Intel everywhere at Hot Chips

Intel’s was a constant presence at Hot Chips 2017 this week, showing up a number of times to show off Knight’s Mill (the latest offering in its deep learning lineup for data centers) and Scorpio, the latest Xbox GPU as well as to bask in some reflected glory as the CPU and FPGA supplier-of-choice for Microsoft’s ‘Brainwave.' Also in evidence was a quiet little demonstration of Movidius’ Fathom Neural Compute stick, a product that was launched into beta in 2016 and has taken until just last month to emerge as a product. (You can see our analysis of the Movidius