(The technical name for this is TensorFlow Lite, which puts
machine learning tasks on the phone, so the device can instantly take care of the job in real time, rather than ping the cloud and wait for a response.)
There's no doubt Huawei will be talking up the AI potential of the new P20, P20 Plus and P20 Lite too — the Kirin 970 is specially engineered to better deal with the kind
of machine learning tasks required for mobile AI.
It tears through
machine learning tasks at up to 600 billion operations per second and is the driving force behind innovative new features like Face ID and Animoji.
App creators can have
machine learning tasks run on your PC instead of the cloud, and draw on hardware acceleration from processors and graphics chips (including from AMD, Intel, NVIDIA and Qualcomm).
There's a new Apple - designed 3 - core GPU that's 30 percent faster than the previous - generation GPU, and two of the cores, the Neural Engine,
make machine learning tasks faster than ever.
Urs Hölzle, Google's senior vice president of technical infrastructure, said that the new microchip, called the Tensor Processing Unit, is built to handle a variety
of machine learning tasks, but is not intended to replace more conventional computer chips like CPUs and GPUs.
The Pixel Visual Core will also handle complex imaging and
machine learning tasks related to the camera, which could come to include auto image adjustments based on the scene, among other uses.
And the biggest cloud data center companies, including Amazon (amzn) and Microsoft (msft), are filling up more racks with GPUs as customers seek to run the kinds of artificial intelligence and
machine learning tasks that thrive on the graphics processing architecture.
While the new Volta V100 chip is two to six times faster than competing chips on
some machine learning tasks, with the addition of the new TensorRT3 compiler for software, the set up is 40 to 140 times faster.
The Helio P60 does offer some specialized hardware that's twice as efficient as a GPU at
machine learning tasks, and we will hopefully take a closer look at it soon.
The Pixel Visual Core will also handle complex imaging and
machine learning tasks related to the camera.
The Storm Market platform also will include two new categories: Storm Shop, a category that allows shoppers to earn cryptocurrency rewards for everyday purchases, and Storm Gigs, which leverages the gig economy by rewarding users with cryptocurrency for completing specific tasks such as QA Testing and
Machine Learning tasks.
Apple's future iPhones are also expected to arrive with its own Neural Engine processor to handle these kinds of
machine learning tasks.