“This acquisition advances our AI strategy, which is to provide customers with solutions to fit every performance need – from the intelligent edge to the data center,” mentioned Navin Shenoy, government vp and common supervisor of the Data Platforms Group at Intel. “More specifically, Habana turbo-charges our AI offerings for the data center with a high-performance training processor family and a standards-based programming environment to address evolving AI workloads.”
Intel’s AI technique is grounded within the perception that harnessing the ability of AI to enhance enterprise outcomes requires a broad mixture of expertise – {hardware} and software program – and full ecosystem assist. Today, Intel AI options are serving to clients flip information into enterprise worth and driving significant income for the corporate. In 2019, Intel expects to generate over $3.5 billion in AI-driven income, up greater than 20 % year-over-year. Together, Intel and Habana can speed up the supply of best-in-class AI merchandise for the information heart, addressing clients’ evolving wants.
Shenoy continued: “We know that customers are looking for ease of programmability with purpose-built AI solutions, as well as superior, scalable performance on a wide variety of workloads and neural network topologies. That’s why we’re thrilled to have an AI team of Habana’s caliber with a proven track record of execution joining Intel. Our combined IP and expertise will deliver unmatched computing performance and efficiency for AI workloads in the data center.”
Habana will stay an impartial enterprise unit and can proceed to be led by its present administration staff. Habana will report back to Intel’s Data Platforms Group, house to Intel’s broad portfolio of information heart class AI applied sciences. This mixture provides Habana entry to Intel AI capabilities, together with vital sources constructed over the past three years with deep experience in AI software program, algorithms and analysis that can assist Habana scale and speed up.
Habana chairman Avigdor Willenz has agreed to function a senior adviser to the enterprise unit in addition to to Intel. Habana will proceed to be primarily based in Israel the place Intel additionally has a major presence and lengthy historical past of funding. Prior to this transaction, Intel Capital was an investor in Habana.
“We have been fortunate to get to know and collaborate with Intel given its investment in Habana, and we’re thrilled to be officially joining the team,” mentioned David Dahan, CEO of Habana. “Intel has created a world-class AI team and capability. We are excited to partner with Intel to accelerate and scale our business. Together, we will deliver our customers more AI innovation, faster.”
Going ahead, Intel plans to take full benefit of its rising portfolio of AI expertise and expertise to ship clients unmatched computing efficiency and effectivity for AI workloads.
Habana’s AI Training and Inference Products
Habana’s Gaudi AI Training Processor is presently sampling with choose hyperscale clients. Large-node coaching methods primarily based on Gaudi are anticipated to ship as much as a 4x enhance in throughput versus methods constructed with the equal variety of GPUs. Gaudi is designed for environment friendly and versatile system scale-up and scale-out.
Additionally, Habana’s Goya AI Inference Processor, which is commercially obtainable, has demonstrated wonderful inference efficiency together with throughput and real-time latency in a extremely aggressive energy envelope. Gaudi for coaching and Goya for inference provide a wealthy, easy-to-program growth surroundings to assist clients deploy and differentiate their…
