Fujitsu joins the deep-learning stampede with specialized silicon
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Nvidia's revenues, profits, and share price have all benefited from surging demand in both the PC gaming hardware and the graphics compute marketplaces. The company could potentially face growing competition in deep learning from rival AMD's Vega graphics chips, the Radeon Instinct family, and the company's ROCm platform, but the AI jockeying doesn't stop there. Intel is working on its own Lake Crest chips, and Google is working on its Tensor Processing Units.
Fujitsu is now throwing its hat into the deep-learning ring, as well. The Japanese server and supercomputer manufacturer announced its intention to build a Deep Learning Unit (DLU) AI processor before the end of its fiscal 2018 (running from April 2018 ...