: Unleashing Services at the Edge
This blog post was originally published at Intel’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Intel. Edge computing is emerging as the next transformational technology across industries—and its rapid growth is only increasing. In fact, Gartner suggests that by 2025, over 75% of data will be created and processed outside centralized data centers. […]
“Streamlining Development of Edge AI Solutions: A Healthcare Use Case,” a Presentation from Intel
Vaghesh Patel, Senior Software Developer, Adam Bishop, Software Product Manager, and Chen Su, Product Marketing Engineer, all of Intel, co-present the “Streamlining Development of Complete Edge AI Solutions via Customizable Reference Software – A Healthcare Use Case” tutorial at the May 2021 Embedded Vision Summit. The need for IoT edge applications has never been greater. […]
“Why is Taking AI to Production So Difficult?,” a Presentation from Intel and IntelliSite
Ken Mills, CEO of Epic IO, IntelliSite and Broad Sky Networks, Matthew Formica, Director of OpenVINO Product Marketing and Developer Evangelism at Intel, and Aaron Tersteeg, Global Sales Director for AI Edge Inference at Intel, co-present the “Why is Taking AI to Production So Difficult?” tutorial at the May 2021 Embedded Vision Summit. 80% of […]
“Quickly Measure and Optimize Inference Performance Using Intel DevCloud for the Edge,” a Presentation from Intel
Corey Heath, Software Engineer at Intel, presents the “Quickly Measure and Optimize Inference Performance Using Intel DevCloud for the Edge” tutorial at the May 2021 Embedded Vision Summit. When developing an edge AI solution, DNN inference performance is critical: If your network doesn’t meet your throughput and latency requirements, you’re in trouble. But accurately measuring […]
Autonomous Self-Driving Technology in Greenhouses and Outdoors
Autonomous self-driving greenhouse tow-tractors with Cyberworks Robotics retrofit system based on Intel RealSense cameras For Fernlea Flowers, implementing AGV tractors was key to providing a safe working environment for their employees while improving efficiencies and order fulfilment. Retrofitting these vehicles for autonomous driving ensures safe working distances can be maintained without sacrificing efficiency while minimising […]
Intel Accelerates AI for Industrial Applications
This blog post was originally published at Intel’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Intel. The use of artificial intelligence in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) domain is a complex and fast-moving phenomenon. In just the past few years, AI use cases and applications that were nearly impossible to scale or […]
World’s Best Processor for Thin-and-Light Windows Laptops Just Got Better
New 11th Gen Intel Core processors with Intel Iris Xe graphics, Intel Wi-Fi 6/6E (Gig+) and Intel 5G Solution 5000 power amazing PC experiences from anywhere. What’s New: Today at Computex 2021, Intel announced two new additions to the lineup of 11th Gen Intel® Core™ processors. These new processors, combined with Intel’s co-engineering work with independent software […]
Intel Launches New 11th Gen Core for Mobile
Intel delivers industry-leading mobile performance with 11th Gen Intel Core mobile H-series and Intel Xeon W-11000 series. What’s New: The new 11th Generation Intel® Core™ H-series mobile processors (code-named “Tiger Lake-H”) launched worldwide today, led by the flagship Intel® Core™ i9-11980HK — the “World’s Best Gaming Laptop Processor.”1 The Intel Core i9-11980HK delivers the highest-performance2 […]
Edge Learning is the Key to Increasing Automation Capabilities in Manufacturing
This blog post was originally published at Intel’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Intel. In many ways, ours is a different world than it was even a year or two ago. For manufacturers, these differences are all too often highlighted by the need to perform at the same to higher levels. […]
Why More Companies Are Using the Open Source AV1 Video Codec
This blog post was originally published at Intel’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Intel. If it wasn’t clear before, I think it’s unquestionable now: global online video demand is insatiable. The latest Cisco Annual Internet Report calls out just how big of an impact high-definition video is having on the market. […]
NVIDIA-Powered Systems Ready to Bask in Ice Lake
This blog post was originally published at NVIDIA’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of NVIDIA. Data-hungry workloads such as machine learning and data analytics have become commonplace. To cope with these compute-intensive tasks, enterprises need accelerated servers that are optimized for high performance. Intel’s 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named “Ice […]
Intel Launches Its Most Advanced Performance Data Center Platform
Intel Showcases New 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable – the Only Data Center Processors with Built-In AI; Delivering on Average 46% Increased Performance NEWS HIGHLIGHTS New 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors — combined with Intel’s portfolio of Intel® Optane™ persistent memory and storage, Ethernet adapters, FPGAs and optimized software solutions — deliver performance and […]
Intel Announces oneAPI Challenge Winners
What’s New: Intel today announced the winners of the Great Cross-Architecture Challenge, a collaboration with the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and Argonne National Laboratory, and run by CodeProject. The challenge attracted participants across five continents, demonstrating the growing momentum of oneAPI’s open, cross-architecture, multi-vendor programming approach. Entrants used oneAPI and Data Parallel C++ (DPC++) to […]
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger Announces ‘IDM 2.0’ Strategy for Manufacturing, Innovation and Product Leadership
IDM 2.0 is the Powerful Combination of Intel’s Internal Factory Network, Third-party Capacity and New Intel Foundry Services NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Announcing manufacturing expansion plans; beginning with ~$20 billion investment to build two new fabs in Arizona Intel 7 nanometer process development progressing well with tape in of 7nm compute tile for “Meteor Lake” expected in […]
11th Gen Intel Core: Unmatched Overclocking, Game Performance
The 11th Gen Intel® Core™ S-series desktop processors (code-named “Rocket Lake-S”) launched worldwide today, led by the flagship Intel® Core™ i9-11900K. Reaching speeds of up to 5.3GHz with Intel® Thermal Velocity Boost1, the Intel Core i9-11900K delivers even more performance to gamers and PC enthusiasts. More: 11th Gen Intel Core Desktop (Press Kit) | Tech Minute: Intel’s Rocket […]
Getting Machines to Understand Human Emotions
This blog post was originally published at Intel’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Intel. Throughout season two of the Intel on AI podcast, many of the world’s most prominent artificial intelligence (AI) experts have talked about why they believe machines can’t simply improve performance on large data sets in order for […]
Intel-Powered AI Solution Helps Reduce Diabetic Vision Loss
What’s New: Sankara Eye Foundation and Singapore-based Leben Care are deploying a comprehensive retina risk assessment software-as-a-service platform in India. Netra.AI, the cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) solution, is powered by Intel® technology and uses deep learning to identify retinal conditions in a short span of time with the accuracy level of human doctors. Netra.AI can accurately identify diabetic retinopathy […]
Mobileye, Transdev ATS and Lohr Group To Develop AV Shuttles
What’s New: Mobileye, an Intel Company; Transdev Autonomous Transport System (ATS), part of Transdev Group dedicated to autonomous mobility solutions; and Lohr Group, a mobility solutions manufacturer, have formed a strategic collaboration to develop and deploy autonomous shuttles. The companies are integrating Mobileye’s self-driving system into the i-Cristal electric shuttle, manufactured by Lohr Group, with […]
Intel, EXOS Pilot 3D Athlete Tracking with Pro Football Hopefuls
What’s New: EXOS, a leader in the field of advancing human performance, is piloting Intel’s 3D Athlete Tracking (3DAT) technology in training aspiring professional athletes to reach their peak performance. As pro days loom, these athletes seek to take their game to the next level with 3DAT by leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to gain actionable insights […]
“DevCloud for the Edge,” an Alliance Conversation with Intel
Jeff Bier, Founder of the Edge AI and Vision Alliance, interviews Monique Jones, Senior Software Engineer Team Lead at Intel, about her company’s DevCloud for the Edge developer toolset. Bier and Jones compare and contrast a DevCloud-based development flow versus the traditional approach that leverages a development board located at the engineer’s desk and directly […]
The Importance of Algorithmic Fairness
This blog post was originally published at Intel’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Intel. Algorithmic fairness is a motif that plays throughout our podcast series: as we look to AI to help us make consequential decisions involving people, guests have stressed the risks that the automated systems that we build will […]
CES 2021 – The More than Moore Pivot from Intel Mobileye
This market research report was originally published at Yole Développement’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Yole Développement. Yole Développement (Yole) has been monitoring the trajectories of Advanced Driver Assist (ADAS) and Autonomous Vehicle (AV) players for many years and has recently published Sensing and computing for ADAS 2020 and Sensors for […]
Where AI Falls Short
This blog post was originally published at Intel’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Intel. My colleague Abigail Wen is interviewing some of the greatest minds in artificial intelligence (AI) with her new podcast—Intel on AI. From Ivy-league professors to Fortune 50 executives, I’m pleasantly surprised to hear how many experts in […]
Intel Appoints Tech Industry Leader Pat Gelsinger as New CEO
News Highlights: Bob Swan will remain in CEO role until February 15 Intel expects to exceed its previously communicated guidance for fourth-quarter 2020 revenue and earnings per share (EPS). Full fourth-quarter results will be released Jan. 21, 2021, as scheduled. The company has made strong progress on its 7nm process technology and will provide an […]
CES 2021: Intel Announces Four New Processor Families
Delivering the Best Business, Education, Mobile and Gaming Computing Platforms for More Than 500 New PC Designs Coming in 2021 NEWS HIGHLIGHTS At its CES news conference, Intel highlighted how it is driving technology leadership with the introduction of more than 50 processors, resulting in more than 500 new designs for laptops and desktops coming […]
CES 2021: Mobileye Innovation Will Bring AVs to Everyone, Everywhere
Progress Includes Automated Crowdsourced Mapping, New Lidar SoC, Software-Defined Radar and AV Test Vehicles in Four New Countries NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Automated, worldwide autonomous vehicle (AV) mapping capability allows Mobileye to expand its AV test fleets; new vehicles expected in Detroit, Tokyo, Shanghai, Paris and (pending regulation) New York City early this year. Intel brings its […]
Turn a Touch Interface Touchless with Intel RealSense TCS
What’s New: Today, Intel announced Intel® RealSense™ Touchless Control Software (TCS), a simple solution for converting a touch-based kiosk or digital sign into a safer, touchless one while maintaining a familiar and intuitive user experience. With the pandemic affecting people worldwide, pay and check-in stations, automated teller machines and ordering kiosks could use the Intel RealSense […]
Introducing Intel RealSense ID Facial Authentication
What’s New: Today, Intel introduced Intel® RealSense™ ID, an on-device solution that combines an active depth sensor with a specialized neural network designed to deliver secure, accurate and user-aware facial authentication. Intel RealSense ID works with smart locks, access control, point-of-sale, ATMs, kiosks and more. “Intel RealSense ID combines purpose-built hardware and software with a dedicated […]
Intel’s 2021 Predictions for the Edge
Intel has been transforming computing at the edge for years – delivering customer value across a range of industries from health and life sciences to industrial to retail to telecommunications and beyond. The next few years promise to be exciting as analysts predict that by 2023, approximately 75% of data will be created outside the […]
“Recent Advances in Post-training Quantization,” a Presentation from Intel
Alexander Kozlov, Deep Learning R&D Engineer at Intel, presents the “Recent Advances in Post-training Quantization” tutorial at the September 2020 Embedded Vision Summit. The use of low-precision arithmetic (8-bit and smaller data types) is key for the deployment of deep neural network inference with high performance, low cost and low power consumption. Shifting to low-precision […]
New Intel oneAPI Toolkits for XPU Software Development
What’s New: Following a November announcement, Intel today released production of Intel® oneAPI toolkits for developing high-performance, cross-architecture applications for Intel® CPUs, GPUs and FPGAs, collectively described as XPUs. The version 2021.1 toolkits deliver oneAPI, an open, standards-based, unified cross-architecture programming model that provides developers the freedom to choose the best hardware for accelerated computing. In addition to the […]
“Streamline, Simplify, and Solve for the Edge of the Future,” a General Session Presentation from Intel
Bill Pearson, Vice President of the Internet of Things Group and General Manager of Developer Enabling at Intel, presents the “Streamline, Simplify, and Solve for the Edge of the Future” tutorial at the September 2020 Embedded Vision Summit. Today, edge AI is changing our world — whether it’s smart lab instruments enabling faster blood tests, […]
How Facebook Uses AI
This blog post was originally published at Intel’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Intel. 2.7 billion people—more than one third of all humans on planet Earth—use Facebook. That’s a staggering figure! Despite its ubiquity, the centrality of AI—not just hand-written code—is probably invisible to most users. In a recent episode of […]
Upcoming Webinar Explores Best Practices When Working with FRAMOS’ Industrial RealSense Camera
On December 3, 2020 at 8:30 am PT (5:30 pm CEST), Alliance Member Company FRAMOS will deliver the webinar “Best Practices When Working with FRAMOS Industrial RealSense™ Camera”. From the event page: Join Ferdinand Reitze, FRAMOS 3D Product Manager, and Michael Ogilvie, Senior Field Application Engineer at FRAMOS as they explain Intel’s® RealSense™ technology and […]
First Intel Structured ASIC for 5G, AI, Cloud and Edge Announced
What’s New: At Intel FPGA Technology Day, Intel announced a new, customizable solution to help accelerate application performance across 5G, artificial intelligence, cloud and edge workloads. The new Intel® eASIC N5X is the first structured eASIC family with an Intel® FPGA compatible hard processor system. The Intel eASIC N5X helps customers migrate both their custom logic […]
New Intel Open FPGA Stack Eases Development of Custom Platforms
What’s New: At Intel FPGA Technology Day, Intel announced the new Intel® Open FPGA Stack (Intel® OFS), a scalable, source-accessible hardware and software infrastructure delivered through git repositories that makes it easier for hardware, software and application developers to create custom acceleration platforms and solutions. In addition, Intel OFS provides standard interfaces and APIs to enable greater code […]
FRAMOS Expands Depth Camera Portfolio with the Addition of the Intel RealSense D455 Depth Camera
Thursday, November 19, 2020 – FRAMOS is happy to announce the addition of Intel® RealSense’s™ D455, its fourth depth camera in the D400 series, to their 3D devices portfolio. This product draws on over 10 years of stereo camera development to provide a unique set of features required by challenging 3D camera implementors. FRAMOS’s sales, […]
Intel Executing toward XPU Vision with oneAPI and Intel Server GPU
What’s New: Intel today announced key milestones in its multiyear journey to deliver a mix of architectures with a unified software experience. The company announced the gold release of Intel® oneAPI toolkits coming in December, and new capabilities in its software stack as part of the Intel’s combined hardware and software design approach. Intel also debuted […]
“Smarter Manufacturing with Intel’s Deep Learning-Based Machine Vision,” a Presentation from Intel
Tara K. Thimmanaik, Solutions Architect at Intel, presents the “Smarter Manufacturing with Intel’s Deep Learning-Based Machine Vision” tutorial at the September 2020 Embedded Vision Summit. As demand for smarter and more efficient manufacturing is growing, IoT technologies—including sensors, edge devices, gateways, servers and the cloud—are being used throughout the factory to compute deep learning analytics […]
“Acceleration of Deep Learning Using OpenVINO: 3D Seismic Case Study,” a Presentation from Intel
Manas Pathak, Global AI Lead for Oil and Gas at Intel, presents the “Acceleration of Deep Learning Using OpenVINO: 3D Seismic Case Study” tutorial at the September 2020 Embedded Vision Summit. The use of deep learning for automatic seismic data interpretation is gaining the attention of many researchers across the oil and gas industry. The […]
“Federated Edge Computing System Architectures,” a Presentation from Intel
Vaidyanathan Krishnamoorthy, Edge Inference Solutions Architect at Intel, presents the “Federated Edge Computing System Architectures” tutorial at the September 2020 Embedded Vision Summit. With ever-increasing amounts of video and other sensor data, and growing requirements for privacy and low latency, inferencing at the edge is increasingly attractive. But there are many ways to allocate and […]
“Edge Inferencing—Scalability with Intel Vision Accelerator Design Cards,” a Presentation from Intel
Rama Karamsetty, Global Marketing Manager at Intel, presents the “Edge Inferencing—Scalability with Intel Vision Accelerator Design Cards” tutorial at the September 2020 Embedded Vision Summit. Are you trying to deploy AI solutions at the edge, but running into scalability challenges that are making it difficult to meet your performance, power and price targets without creating […]
“Getting Efficient DNN Inference Performance: Is It Really About the TOPS?,” a Presentation from Intel
Gary Brown, Director of AI Marketing at Intel, presents the “Getting Efficient DNN Inference Performance: Is It Really About the TOPS?” tutorial at the September 2020 Embedded Vision Summit. This presentation looks at how performance is measured among deep learning inference platforms, starting with the simple peak TOPS metric, why it’s used and why it […]
Innovation Extends with Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics and Deep Link
What’s New: Today, Intel launched Intel® Iris® Xe MAX graphics, designed for thin-and-light laptops and now available from partners. Intel Iris Xe MAX graphics is based on the same Xe-LP microarchitecture used for Intel Iris Xe graphics in 11th Gen Intel® Core™ mobile processors. It is Intel’s first Xe-based discrete graphics processing unit (GPU) as part of the company’s […]
Intel to Acquire SigOpt to Scale AI Productivity and Performance
What’s New: Today, Intel announced it will acquire SigOpt, a San Francisco-based provider of a leading platform for the optimization of artificial intelligence (AI) software models at scale. SigOpt’s AI software technologies deliver productivity and performance gains across hardware and software parameters, use cases and workloads in deep learning, machine learning and data analytics. Intel plans to use SigOpt’s […]
Intel’s 11th Gen Processor (Rocket Lake-S) Architecture Detailed
What’s New: Earlier this year, Intel made desktop PCs even better with 10th Gen Intel® Core™ S-series processors, headlined by the Intel Core i9-10900K. In the first quarter of 2021, the 11th Gen Intel Core S-series desktop processors (code-named “Rocket Lake-S”) will bring even more performance to gamers and PC enthusiasts. Intelligently designed for desktop performance, […]
AI is Essential to India’s Future of Work, Study Finds
What’s new: Today at the all.ai 2020 Virtual Summit, Intel India and Indian School of Business (ISB) released a report, “The Impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the Indian Labor Market,” conducted by the Srini Raju Centre for Information Technology and the Networked Economy (SRITNE) at ISB. The study assesses the size and scope of the […]
Software First: oneAPI Simplifies Development for Heterogeneous Computing
This blog post was originally published at Intel’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Intel. My first blog in this three-part series explored the opportunities associated with the growing workload diversity and the inevitable growth of heterogeneous computing in the exascale era. In this blog, I address the barriers that developers encounter […]
Intel Powers First Satellite with AI on Board
As ubiquitous as artificial intelligence has become in modern life — from boosting our understanding of the cosmos to surfacing entertaining videos on your phone — AI hasn’t yet found its way into orbit. That is until Sept. 2, when an experimental satellite about the size of a cereal box was ejected from a rocket’s […]
Measuring Packages and Pallets at the Speed of Light
What’s New: Today, Intel introduced Intel® RealSense™ Dimensional Weight Software (DWS), a legal-for-trade-ready, volumetric-measurement solution with industry-leading accuracy and speed. Designed with Intel’s proprietary volumetric-measurement SDK and based on the Intel RealSense LiDAR Camera L515, the DWS solution will help transform dimensional measurement throughout the logistics industry. “Intel RealSense Dimensional Weight Software expands our offering in the […]
What Is the Future of AI?
This blog post was originally published at Intel’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Intel. When it comes to artificial intelligence (AI), few people can match Andrew Ng’s breadth and depth of experience, combining research in a world-leading academic environment, accelerating AI education (one of his courses really helped me when I […]
Intel and Sandia National Labs Collaborate on Neuromorphic Computing
What’s New: Today, Intel Federal LLC announced a three-year agreement with Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia) to explore the value of neuromorphic computing for scaled-up computational problems. Sandia will kick off its research using a 50-million neuron Loihi-based system that was delivered to its facility in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This work with Loihi will lay the foundation […]
Why the Geely Auto Group Win is a Game Changer
This blog post was originally published at Intel’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Intel. As I have said consistently, it is critical to first get the technology right before bringing it to production to enable rapid scaling. The deal we announced with Geely Auto Group today, which utilizes our proven surround-view […]
IoT-Enhanced Processors Increase Performance, AI, Security
What’s New: Today at the Intel Industrial Summit 2020, Intel announced new enhanced internet of things (IoT) capabilities. The 11th Gen Intel® Core™ processors, Intel Atom® x6000E series, and Intel® Pentium® and Celeron® N and J series bring new artificial intelligence (AI), security, functional safety and real-time capabilities to edge customers. With a robust hardware […]
Intel AI Powers Samsung Medison’s Fetal Ultrasound Smart Workflow
What’s New: Samsung Medison and Intel are collaborating on new smart workflow solutions to improve obstetric measurements that contribute to maternal and fetal safety and can help save lives. Using an Intel® Core™ i3 processor, the Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit and OpenCV library, Samsung Medison’s BiometryAssist™ automates and simplifies fetal measurements, while LaborAssist™ automatically […]
Intel Launches World’s Best Processor for Thin-and-Light Laptops: 11th Gen Intel Core
More than 150 Designs in Development, Including 20 Verified Under New Intel Evo Platform Brand NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Intel launches 11th Gen Intel® Core™ processors with Intel® Iris® Xe graphics, the world’s best processors for thin-and-light laptops1, delivering up to 2.7x faster content creation2, more than 20% faster office productivity3 and more than 2x faster gaming plus streaming4 in […]
Intel Delivers Advances Across 6 Pillars of Technology, Powering Our Leadership Product Roadmap
At Architecture Day 2020, Intel Technical Leaders Showcase New Architectures and Innovations for the Intelligent Era At Intel, we truly believe in the potential of technology to enrich lives and change the world. This has been a guiding principle since the company was founded. It started with the PC era, when technology enabled the mass […]
“An Industry Standard Performance Benchmark Suite for Machine Learning,” a Presentation from MLPerf
Christine Cheng, co-chair of the inference benchmark working group at MLPerf and a senior machine learning optimization engineer at Intel, delivers the presentation “MLPerf: An Industry Standard Performance Benchmark Suite for Machine Learning” at the Edge AI and Vision Alliance’s July 2020 Edge AI and Vision Innovation Forum. Cheng explains how MLPerf’s inference benchmark suite […]
Intel RealSense Technology Selected by RightHand Robotics to Revolutionize Automated Order Fulfillment
July 27, 2020 – Due to the global pandemic, this year’s e-commerce sales are on the rise. Growth in online retail has placed increased pressure on warehouses to keep up with higher volumes of orders and with social-distancing protocols that have restricted the number of staff allowed on-site. Massachusetts-based RightHand Robotics addresses these challenges with […]
Mobileye and Ford Announce High-Volume Agreement for ADAS in Global Vehicles
Mobileye, an Intel company, and Ford Motor Company are collaborating on cutting-edge driver-assistance systems across Ford’s global product lineup. As the chosen supplier of vision-sensing technology for Ford’s advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), Mobileye will provide its EyeQ® family of devices, together with vision-processing software, to support Level 1 and Level 2 ADAS in Ford vehicles globally. More: Autonomous Driving […]
To Catch a Poacher: How Our Engineers Brought AI Tech to the Fight Against the Illegal Wildlife Trade
This blog post was originally published at Intel’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Intel. In the wildlife reserves of East Africa, elephants, rhinos, gorillas, and other large mammals are hunted by poachers. All that stands between these animals and harm’s way are small teams of park rangers and conservationists. The danger […]
Mobileye Starts Testing Self-Driving Vehicles in Germany
What’s New: Mobileye, an Intel company, received an automated vehicle (AV) testing permit recommendation from the independent technical service provider TÜV SÜD. As one of the leading experts in the field of safe and secure automated driving, TÜV SÜD enabled Mobileye to obtain approval from German authorities by validating the vehicle and functional safety concepts of […]
Mobileye and WILLER Partner on Self-Driving Mobility Solutions for Japan, Southeast Asia
JERUSALEM, Israel, and OSAKA, Japan, July 8, 2020 – Mobileye, an Intel Company, and WILLER, one of the largest transportation operators in Japan, Taiwan and the Southeast Asian region, today announced a strategic collaboration to launch an autonomous robotaxi service in Japan and markets across Southeast Asia, including Taiwan. Beginning in Japan, the companies will […]
Edge Computing Software that Simplifies Edge AI
This blog post was originally published at Intel’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Intel. 2020 has presented significant challenges, such as COVID-19, as well as opportunities that put human resiliency into perspective and priorities reconsidered across industries and our daily lives. However, the need to do more with data in more […]
Intel Launches First Artificial Intelligence Associate Degree Program
What’s New: Intel is partnering with Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) to launch the first Intel-designed artificial intelligence (AI) associate degree program in the United States. The Arizona Commerce Authority will also provide a workforce grant of $100,000 to support the program. It will enable tens of thousands of students to land careers in high-tech, […]
Intel and National Science Foundation Invest in Wireless-Specific Machine Learning Edge Research
What’s New: Today, Intel and the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced award recipients of joint funding for research into the development of future wireless systems. The Machine Learning for Wireless Networking Systems (MLWiNS) program is the latest in a series of joint efforts between the two partners to support research that accelerates innovation with the focus of enabling […]
Intel Announces Unmatched AI and Analytics Platform with New Processor, Memory, Storage and FPGA Solutions
What’s New: Intel today introduced its 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and additions to its hardware and software AI portfolio, enabling customers to accelerate the development and use of artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics workloads running in data center, network and intelligent-edge environments. As the industry’s first mainstream server processor with built-in bfloat16 support, Intel’s […]
Intel RealSense Depth Camera D455: Twice the Range, Better Performance
What’s New: Today, Intel introduced the Intel® RealSense™ Depth Camera D455, a new stereo-based depth camera equipped with a longer range and increased precision that achieves twice the range of previous generation models. The D455 grants developers the freedom to design vision-based solutions that give devices the ability to see, understand, interact with and learn from […]
New Long-Term Support Release Marks Second Anniversary of Intel Distribution of OpenVINO Toolkit
This blog post was originally published at Intel’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Intel. We’re coming up on the second anniversary of Intel Distribution of OpenVINO toolkit, which makes this the perfect time to look at the past, present, and future of the toolkit that’s helping companies worldwide accelerate the performance […]
FRAMOS Launches More Industrial 3D GigE Cameras Based on Intel’s® RealSense™ Technology
June 4, 2020 – FRAMOS, the global partner for Vision Technologies, extends its line of industrial grade versions of Intel’s® RealSense™ Suite providing Gigabit Ethernet connectivity and an IP66 rated housings. The D415e industrial 3D GigE Vision camera leverages the advantages of easy-to-integrate 3D vision in rugged environments; enabling real-time positioning, orientation, and tracking of […]
2020 Vision Product of the Year Award Winner Showcase: Intel (Developer Tools)
Intel’s DevCloud for the Edge is the 2020 Vision Product of the Year Award Winner in the Developer Tools category. The Intel® DevCloud for the Edge allows you to virtually prototype and experiment with AI workloads for computer vision on the latest Intel edge inferencing hardware, with no hardware setup required since the code executes […]
Intel Works with University of Pennsylvania in Using Privacy-Preserving AI to Identify Brain Tumors
What’s New: Intel Labs and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn Medicine) are co-developing technology to enable a federation of 29 international healthcare and research institutions led by Penn Medicine to train artificial intelligence (AI) models that identify brain tumors using a privacy-preserving technique called federated learning. Penn Medicine’s work […]
The Challenge of Supporting AV at Scale
This blog post was originally published by Mobileye, an Intel company. It is reprinted here with the permission of Intel. At the Consumer Electronics Show in January, we presented an unedited 25 minute-long video of a Mobileye self-driving car navigating the busy streets of Jerusalem. The video was published, first and foremost, for the sake […]
Unified Programming Model Critical to Uncompromised Application Performance, Saves Time and Money, Study Finds
What’s New: New computing accelerators are rapidly emerging, and organizations need to examine time and financial considerations associated with developing performance-sensitive applications that can run on both new and existing computing platforms. Commissioned by Intel, a recent research report from J.Gold Associates, “oneAPI: Software Abstraction for a Heterogeneous Computing World,” discusses the importance of application […]
DarwinAI Makes AI Applications More Efficient and Less of a ‘Black Box’ — with Its Own AI
This blog post was originally published at Intel’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Intel. As a student pursuing a doctorate in systems design engineering at the University of Waterloo, Alexander Wong didn’t have enough money for the hardware he needed to run his experiments in computer vision. So he invented a […]
Intel and Udacity Launch New Edge AI Program to Train 1 Million Developers
What’s New: Today, Intel and Udacity announced the new Intel® Edge AI for IoT Developers Nanodegree Program to train the developer community in deep learning and computer vision, which will accelerate the development and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) models at the edge by leveraging the Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit. Students who successfully complete the nanodegree program, estimated to take about three […]
Intel Joins Georgia Tech in DARPA Program to Mitigate Machine Learning Deception Attacks
What’s New: Intel and the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) announced today that they have been selected to lead a Guaranteeing Artificial Intelligence (AI) Robustness against Deception (GARD) program team for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Intel is the prime contractor in this four-year, multimillion-dollar joint effort to improve cybersecurity defenses against deception […]
A Breath of Fresh Air: How GE Healthcare is Accelerating Pneumothorax Detection with AI
This blog post was originally published at Intel’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Intel. Medical imaging data contains the power to save lives. Every tiny sliver of an image potentially holds the key to hugely important breakthroughs in treatment. And this year alone, hospitals produced over 50 petabytes of data, with […]
Huiying Medical: Helping Combat COVID-19 with AI Technology
This blog post was originally published at Intel’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Intel. The COVID-19 coronavirus, since its initial outbreak in Wuhan, China, has quickly become a global pandemic, as declared by the World Health Organization (WHO). The number of confirmed cases has exceeded 577,531 globally as of March 27, […]
Maximize CPU Inference Performance with Improved Threads and Memory Management in Intel Distribution of OpenVINO Toolkit
This blog post was originally published at Intel’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Intel. The popularity of convolutional neural network (CNN) models and the ubiquity of CPUs means that better inference performance can deliver significant gains to a larger number of users than ever before. As multi-core processors become the norm, […]
Simplifying Cloud to Edge AI Deployments with the Intel Distribution of OpenVINO Toolkit, Microsoft Azure, and ONNX Runtime
This blog post was originally published at Intel’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Intel. Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, Simplify, Simplify Henry David Thoreau Significant technological innovations usually follow a well-established pattern. A small group of brilliant minds stumble upon some incredible innovation, which is then quickly adopted […]
A Faster, Simpler Path to AI-Enabled Robotics: The UP Squared RoboMaker Developer Kit, Powered by Intel and AWS
This blog post was originally published at Intel’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Intel. The pace of innovation is quickening across all industries, including manufacturing and the intelligent factories of Industry 4.0. Unlocking the value of data via machine learning is propelling us into this next phase, and innovations in industrial […]
Streamline Your Intel Distribution of OpenVINO Toolkit Development with Deep Learning Workbench
This blog post was originally published at Intel’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Intel. Back in 2018, Intel launched the Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit. Since then, it’s been widely adopted by partners and developers to deploy AI-powered applications in various industries, from self-checkout kiosks to medical imaging to industrial robotics. […]
Protecting Privacy in a Data-Driven World: Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning
This blog post was originally published at Intel’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Intel. Privacy for machine learning (ML) and other data-intensive applications is increasingly threatened by sophisticated methods of re-identifying anonymized data. In addition, while encryption helps preserve privacy while data is stored on hard drives or moving over networks, […]
Exploring Deep Learning Face Recognition with Thermal Images
This blog post was originally published at Intel's website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Intel. Interactions with computer systems frequently benefit from the ability to detect information about the user or use environment. Image processing and analyzing techniques, including deep neural networks (DNNs), are often used for this purpose. However, many promising […]
2020 CES: Mobileye’s Global Ambitions Take Shape with New Deals in China, South Korea
January 7, 2020 – What’s New: With sales close to $1 billion in 2019 and expected to rise double-digits this year, Mobileye’s global ambitions in advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) came into sharper focus with two agreements announced today. SAIC, a leading Chinese OEM, plans to use Mobileye’s REM mapping technology to map China for L2+ ADAS […]
Intel Is Going All-In to Dominate AI Chipset World
This market research report was originally published at Tractica’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Tractica. The AI revolution started in 2012 when neural network AlexNet surpassed the accuracy of all previous classic computer vision techniques, and the industry has not looked back since. AI algorithms are compute-sensitive by nature, and the […]
Intel Demonstration of a Traffic Management Reference Pipeline
Mike Benemelis, Visual Cloud Program Manager at Intel, demonstrates the Intel Open Visual Cloud framework with OpenNESS Smart City Edge software, implementing a traffic management application.
IEEE to Define a Formal Model for Safe Automated Vehicle Decision-Making
What’s New: The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has approved a proposal to develop a standard for safety considerations in automated vehicle (AV) decision-making and named Intel Senior Principal Engineer Jack Weast to lead the workgroup. Participation in the workgroup is open to companies across the AV industry, and Weast hopes for broad […]
CES 2020: Intel Highlights Positive Global Impact in AI, Autonomous Driving and Intelligence-driven Computing
Intel has a long heritage of creating technology that serves nearly every person on Earth every day. At CES 2020, the company will demonstrate several of its latest advancements focused on creating broad positive impact for people, businesses and society as a whole. Intel News Conference – “Innovation through Intelligence” This year, Intel’s CES news […]
Intel Acquires Artificial Intelligence Chipmaker Habana Labs
Combination Advances Intel’s AI Strategy, Strengthens Portfolio of AI Accelerators for the Data Center SANTA CLARA Calif., Dec. 16, 2019 – Intel Corporation today announced that it has acquired Habana Labs, an Israel-based developer of programmable deep learning accelerators for the data center for approximately $2 billion. The combination strengthens Intel’s artificial intelligence (AI) portfolio […]
Mobileye is Mapping 28,000 Miles of Barcelona’s Roads Daily to Improve Safety
What’s New: On Monday, Dec. 2, Spain’s road safety authority, the Directorate-General for Traffic (DGT), and the City of Barcelona with Mobileye presented data from the first two months of the Autonomous Ready™ initiative, a program intended to enhance the safety of streets today while analyzing the status of infrastructure to continue improving roads for the […]
Intel RealSense Lidar Camera Technology Redefines Computer Vision
November 11, 2019 – What’s New: Today, Intel announced the Intel® RealSense™ lidar camera L515, the world’s smallest and most power-efficient, high-resolution lidar that captures millions of depth points per second. Designed with proprietary technology that creates entirely new ways to incorporate lidar into smart devices to perceive the world in 3D, the L515 provides […]
Michigan Program Adds Mobileye Collision-Avoidance Technology to State Vehicles
November 21, 2019 – In a visit to Mobileye headquarters in Jerusalem on Thursday, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced a pilot program to enhance the safety of existing state and city fleets through the application of Mobileye 8 Connect aftermarket systems for collision avoidance. The trial is part of Michigan leaders’ objective to enhance road […]
Intel Demonstration of Taking AI to Production
Kenneth Craft, Technical Consulting Engineer at Intel, demonstrates the company's latest embedded vision technologies and products at the 2019 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Craft demonstrates making industrial applications using Intel's OpenVINO Toolkit and System Studio. Intel's OpenVINO Toolkit enables optimization of deep learning inference for object flaw detection. System-wide visual performance profiling through the Intel […]
Intel Demonstration of Vision Inference Acceleration with FPGAs
Robert Garrett, Sales and Business Development Manager at Intel, demonstrates the company's latest embedded vision technologies and products at the 2019 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Garrett demonstrates how an Intel FPGA card and OpenVINO toolkit can be used to accelerate vision inference where people are detected, identified, and tracked across multiple camera feeds. The design […]
Intel Demonstration of Running Mixed Deep Learning Workloads on CPU-plus-Movidius VPU Devices
Akshatha Kini, Product Application Engineer at Intel, demonstrates the company's latest embedded vision technologies and products at the 2019 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Kini demonstrates running multiple deep learning-based computer vision applications in parallel. The first application shows face detection and face recognition, along with age and gender identification. The second application is running face […]
Intel Demonstration of Applied Depth Sensing and Tracking Technology for Real-world Applications
Brian Pruitt, RealSense Peripheral Segment Director at Intel, demonstrates the company's latest embedded vision technologies and products at the 2019 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Pruitt demonstrates a variety of Intel RealSense® vision-based solutions designed to give your products the ability to understand the world in 3D. Intel® RealSense is shaping the future of technology by […]
Xnor.ai Demonstration of Person Detection Deep Learning Running On an Intel Core i5 CPU
Ian Turner, Product Engineer at Xnor.ai, demonstrates the company’s latest embedded vision technologies and products at the 2019 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Turner demonstrates Xnor’s person detection deep learning model running on an Intel IEI Tank, which contains an Intel i5 6500 TE CPU. Traditionally, AI models have required expensive GPUs, but this demonstration shows […]
Algolux and Intel IoT Group Demonstration of Robust Computer Vision and OpenVINO Path to Production
Dave Tokic, Vice President of Marketing at Algolux, and Gary Brown, Director of AI Marketing in Intel's IoT Group, demonstrates the companies' latest embedded vision technologies and products at the 2019 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Tokic and Brown demonstrate how they have come together to provide industry-leading computer vision accuracy and robustness across all conditions […]
Intel Unveils New GPU Architecture with High-Performance Computing and AI Acceleration, and oneAPI Software Stack with Unified and Scalable Abstraction for Heterogeneous Architectures
News Highlights: Intel launches oneAPI, a unified and scalable programming model to harness the power of diverse computing architectures in the era of HPC/AI convergence. Intel introduces a general-purpose GPU optimized for HPC/AI acceleration based on the Xe architecture, code-named “Ponte Vecchio.” Intel unveils additional architectural details of the Aurora Supercomputer, delivering convergence at exascale at […]
Intel Speeds AI Development, Deployment and Performance with New Class of AI Hardware from Cloud to Edge
What’s New: Today at a gathering of industry influencers, Intel welcomed the next wave of artificial intelligence (AI) with updates on new products designed to accelerate AI system development and deployment from cloud to edge. Intel demonstrated its Intel® Nervana™ Neural Network Processors (NNP) for training (NNP-T1000) and inference (NNP-I1000) — Intel’s first purpose-built ASICs for […]
Mobileye and NIO Partner to Bring Level 4 Autonomous Vehicles to Consumers in China and Beyond
What’s New: Mobileye, an Intel company, and NIO, a pioneer in China’s premium electric vehicle market, are engaging in a strategic collaboration on the development of highly automated and autonomous vehicles (AV) for consumer markets in China and other major territories. As part of the planned cooperation, NIO will engineer and manufacture a self-driving system designed […]
Overcoming Visual Analysis Paralysis
This blog post was originally published at Intel's website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Intel. An Intel marketing team recently approached the Intel Science and Technology Center for Visual Cloud Systems with a request. They were looking for traffic video clips to use at trade shows and in demos and wondered if […]
Mobileye Outlines Strategy for Driving Significant Growth
Advanced Driver-Assist Business Takes Off; Design Wins Announced; Profits Funding Robotaxi Future JERUSALEM, Nov. 5, 2019 – During an investor summit today at Mobileye headquarters in Jerusalem, Mobileye President and CEO Professor Amnon Shashua projected significant and sustained revenue growth for the next decade. The forecast was offered within a broader strategy update that included new data […]
Intel Enables AI Acceleration and Brings New Pricing to Intel Xeon W and X-Series Processors
Latest Workstation and High-End Desktop Platforms Purpose-Built for Professional Content Creators and Desktop Enthusiasts NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Intel announces the newest generation of Intel® Xeon® W-2200 and X-series platforms, targeting availability in November. With both platforms, Intel continues to trailblaze with artificial intelligence (AI) in computing, enabling AI acceleration with Intel® Deep Learning Boost in high-end […]
Types of Tracking Defined: Skeletal Tracking, Gestures, Object Tracking and More
This blog post was originally published at Intel's website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Intel. When talking about computer vision, the word “tracking” comes up a lot. There are a lot of different kinds of tracking, depending on what you are tracking, how you are tracking it, and what you’re trying to […]
Intel Ships Stratix 10 DX FPGAs; VMware Among Early Partners
What’s New: Intel today announced shipments of new Intel® Stratix® 10 DX field programmable gate arrays (FPGA). The new FPGAs are designed to support Intel® Ultra Path Interconnect (Intel® UPI), PCI-Express (PCIe) Gen4 x16 and a new controller for Intel® Optane™ technology to provide flexible, high-performance acceleration. VMware is one of many early access program participants. […]
“AI Reliability Against Adversarial Inputs,” a Presentation from Intel
Gokcen Cilingir, AI Software Architect, and Li Chen, Data Scientist and Research Scientist, both at Intel, presents the “AI Reliability Against Adversarial Inputs” tutorial at the May 2019 Embedded Vision Summit. As artificial intelligence solutions are becoming ubiquitous, the security and reliability of AI algorithms is becoming an important consideration and a key differentiator for […]
Hollywood and the Ncam Mk2 Camera Bar with Intel® RealSense™ Technology
This blog post was originally published at Intel's website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Intel. In recent years, visual effects in movies and television have grown both more sophisticated and more ubiquitous. Audiences have grown used to elaborate environments and fantastical fight scenes, historical dramas and futuristic worlds. As audiences expect more, […]
CVAT: Speeding Up Image Annotation Since 2018
This blog post was originally published at Intel's website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Intel. We began the Computer Vision Annotation Tool (CVAT) project a few years ago in order to speed up the annotation of digital images and videos for use in training computer vision algorithms. When we started, we didn’t […]
“Fast and Accurate RMNet: A New Neural Network for Embedded Vision,” a Presentation from Intel
Ilya Krylov, Software Engineering Manager at Intel, presents the “Fast and Accurate RMNet: A New Neural Network for Embedded Vision” tutorial at the May 2019 Embedded Vision Summit. Usually, the top places in deep learning challenges are won by huge neural networks that require massive amounts of data and computation, making them impractical for use […]
Intel Lays Cornerstone for Mobileye’s New Global Development Center in Jerusalem
August 29, 2019 – On Tuesday, Mobileye President and CEO Prof. Amnon Shashua and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu laid the cornerstone for Mobileye’s new global development center in Jerusalem. They were joined by Israel Economy Minister Eli Cohen and Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion. When complete, the eight-story complex will span 50,000 square meters above ground and […]
At Hot Chips, Intel Pushes “AI Everywhere”
What’s New: At Hot Chips 2019, Intel revealed new details of upcoming high-performance artificial intelligence (AI) accelerators: Intel® Nervana™ neural network processors, with the NNP-T for training and the NNP-I for inference. Intel engineers also presented technical details on hybrid chip packaging technology, Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory and chiplet technology for optical I/O. “To get […]
“Applied Depth Sensing with Intel RealSense,” a Presentation from Intel
Sergey Dorodnicov, Software Architect at Intel, presents the “Applied Depth Sensing with Intel RealSense” tutorial at the May 2019 Embedded Vision Summit. As robust depth cameras become more affordable, many new products will benefit from true 3D vision. This presentation highlights the benefits of depth sensing for tasks such as autonomous navigation, collision avoidance and […]
FRAMOS Launches an Industrial 3D GigE Camera Based on Intel’s RealSense Technology
07/08/2019 09:00 – FRAMOS, the global partner for Vision Technologies, has developed an industrial grade version of Intel’s® RealSense™ Suite to provide Gigabit Ethernet connectivity and an IP66 rated housing. The D435e industrial 3D GigE Vision camera leverages the advantages of easy-to-integrate 3D vision in rugged environments; enabling real-time positioning, orientation and tracking of robots, […]
Exploring Neuromorphic Computing for AI: Why Spikes? (Part Two)
This blog post was originally published at Intel's website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Intel. In this blog series, we’re looking at one of Intel’s branches of AI research, neuromorphic computing. The goal of neuromorphic computing is to apply the fundamental properties of neural computation found in nature to breakthroughs in non-Von […]
Next-generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors to Deliver Breakthrough Platform Performance with Up to 56 Processor Cores
What’s New: Intel today announced its next-generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor family (codename Cooper Lake) will offer customers up to 56 processor cores per socket and built-in AI training acceleration in standard socketed Intel Xeon Scalable processor offerings with availability starting in the first half of 2020. The breakthrough platform performance delivered within the high-core-count Cooper […]
Intel Launches First 10th Gen Intel Core Processors: Redefining the Next Era of Laptop Experiences
What’s New: Today, Intel officially launched 11 new, highly integrated 10th Gen Intel® Core™ processors designed for remarkably sleek 2 in 1s and laptops. The processors bring high-performance artificial intelligence (AI) to the PC at scale, feature new Intel® Iris® Plus graphics for stunning entertainment and enable the best connectivity1 with Intel® Wi-Fi 6 (Gig+) and Thunderbolt™ 3. Systems are expected from […]
Intel Expands Workload Acceleration with Hewlett Packard Enterprise in New Programmable Acceleration Card
What’s New: Intel announced today it is working with Hewlett Packard Enterprise* (HPE) to provide increased workload acceleration capacity for the HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 server. This will address computing-intensive markets – like streaming analytics, media transcoding, financial technology and network security – with the new high-performance Intel® FPGA Programmable Acceleration Card (Intel® FPGA PAC) D5005. The Intel […]
Lenovo and Intel Announce Multiyear Global Collaboration to Extend HPC and AI Leadership
Collaboration Will Build on Long-Standing Partnership to Further Accelerate Scientific and Business Innovation and Discovery SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 5, 2019 — Intel and Lenovo today announced a multiyear collaboration focused on the rapidly growing opportunity in the convergence of high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) to help accelerate solutions for the world’s most […]
“Data Annotation at Scale: Pitfalls and Solutions,” a Presentation from Intel
Nikita Manovich, Senior Software Engineer at Intel, presents the “Data Annotation at Scale: Pitfalls and Solutions” tutorial at the May 2019 Embedded Vision Summit. In many real-world use cases, deep learning algorithms work well if you have enough high-quality data to train them. Obtaining that data is a critical limiting factor in the development of […]
Exploring Neuromorphic Computing for AI: Why Spikes? (Part One)
This blog post was originally published at Intel's website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Intel. AI is now fast defining the next major era of computing, thanks to the pioneering work of David Rumelhart, Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun, Yoshua Bengio, and many others over the past few decades. Yet ongoing progress in […]
Intel’s Pohoiki Beach, a 64-Chip Neuromorphic System, Delivers Breakthrough Results in Research Tests
What’s New: Today, Intel announced that an 8 million-neuron neuromorphic system comprising 64 Loihi research chips — codenamed Pohoiki Beach — is now available to the broader research community. With Pohoiki Beach, researchers can experiment with Intel’s brain-inspired research chip, Loihi, which applies the principles found in biological brains to computer architectures. Loihi enables users to […]
Navigating the Winding Road Toward Driverless Mobility…and Why Your First Autonomous Ride will Likely be in a Robotaxi
This blog post was originally published at Intel's website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Intel. As we all watch automakers and autonomous tech companies team up in various alliances, it’s natural to wonder about their significance and what the future will bring. Are we realizing that autonomous driving technology and its acceptance […]
Intel Is Tackling the Challenges of the Intelligence Era
This market research report was originally published at Tractica's website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Tractica. Intel held its Analyst Event for European analysts during June. Some of Tractica’s observations are discussed below. First impressions and highlights of the event: The recent Analyst Event in London provided a good overview of Intel’s […]
Top AI Chipset Companies Announced, Including NVIDIA, Intel, NXP, Apple, and Google, Based on CompassIntel.com Research
NVIDIA, Intel, NXP, Apple, and Google top the A-List in AI Chipset Index based on recently released research by Compass Intelligence. The 2019 A-List in AI (artificial intelligence) Chipset Index includes companies providing software and hardware components of AI chipsets. AI chipset products include central processing units, graphic processing units, neural network processors, application specific […]
“How to Get the Best Deep Learning Performance with the OpenVINO Toolkit,” a Presentation from Intel
Yury Gorbachev, Principal Engineer at Intel, presents the "How to Get the Best Deep Learning Performance with the OpenVINO Toolkit" tutorial at the May 2019 Embedded Vision Summit. Tremendous recent progress in deep learning and computer vision algorithms has made it possible to create innovative applications that were not previously feasible. However, moving from academic […]
“Object Trackers: Approaches and Applications,” a Presentation from Intel
Minje Park, Deep Learning R&D Engineer at Intel, presents the "Object Trackers: Approaches and Applications" tutorial at the May 2019 Embedded Vision Summit. Object tracking is a powerful algorithm component and one of the fundamental building blocks for many real-world computer vision applications. Object trackers provide two main benefits when incorporated into a localization module. […]
Baidu Named Development Partner on Intel Nervana Neural Network Processor for Training
What’s New: Today at the Baidu Create AI developer conference in Beijing, Intel Corporate Vice President Naveen Rao announced that Baidu* is collaborating with Intel on development of the new Intel® Nervana™ Neural Network Processor for Training (NNP-T). The collaboration involves the hardware and software designs of the new custom accelerator with one purpose – training deep learning […]
Intel and Auto Industry Leaders Publish New Automated Driving Safety Framework
Intel and Auto Industry Leaders Publish New Automated Driving Safety Framework What’s New: Intel, in collaboration with 10 industry leaders in automotive and autonomous driving technology, today published “Safety First for Automated Driving,” a framework for the design, development, verification and validation of safe automated passenger vehicles (AVs). The paper builds on Intel’s model for […]
Intel’s ‘One API’ Project Delivers Unified Programming Model Across Diverse Architectures
What’s New: Today at Intel’s Software Technology Day in London, Intel engineering leaders provided an update on Intel’s software project – “One API” – to deliver a unified programming model to simplify application development across diverse computing architectures. “One API is a project to deliver a set of developer tools that provide a unified programming model […]
“AI+: Combining AI and Other Critical Functions Using Intel FPGAs,” a Presentation from Intel
Ronak Shah, Director of AI Marketing Strategy at Intel's Programmable Solutions Group, presents the "AI+: Combining AI and Other Critical Functions Using Intel FPGAs" tutorial at the May 2019 Embedded Vision Summit. AI is increasingly being deployed in vision applications, and most of these applications require other functionality in addition to AI. For example, a […]
Increasing AI Performance and Efficiency with Intel DL Boost
This blog post was originally published at Intel's website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Intel. PyTorch acceleration baked into the latest generation of Intel Xeons. That will help speed up the 200 trillion predictions and 6 billion translations Facebook does every day. https://t.co/2gM75pFvrC — Yann LeCun (@ylecun) April 9, 2019 Intel® Deep […]
16-Year-Old Engineer Works to Improve Spinal Surgery Using Machine Learning and Computer Vision
PHOENIX, May 17, 2019 – Krithik Ramesh, 16, of Greenwood Village, Colorado, was awarded first place for developing a machine learning technology for orthopedic surgeons at this year’s Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), a program of Society for Science & the Public. Intel ISEF is the world’s largest international pre-college science competition. The […]
2019 Vision Product of the Year Award Winner Showcase: Intel (Developer Tools)
Intel's OpenVINO Toolkit is the 2019 Vision Product of the Year Award Winner in the Developer Tools category. The OpenVINO toolkit (available as either the Intel Distribution or the Open Source version) is a free software developer toolkit for prototyping and deploying of high performance computer vision (CV) and deep learning (DL) applications from device […]
COMPUTEX 2019: Top Five Intel Platform Innovations Driving the Next Wave of Computing
Intel, ASUS and Microsoft partner to launch the first AI on PC development kit, featuring a powerful combination of an Intel Core CPU, Intel Integrated Graphics and an Intel Movidius Myriad X VPU. May 29, 2019 – Today at Computex 2019 in Taipei, Taiwan, Intel showcased how its products and technologies enable the full PC […]
Intel COMPUTEX Preview: New Products Deliver Real-World Performance — Up to 2x Gaming and 8x AI Boost
May 26, 2019 – Ahead of Intel’s COMPUTEX Opening Keynote on May 28, the company today previewed products that deliver a significant boost in real-world workload performance, including a sneak peek at the company’s new 10nm mobile processor (code-named “Ice Lake”) and the special edition 9th Gen Intel® Core™ i9-9900KS processor – both shipping this […]
“Embedded Vision Summit 2019 Preview,” a Video from Intel
Learn about the Embedded Vision Summit 2019 in Santa Clara, California! Read about the event: http://bit.ly/2PWkVUs Register for the 2019 Embedded Vision Summit: http://bit.ly/2PTr5o4 Subscribe to the Intel Software YouTube Channel: http://bit.ly/2iZTCsz About Intel Software: The Intel® Developer Zone encourages and supports software developers that are developing applications for Intel hardware and software products. The […]
Intel Drives Innovation Across the Software Stack with Open Source for AI and Cloud
May 14, 2019 – What’s New: Intel is hosting the annual Open Source Technology Summit (OSTS) May 14-16. What started as an internal conference in 2004 with a few dozen engineers now brings together 500 participants. This year is the most open yet, with leaders from Alibaba*, Amazon*, AT&T*, Google*, Huawei*, JD.com*, Microsoft*, MontaVista*, Red […]
Ordnance Survey and Mobileye Begin Trials to Map Britain’s Roadside Infrastructure
LONDON, May 7, 2019 – Ordnance Survey (OS), Great Britain’s national mapping agency, and Mobileye, an Intel company, have launched trials to create the first detailed roadside infrastructure dataset of Britain for a new, accurate and customisable location information service. To support the trials, Northumbrian Water Group has become the first utility company in the […]
Upcoming Intel Online Conference Provides Insights Into Industry-leading IoT Solutions
On June 18 and 19, 2019, Alliance member company Intel will deliver the Fourth Intel Global IoT DevFest, a virtual event tailored for a worldwide audience spanning multiple geographies and countries. For attendees, here's the description from the event overview page: Gain insights on industry-leading IoT solutions through a wide selection of real-world business use […]
Accelerating TensorFlow Inference with Intel Deep Learning Boost on 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors
This blog post was originally published at Intel's website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Intel. Intel has recently introduced Intel® Deep Learning Boost (Intel® DL Boost), a new set of embedded processor technologies designed to accelerate deep learning applications. Intel DL Boost includes new Vector Neural Network Instructions (VNNI) that can be […]
Introducing the Model Zoo for Intel Architecture
This blog post was originally published at Intel's website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Intel. Are you a data scientist who wants to optimize the performance of your machine learning (ML) inference workloads? Perhaps you’ve heard of the Intel® Optimization for TensorFlow* and the Intel® Math Kernel Library for Deep Neural Networks […]
Intel Acquires Omnitek, Strengthens FPGA Video and Vision Offering
April 16, 2019 – What’s New: Intel Corporation today announced the acquisition of Omnitek, a leading provider of optimized video and vision FPGA IP solutions. Omnitek’s technology enables customized high-performance vision and artificial intelligence (AI) inferencing capabilities on FPGAs for customers across a range of end markets. Omnitek’s IP addresses demanding application requirements in areas […]
Digitizing the Social Contract for Safer Roads
This blog post was originally published at Intel's website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Intel. When Mobileye set out to design a safety concept for autonomous vehicles (AVs), we first had to examine the concepts and mechanisms that humans use to maintain road safety. We needed a framework fully compliant with the […]
2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors Bring Powerful Deep Learning Capabilities to Transform Your Business with A.I.
This blog post was originally published at Intel's website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Intel. From enabling security throughout a city, to the rapid identification and classification of complex medical imaging data, Intel is accelerating the value of IoT. As the billions of connected things generate massive data at ever-increasing rates, the […]
Intel Announces Broadest Product Portfolio for Moving, Storing and Processing Data
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS: Intel announces general availability of the 2nd-Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor optimized for customers’ most demanding processing requirements from the intelligent edge to the cloud, and across artificial intelligence (AI) and 5G. Intel introduces more than 50 workload-optimized Intel Xeon processors, complemented by dozens of custom processors designed with deep engineering engagements with […]
Intel Driving Data-Centric World with New 10nm Intel Agilex FPGA Family
April 2, 2019 – What’s New: Intel announced today a brand-new product family, the Intel® Agilex™ FPGA. This new family of field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) will provide customized solutions to address the unique data-centric business challenges across embedded, network and data center markets. “The race to solve data-centric problems requires agile and flexible solutions that […]
Inference Performance Boost with Seldon on Intel Xeon Scalable Processors
This blog post was originally published at Intel's website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Intel. Many AI applications have data pipelines that include several processing steps when executing inference operations. These steps can include data transformation, inference execution and conditional processing. The Seldon Core* open source machine learning framework facilitates management of […]
CPU Inference Performance Boost with “Throughput” Mode in the Intel Distribution of OpenVINO Toolkit
This blog post was originally published at Intel's website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Intel. One of the biggest challenges to AI can be eliciting high-performance deep learning inference that runs at real-world scale, leveraging existing infrastructures. Combining efficiency and flexibility, the Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit (a developer tool suite that […]
Intel’s Recommendations for the U.S. National Strategy on Artificial Intelligence
This article was originally published at Intel's website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Intel. Executive Summary Nations that invest in Artificial Intelligence (AI) stand to gain tremendous advantages across industry, government and society at large. On February 11, 2019 the White House issued an Executive Order on Maintaining American Leadership in Artificial […]
New Computer Vision Tool Accelerates Annotation of Digital Images and Video
This blog post was originally published at Intel's website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Intel. Data scientists need annotated data (and lots of it) to train the deep neural networks (DNNs) at the core of AI workflows. Obtaining annotated data, or annotating data yourself, is a challenging and time-consuming process. For example, […]
Improving TensorFlow Inference Performance on Intel Xeon Processors
This article was originally published at Intel's website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Intel. TensorFlow* is one of the most popular deep learning frameworks for large-scale machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL). Since 2016, Intel and Google engineers have been working together to optimize TensorFlow performance for deep learning training and […]
Intel Neural Compute Stick 2 for Medical Imaging
This blog post was originally published at Intel's website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Intel. Intel has been an integral part of hospital technology for almost 50 years. From desktop computers to MRI scanners, diagnostic monitors, and even portable X-Ray machines, we have been at the forefront of healthcare transformation. So it […]
Intel Demonstration of RealSense Cameras for Visual Navigation of Wheeled Autonomous Robots
Roy Karunakaran, Director of Marketing for RealSense at Intel, delivers a product demonstration at the January 2019 Vision Industry and Technology Forum. Specifically, Karunakaran demonstrates the use of the Intel® RealSense™ Cameras T265 and D435 in wheeled autonomous robots. The RealSense Camera T265 is used to enable Visual SLAM, while the D435 enables obstacle avoidance. […]
Intel Introduction to the RealSense Tracking Camera T265
Roy Karunakaran, Director of Marketing for RealSense at Intel, delivers a product demonstration at the January 2019 Vision Industry and Technology Forum. Specifically, Karunakaran introduces the Intel® RealSense™ T265 camera, which provides off-the-shelf tracking capabilities using Visual SLAM (V-SLAM) and can be used in numerous embedded applications, such as robotics, drones and augmented reality. The […]
Introducing INT8 Quantization for Fast CPU Inference Using OpenVINO
This blog post was originally published at Intel's website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Intel. Deep learning framework optimizations and tools that streamline deployment are advancing the adoption of inference applications on Intel® platforms. Reducing model precision is an efficient way to accelerate inference on processors that support low precision math, with […]
Intel Announces New Class of RealSense Stand-Alone Inside-Out Tracking Camera
January 23, 2019 – What’s New: Intel today introduced the Intel® RealSense™ Tracking Camera T265, a new class of stand-alone inside-out tracking device that will provide developers with a powerful building block for autonomous devices, delivering high-performance guidance and navigation. The T265 uses proprietary visual inertial odometry simultaneous localization and mapping (V-SLAM) technology with computing at the edge […]
2018 Vision Product of the Year Award Winner Showcase: Intel (Cameras, Modules, and Sensors)
Intel's RealSense D400 Depth Camera Family (D415 and D435) is the 2018 Vision Product of the Year Award Winner in the Cameras, Modules, and Sensors category. The Intel® RealSense D400 family of Depth cameras and modules brings enhanced 3D perception to more devices and machines that only see 2D today. The D400 family offers turnkey […]
Using Autonomous Vehicle Technology to Make Roads Safer Today
This blog post was originally published at Intel's website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Intel. Technologies Developed for Fully Autonomous Vehicles Can Improve the Advanced Driver Assistance Systems Already in Wide Use Safety has always been our North Star. We view it as a moral imperative to pursue a future with autonomous […]
Great Wall Motors, Mobileye Join Forces to Deliver ADAS and Autonomous Driving Solutions in China and Beyond
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 8, 2019 – At CES 2019, Mobileye, a leading pioneer in advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving (AD), announced it is exploring a strategic collaboration with Great Wall Motors (GWM), a leading domestic automaker in China. As part of the engagement, GWM will look to integrate Mobileye-based ADAS systems ranging […]
Mobileye, Beijing Public Transport Corp. and Beijing Beytai Collaborate to Bring Autonomy to China’s Public Transportation
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 7, 2019 – Today at CES 2019, Mobileye, an Intel company, Beijing Public Transport Corporation* (“BPTC”) and Beijing Beytai* (“Beytai”) announced that they are exploring a collaboration to commercially deploy autonomous public transport services in China. The joint effort marks a significant step in the journey toward a future of smart public […]
Intel’s Framework for Automated Vehicle Safety Standard Gaining Global Acceptance
January 8, 2019-What’s New: European auto technology supplier Valeo* has publicly embraced Intel’s model for safer automated vehicle (AV) decision-making and agreed to collaborate on standards development in Europe and elsewhere. Baidu* reported the first open-source implementation of Responsibility-Sensitive Safety (RSS). And China ITS, the standards body for the world’s largest passenger vehicle market, has […]
Mobileye, Ordnance to Gather and Share Map Data to Manage Infrastructure for Smarter Cities, Safer Roads
January 7, 2019-What’s New: Mobileye, an Intel company, and Ordnance Survey, Great Britain’s national mapping agency, today announced an agreement to bring high-precision location data to U.K. agencies and businesses. Ordnance Survey’s world-leading geospatial and technology expertise will be paired with Mobileye’s automotive camera-based mapping capabilities to offer a new, accurate and customizable location information […]
Intel and Alibaba Team on New AI-Powered 3D Athlete Tracking Technology Aimed at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020
January 7, 2019-What’s New: Intel and Alibaba announced on the eve of CES that the companies are teaming to develop athlete tracking technology powered by artificial intelligence (AI) that is aimed to be deployed at the Olympic Games 2020 and beyond. The technology uses existing and upcoming Intel hardware and Alibaba cloud computing technology to […]
Intel Showcases New Technology for Next Era of Computing
January 7, 2019 – On the eve of CES, Intel leaders – Gregory Bryant, senior vice president, Client Computing Group; Navin Shenoy, executive vice president, Data Center Group; and Professor Amnon Shashua, president and CEO of Mobileye, an Intel company – took to the stage to showcase the company’s commitment to continuously improve the computing and communications […]
Upcoming Intel Workshop Covers Accelerating Smart Video Applications Via OpenVINO Toolkits
On February 12 and 13, 2019 in Sunnyvale, California, Alliance member company Intel will deliver a two-day workshop on its OpenVINO toolkits for computer vision application development. Here's the description, from the event page: Join us for a two-day, hands-on workshop where Intel® will take you through a computer vision workflow using the latest Intel® […]
Intel AI Protects Animals with National Geographic Society, Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation
What’s New: Non-profit RESOLVE’s* new TrailGuard AI* camera uses Intel-powered artificial intelligence (AI) technology to detect poachers entering Africa’s wildlife reserves and alert park rangers in near real-time so poachers can be stopped before killing endangered animals. TrailGuard AI builds on anti-poaching prototypes funded by Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation and National Geographic Society. ”By pairing AI […]
Precision and Recall for Time Series
This blog post was originally published at Intel's website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Intel. The artificial intelligence (AI) revolution is having a profound impact on countless technologies. From automatic identification of our family and friends in social media to ordering up our next movie through voice commands, AI is everywhere. At […]
Intel Software Development Tools Optimize Deep Learning Performance for Healthcare Imaging
This article was originally published at Intel’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Intel. The Deep Learning Deployment Toolkit from Intel helps deliver optimized inferencing on Intel® architecture, helping bring the power of AI to clinical diagnostic scanning and other healthcare workflows Executive Summary Deep learning and other forms of artificial intelligence […]
New Intel RealSense D435i Stereo Depth Camera Adds 6 Degrees of Freedom Tracking
What’s New: Intel today introduced a new addition to the Intel® RealSense™ D400 series: the Intel RealSense Depth Camera D435i. This latest Intel RealSense camera includes a new inertial measurement unit (IMU) that enables developers to create solutions with more advanced depth-sensing and tracking capabilities for applications including drones, robotics and gaming. “Intel RealSense technology […]
Intel Demonstration of Scalable Deep Learning-based Face Detection and Recognition with FPGAs
Richard Chuang, Global Platform Solutions Architect at Intel, delivers a product demonstration at the May 2018 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Chuang demonstrates an end-to-end face detection and recognition reference solution using the OpenVINO toolkit. Four primary algorithms are running in this demo system on top of OpenVINO: face detection, landmark detection, feature extraction, and face […]
Intel Demonstration of High Performance Vision Deployment – The OpenVINO Toolkit in Action
Soren Knudsen, Video and Software Ecosystem Accelerant at Intel, delivers a product demonstration at the May 2018 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Knudsen demonstrates how you can get top performance for vision solutions using Intel’s OpenVINO™ toolkit (open visual inference and neural network optimization), part of the Intel® Vision Products portfolio. View heterogeneous workload performance across […]
Intel Demonstration of Flexible Options to Speed Vision Workloads – A Heterogeneous Approach
Jeffrey McAllister, Technical Consulting Engineer at Intel, delivers a product demonstration at the May 2018 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, McAllister demonstrates how with Intel’s OpenVINO™ toolkit, (open visual inference and neural network optimization), you can boost workload performance with easy heterogeneous execution across multiple types of Intel® platforms (CPU, CPU with integrated graphics, FPGAs, and […]
Intel Demonstration of Deep Learning Inference Performance at the Edge with the OpenVINO Toolkit
Saumya Satish, from the Computer Vision team at Intel, delivers a product demonstration at the May 2018 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Satish discusses how developers can build high performance computer vision applications and integrate deep learning inference with Intel’s OpenVINO™ (open visual inference and neural network optimization) toolkit. The toolkit helps streamline deep learning deployments […]
Intel Demonstration of its RealSense Depth Camera D400 Family
Brian Pruitt, Director of Peripheral Segment at Intel, delivers a product demonstration at the May 2018 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Pruitt provides a quick preview of the latest Intel® RealSense™ Depth Technologies, including touching upon the SDK capabilities. To learn more, please visit http://RealSense.intel.com.
Intel Demonstration of Ultra-Low Power Imaging, Vision and Embedded Neural Networks with the Myriad X VPU
Lucian Vancea, Engineering Manager at Intel, demonstrates the company’s latest embedded vision technologies and products at the May 2018 Embedded Vision Summit. Specifically, Vancea presents two live demonstrations of the Intel® Movidius™ Myriad™ X VPU, and its ability to deliver neural network, computer vision and imaging workloads with high performance, and at ultra-low power. Modern […]
“Rethinking Deep Learning: Neural Compute Stick,” a Presentation from Intel
Ashish Pai, Senior Director in the Neural Compute Program at Intel, presents the “Rethinking Deep Learning: Neural Compute Stick” tutorial at the May 2018 Embedded Vision Summit. In July 2017, Intel released the Movidius Neural Compute Stick (NCS)–a first-of-its-kind USB-based device for rapid prototyping and development of inference applications at the edge. NCS is powered […]
“Enabling Software Developers to Harness FPGA Compute Accelerators,” a Presentation from Intel
Bernhard Friebe, Senior Director of Marketing for the Programmable Solutions Group at Intel, presents the “Enabling Software Developers to Harness FPGA Compute Accelerators” tutorial at the May 2018 Embedded Vision Summit. FPGAs play a critical part in heterogeneous compute platforms as flexible, reprogrammable, multi-function accelerators. They enable custom-hardware performance with the programmability of software. The […]
“Enabling Cross-platform Deep Learning Applications with the Intel CV SDK,” a Presentation from Intel
Yury Gorbachev, Principal Engineer and the Lead Architect for the Computer Vision SDK at Intel, presents the “Enabling Cross-platform Deep Learning Applications with the Intel CV SDK” tutorial at the May 2018 Embedded Vision Summit. Intel offers a wide array of processors for computer vision and deep learning at the edge, including CPUs, GPUs, VPUs […]
“Developing Computer Vision Algorithms for Networked Cameras,” a Presentation from Intel
Dukhwan Kim, computer vision software architect at Intel, presents the “Developing Computer Vision Algorithms for Networked Cameras” tutorial at the May 2018 Embedded Vision Summit. Video analytics is one of the key elements in network cameras. Computer vision capabilities such as pedestrian detection, face detection and recognition and object detection and tracking are necessary for […]
“Balancing Safety, Convenience and Privacy in the Era of Ubiquitous Cameras,” a Presentation from Intel
Charlotte Dryden, Director of the Visual Computing Developer Solutions team at Intel, presents the “Balancing Safety, Convenience and Privacy in the Era of Ubiquitous Cameras” tutorial at the May 2018 Embedded Vision Summit. Computer vision-enabled cameras are proliferating rapidly and will soon be ubiquitous – in, on and around vehicles, homes, toys, stores, public transit, […]
OpenVX Implementations Deliver Robust Computer Vision Applications
Key to the widespread adoption of embedded vision is the ease of developing software that runs efficiently on a diversity of hardware platforms, with high performance, low power consumption and cost-effective system resource needs. In the past, this combination of objectives has been a tall order, since it has historically required significant code optimization for […]
OpenVX Enhancements, Optimization Opportunities Expand Vision Software Development Capabilities
Key to the widespread adoption of embedded vision is the ease of developing software that runs efficiently on a diversity of hardware platforms, with high performance, low power consumption and cost-effective system resource needs. In the past, this combination of objectives has been a tall order, since it has historically required significant code optimization for […]
Intel Delivers Best-in-Class Depth Sensing for Makers, Educators and Developers with Intel RealSense D400 Depth Camera Series
Today, Intel began shipping two new Intel® RealSense™ D400 Depth Cameras from the next-generation Intel RealSense D400 product family: the D415 and D435, adding 3D capabilities to any prototype development or end user-ready device or machine. Ideal for makers and educators as well as hardware prototyping and software development, the new depth cameras come in […]
Intel and Mobileye Offer Formula to Prove Safety of Autonomous Vehicles
Speaking today at the World Knowledge Forum in Seoul, South Korea, professor Amnon Shashua, Mobileye CEO and Intel senior vice president, offered the autonomous driving industry a way to prove the safety of autonomous vehicles. His solution, published in an academic paper and a layman’s summary paper, provides a formal, mathematical formula to ensure that […]
Intel Kick-Starts Mobileye Integration with Plans to Build Fleet of 100 L4 Autonomous Test Cars
With the completion of the tender offer of Mobileye, Intel is poised to accelerate its autonomous driving business from car-to-cloud. Mobileye, an Intel Company, will start building a fleet of fully autonomous (level 4 SAE) vehicles for testing in the United States, Israel and Europe. The first vehicles will be deployed later this year, and […]
“Designing Deep Neural Network Algorithms for Embedded Devices,” a Presentation from Intel
Minje Park, Software Engineering Manager at Intel, presents the "Designing Deep Neural Network Algorithms for Embedded Devices" tutorial at the May 2017 Embedded Vision Summit. Deep neural networks have shown state-of-the-art results in a variety of vision tasks. Although accurate, most of these deep neural networks are computationally intensive, creating challenges for embedded devices. In […]
“Designing Deep Neural Network Algorithms for Embedded Devices,” a Presentation from Intel
Minje Park, Software Engineering Manager at Intel, presents the "Designing Deep Neural Network Algorithms for Embedded Devices" tutorial at the May 2017 Embedded Vision Summit. Deep neural networks have shown state-of-the-art results in a variety of vision tasks. Although accurate, most of these deep neural networks are computationally intensive, creating challenges for embedded devices. In […]
“How Intel’s Latest RealSense Technology Can Help Your Embedded Systems See, Navigate, and Understand the Real World,” a Presentation from Intel
Anders Grunnet-Jepsen, CTO and Director of Advanced Technology in the Perceptual Computing Group at Intel, presents the "How Intel’s Latest RealSense Technology Can Help Your Embedded Systems See, Navigate, and Understand the Real World" tutorial at the May 2017 Embedded Vision Summit. Intel’s latest RealSense technology is specifically designed to enable highly sophisticated, low-cost, small […]
“Vision for All?,” a Presentation from Intel
Jeff McVeigh, Vice President in the Software and Services Group and General Manager of visual computing products at Intel, presents the "Vision for All?" tutorial at the May 2017 Embedded Vision Summit. So, you’ve decided to incorporate visual intelligence into your device or application. Will you need a team of computer vision PhDs working for […]
“Making OpenCV Code Run Fast,” a Presentation from Intel
Vadim Pisarevsky, Software Engineering Manager at Intel, presents the "Making OpenCV Code Run Fast" tutorial at the May 2017 Embedded Vision Summit. OpenCV is the de facto standard framework for computer vision developers, with a 16+ year history, approximately one million lines of code, thousands of algorithms and tens of thousands of unit tests. While […]
“The Battle Between Traditional Algorithms and Deep Learning: The 3 Year Horizon,” a Presentation from Intel’s Movidius Group
Cormac Brick, Director of Machine Intelligence for Intel's Movidius Group, presents the "The Battle Between Traditional Algorithms and Deep Learning: The 3 Year Horizon" tutorial at the May 2017 Embedded Vision Summit. Deep learning techniques are gaining in popularity for many vision tasks. Will they soon dominate every facet of embedded vision? Cormac Brick from […]
Helping Out Reality
This article was originally published at Intel's website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Intel. One day was a summer day like any other summer day. The next, everything had changed. Like swarms, like zombies they came, walking randomly in public places, staring lost into their smart phones, growing increasingly agitated. And then, […]
Vision Processing Opportunities in Virtual Reality
VR (virtual reality) systems are beginning to incorporate practical computer vision techniques, dramatically improving the user experience as well as reducing system cost. This article provides an overview of embedded vision opportunities in virtual reality systems, such as environmental mapping, gesture interface, and eye tracking, along with implementation details. It also introduces an industry alliance […]
Vision Processing Opportunities in Drones
UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles), commonly known as drones, are a rapidly growing market and increasingly leverage embedded vision technology for digital video stabilization, autonomous navigation, and terrain analysis, among other functions. This article reviews drone market sizes and trends, and then discusses embedded vision technology applications in drones, such as image quality optimization, autonomous navigation, […]
“Dataflow: Where Power Budgets Are Won and Lost,” a Presentation from Movidius
Sofiane Yous, Principal Scientist in the machine intelligence group at Movidius, presents the "Dataflow: Where Power Budgets Are Won and Lost" tutorial at the May 2016 Embedded Vision Summit. This presentation showcases stories from the front lines in the battle between power and performance in embedded vision, deep learning and computational imaging applications. First, Youse […]
“Getting from Idea to Product with 3D Vision,” a Presentation from Intel and MathWorks
Anavai Ramesh, Senior Software Engineer at Intel, and Avinash Nehemiah, Product Marketing Manager for Computer Vision at MathWorks, present the "Getting from Idea to Product with 3D Vision" tutorial at the May 2016 Embedded Vision Summit. To safely navigate autonomously, cars, drones and robots need to understand their surroundings in three dimensions. While 3D vision […]
FPGAs for Deep Learning-based Vision Processing
FPGAs have proven to be a compelling solution for solving deep learning problems, particularly when applied to image recognition. The advantage of using FPGAs for deep learning is primarily derived from several factors: their massively parallel architectures, efficient DSP resources, and large amounts of on-chip memory and bandwidth. An illustration of a typical FPGA architecture […]
Deep Learning for Object Recognition: DSP and Specialized Processor Optimizations
Neural networks enable the identification of objects in still and video images with impressive speed and accuracy after an initial training phase. This so-called "deep learning" has been enabled by the combination of the evolution of traditional neural network techniques, with one latest-incarnation example known as a CNN (convolutional neural network), by the steadily increasing […]
“Accelerating Deep Learning Using Altera FPGAs,” a Presentation from Intel
Bill Jenkins, Senior Product Specialist for High Level Design Tools at Intel, presents the "Accelerating Deep Learning Using Altera FPGAs" tutorial at the May 2016 Embedded Vision Summit. While large strides have recently been made in the development of high-performance systems for neural networks based on multi-core technology, significant challenges in power, cost and, performance […]
“Real-world Vision Systems Design: Challenges and Techniques,” a Presentation from Intel
Yury Gorbachev, Principal Engineer at Itseez (now part of Intel), presents the "Real-world Vision Systems Design: Challenges and Techniques" tutorial at the May 2016 Embedded Vision Summit. Computer vision is central to many modern, cool products and technologies, including augmented reality, virtual reality and drones. Thanks to recent advances in system-on-chip and embedded systems design, […]
Movidius Brings Artificial Vision Intelligence to FLIR Systems’ Latest Thermal Imaging Product
FLIR's New Boson™ Thermal Camera Core to Feature Onboard Visual Intelligence Computing Through Custom Implementation of Myriad 2 VPU SAN MATEO, CA–(Marketwired – Apr 18, 2016) – Movidius, the leader in low-power machine vision, today announced a strategic collaboration with FLIR Systems, a global leader in thermal imaging technology, to bring advanced computer vision capabilities […]
Efficient Implementation of Neural Network Systems Built on FPGAs, Programmed with OpenCL
This technical article was originally published at Altera's website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Altera. Deep learning neural network systems currently provide the best solution to many large computing problems for image recognition and natural language processing. Neural networks are inspired by biological systems, in particular the human brain; they use conventional […]
OpenCL Streamlines FPGA Acceleration of Computer Vision
The substantial resources available in modern programmable logic devices, in some cases including embedded processor cores, makes them strong candidates for implementing vision-processing functions. The rapidly maturing OpenCL framework enables the rapid and efficient development of programs that execute across programmable logic fabric and other heterogeneous processing elements within a system. As mentioned in the […]
“OpenCV for Embedded: Lessons Learned,” a Presentation from Intel
Yury Gorbachev, Principal Engineer at Itseez (now part of Intel), presents the "OpenCV for Embedded: Lessons Learned" tutorial at the May 2015 Embedded Vision Summit. OpenCV is the most widely used software component library for computer vision. Initially used mainly for algorithm development and prototyping, in recent years OpenCV has also been used extensively for […]
“Efficient Implementation of Convolutional Neural Networks using OpenCL on FPGAs,” a Presentation From Altera
Deshanand Singh, Director of Software Engineering at Altera, presents the "Efficient Implementation of Convolutional Neural Networks using OpenCL on FPGAs" tutorial at the May 2015 Embedded Vision Summit. Convolutional neural networks (CNN) are becoming increasingly popular in embedded applications such as vision processing and automotive driver assistance systems. The structure of CNN systems is characterized […]
Sorting Out Embedded Vision Systems
This article was originally published on June 10, 2015 at Altera's website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Altera. Papers at this year’s Embedded Vision Summit suggested the vast range of ways that embedded systems can employ focused light as an input, and the even vaster range of algorithms and hardware implementations they […]
Smart Exterior Cameras Enhance Vehicle Safety, Security
This article was originally published at John Day's Automotive Electronics News. It is reprinted here with the permission of JHDay Communications. Cameras installed in various locations around a vehicle exterior, in combination with cost-effective, powerful and energy-efficient processors, deliver numerous convenience and protection benefits. The advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) market is one of the […]
Smart Exterior Cameras Enhance Vehicle Safety, Security
This article was originally published at John Day's Automotive Electronics News. It is reprinted here with the permission of JHDay Communications. Cameras installed in various locations around a vehicle exterior, in combination with cost-effective, powerful and energy-efficient processors, deliver numerous convenience and protection benefits. The advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) market is one of the […]
OpenCL Eases Development of Computer Vision Software for Heterogeneous Processors
OpenCL™, a maturing set of programming languages and APIs from the Khronos Group, enables software developers to efficiently harness the profusion of diverse processing resources in modern SoCs, in an abundance of applications including embedded vision. Computer scientists describe computer vision, the use of digital processing and intelligent algorithms to interpret meaning from still and […]
OpenCL Eases Development of Computer Vision Software for Heterogeneous Processors
OpenCL™, a maturing set of programming languages and APIs from the Khronos Group, enables software developers to efficiently harness the profusion of diverse processing resources in modern SoCs, in an abundance of applications including embedded vision. Computer scientists describe computer vision, the use of digital processing and intelligent algorithms to interpret meaning from still and […]
Complex Trends and Challenges in Designing ADAS Systems
This article was originally published at John Day's Automotive Electronics News. It is reprinted here with the permission of JHDay Communications. By Bob Siller Senior Strategic Marketing Manager, Automotive Altera In the race to develop reliable and cost-effective advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), designers are presented with challenges to integrate functionality, develop scalable platforms and […]
FPGA Programmability and Performance Empower Machine Vision and Surveillance
This is a reprint of an Altera white paper also found here (PDF). Cameras and other equipment used in Surveillance and Machine Vision perform a variety of different tasks, ranging from Image Signal Processing (ISP), Video Transport and Video Format Conversion to Video Compression and Analytics. Video Processing – Today versus Tomorrow The video processing […]