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- 5G URLLC – Unpredictably Predictable TechnologyBy Asha Keddy Published On September 20, 2019
- Nearly 40 operators have announced 3GPP 5G service launches as of last month, according to the Global Mobile Suppliers Association. This early commercial momentum is exciting. As a leader focused on pathfinding the next cutting-edge technologies at Intel, my team and I are already spearheading the next wave of innovation with a focus on 5G...
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- Edge Computing, the Next Great IT RevolutionBy IT Peer Network Published On September 18, 2019
- Commercial 5G services are no longer a pipe dream. We at Intel have worked with communication service providers (CommSPs) around the world to lay the foundation for a new era of data-centric services, but we have only scratched the surface of what’s possible. The promise of 5G and the rise of computationally-intensive AI applications have...
read more - Building What’s Next: Scaling Complex Deep Learning WorkloadsBy Intel AI Published On September 17, 2019
- The recent advancements in artificial intelligence has been driven by abundant compute, large data sets, and the re-emergence of deep learning (DL) techniques using labeled data to train computers to mimic our human abilities to perceive and classify. Now, we are on the cusp of machines understanding context, enabling a level of common sense that...
read more - Purpose-Built Inference Acceleration Takes AI EverywhereBy Intel AI Published On September 17, 2019
- Inference is where the transformative power of AI meets real-world applications. It’s how a smart speaker recognizes a plethora of different human voices, and how software can examine medical images and find out which indicate cancer, and which don’t. Inference is how retailers can determine which shelves are out of stock or which products customers...
read more - Intel’s Software Optimizations Showcased at Oracle OpenWorldBy Lisa Spelman Published On September 16, 2019
- Intel builds high-performance hardware that moves, stores and processes the world’s data and powers digital services from the cloud to the edge. However, great silicon alone will only get you so far. Hardware needs to partner with optimized software to enable its new features and reveal its full performance potential, delivering maximum value and innovation...
read more - Wi-Fi CERTIFIED 6™ Program launches: Intel products are readyBy Doron Tal Published On September 16, 2019
- A new era of Wi-Fi is here and ready for certification. In support of the biggest leap forward in wireless technology in more than a decade, the Wi-Fi Alliance (WFA) today announced the Wi-Fi CERTIFIED 6 program is now available. As a longtime advocate and active participant in wireless standards and interoperability programs, Intel is...
read more - Wi-Fi CERTIFIED 6™ Program launches: Intel products are readyBy Doron Tal Published On September 16, 2019
- A new era of Wi-Fi is here and ready for certification. In support of the biggest leap forward in wireless technology in more than a decade, the Wi-Fi Alliance (WFA) today announced the Wi-Fi CERTIFIED 6 program is now available. As a longtime advocate and active participant in wireless standards and interoperability programs, Intel is...
read more - #ThePrivacyDebate: Calling for Congress to Act By David Hoffman Published On September 13, 2019
- By David Hoffman, Associate General Counsel and Global Privacy Officer Summer is over and the Congressional recess has passed, yet we still have not seen a federal privacy bill. Partly due to Congress’s slow progress, those who care about privacy are becoming more vocal in calling for action. Yesterday, I had the pleasure of participating...
read more - Global Video Demand Requires New Hardware and Software SolutionsBy Lynn Comp Published On September 13, 2019
- Millions of data centers and telecom towers strategically placed across the planet, over 885,000 kilometers of undersea cable, billions of devices, and nearly all of it in service of one thing: online video. According to Cisco, IP video traffic will be 82 percent of all IP traffic in the world by 2022, increasing by four-fold...
read more - Q8BERT, a Quantized 8bit Version of BERT-BaseBy Intel AI Published On September 12, 2019
- Background Pre-trained transformer language models (GPT, XLNet, XLM, BERT) have demonstrated State-of-the-Art (SOTA) results for a variety of Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks such as sentence classification and sequence tagging, by extracting contextual word representations or by fine-tuning the whole model on a target task. The models are pre-trained on extremely large corpora and result...
read more - Intel Urges Whitehouse OMB to Prioritize Release of Healthcare DataBy Clifton Roberts Published On September 10, 2019
- On July 10th, 2019, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a Request for Information (RFI) to identify “needs for additional access to (or improvements in the quality of) Federal data and models that would improve U.S. artificial intelligence (AI) research and development (R&D) and testing efforts.” Under the February 11, 2019...
read more - NLP Architect: Efficient Training and Optimized Inference of Transformer ModelsBy Intel AI Published On September 10, 2019
- In the past year, we’ve seen major advances in the field of natural language processing (NLP) with the rise of pre-trained language models such as ULMFiT, ELMo, BERT, GPT and RoBERTa. These models were trained on large collections of text and are used for extracting the contextual information of words. They have successfully improved a...
read more - Intel® Optane™ Technology and Dell EMC PowerMax: The Revolution in Enterprise StorageBy Christopher Murphy Published On September 10, 2019
- The next revolution in storage--well it’s like déjà vu all over again. In my 20+ years in data center technologies, and in storage in particular, it can feel like a constant game of chasing the data bottleneck. We solve one challenge, just to move to the next bottleneck in line, and then repeat that process...
read more - Mozilla Shows How Intel-backed Open Source Codecs are Transforming Online VideoBy Craig Hurst Published On September 10, 2019
- At last year’s International Broadcasting Convention, Intel announced efforts to improve widely used codecs. Our initial work focused on Scalable Video Technology (SVT) architecture, an encoder core library that enables multiple codec generations (HEVC, AV1, and VP9). We began work on an SVT-AV1 open source encoder core library, an alternative implementation to the AV1 reference...
read more - IBC2019 Will Be Livestreamed in 8k 360° VRBy Lynn Comp Published On September 10, 2019
- IBC in Amsterdam is the one of the most, if not the most, influential conferences for global media. The new technologies unveiled at the event shape the future of entertainment for years to come. This year, Intel and several partners are coming together to showcase what that future will look like by presenting the first...
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