Developed at Intel’s facility in Haifa, Israel, the new chip Nervana NNP-I, a.k.a. Springhill targets the future situation of “AI everywhere.”

Intel designed its latest processor for large computing centers and AI applications. Based on a 10 nm Ice Lake processor, it can take up high workloads with low consumption of energy.

Insight from Israeli AI start-ups

According to Intel, its investments in Israeli AI start-ups such as Habana Labs and NeuroBlade helped development of the new chip, which it said is already being used by Facebook.

Large companies which need to perform complex computations in the AI arena can use the new hardware chip with existing Xeon processors from Intel.

AI everywhere

“In order to reach a future situation of ‘AI everywhere’, we have to deal with huge amounts of data generated and make sure organizations are equipped with what they need to make effective use of the data and process them where they are collected,” said Naveen Rao, general manager of Intel’s artificial intelligence products group.