Google Worked With Intel on a custom AI Chip For Its Pixel Phones (cnbc.com)

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Google Worked With Intel on a custom AI Chip For Its Pixel Phones (cnbc.com)

Posted by msmash on Monday October 23, 2017 @07:51AM from the closer-look dept.

A special-purpose chip for artificial intelligence and other tasks in Google's new Pixel smartphones draws on Intel technology. From a report: In addition to a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 chip, the Google Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL both feature a new custom Pixel Visual Core co-processor, which is meant to improve speed and battery life when shooting photos with Google's HDR+ technology, and better handle AI workloads in apps, Google has said. But the company didn't disclose details about its partners on the chip. Then, last week, device repair website iFixit published a teardown of the Pixel 2 XL that showed what the Pixel Visual Core chip actually looks like. The serial number on the chip in a photograph begins with "SR3," like some Intel chips. Google confirmed the connection. "Google built Pixel Visual Core with Intel," the Google spokesperson wrote in an email to CNBC. "Pixel Visual Core is a custom designed processor from Google, built to serve specific computational photography requirements that could not be met by existing chips."

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Poor Eith Intel! by SuperKendall · 2017-10-23 07:54 · Score: 2

I can just imagine poor Eith, probably "worked" with a pipe wrench until she literally coughed up the chip Google was seeking.

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Re:With by OnceWas · 2017-10-23 08:02 · Score: 2

Or maybe it was Eithernet.

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Re:With by sysrammer · 2017-10-23 08:07 · Score: 4, Funny

Come on, guys, make up your mind, it's either won or the otter.

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Arthur Two Sheds Jackson by grungeman · 2017-10-23 08:14 · Score: 4, Funny

Forgive me for being old fashined, but the replies to the article remind me in a wonderful way of this Monty Python classic (of course eith Eric Idle and Terry Jones):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

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So a D.igital S.ignal P.rocessor chip. by Fly+Swatter · 2017-10-23 08:18 · Score: 2

How '90s. How does AI fit into this again ?
1. Re:So a D.igital S.ignal P.rocessor chip. by StreamingEagle · 2017-10-23 08:32 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  Similar, but different. Intel bought Movidius, which designed this chip (the Myriad X). Initially it was for visual processing (computer vision), but it morphed into being optimized for neural network inference (AI).
Re:With by Enigma2175 · 2017-10-23 08:45 · Score: 2

If you jackasses don't edit anything, quit calling yourselves "editors". "Slashdot monkeys" or "Slashvertisement facilitators" would be more appropriate.

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Alternative summary by 93+Escort+Wagon · 2017-10-23 09:15 · Score: 2

"Intel pleads with the tech community to please consider them still relevant"

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