You seriously need to investigate what a cluster#$%! Xeon Phi is. Their attempt to kill NVIDIA was a joke and continues to be one for anyone not getting paid to say otherwise.
IMO if Intel really cared about "shareholder value(tm)" they would have acquired NVIDIA by hook or by crook. Instead, they bought the promising redheaded stepchild Altera.
Meanwhile, NVIDIA owns the ML/Deep Learning space for at least the next 2-3 years no matter what manure Intel tries to fling at them. If only AMD had a decent driver/tools team, this battle could be far more interesting.
That said, 2018 or so and beyond is a green field(tm) if Intel stops choking on its own process and exploits its process advantage to build a GPU killer either as a co-processor or by integrating sufficient multiple AVX units into the cores of its CPU roadmap.
IMO if Intel really cared about "shareholder value(tm)" they would have acquired NVIDIA by hook or by crook. Instead, they bought the promising redheaded stepchild Altera.
Meanwhile, NVIDIA owns the ML/Deep Learning space for at least the next 2-3 years no matter what manure Intel tries to fling at them. If only AMD had a decent driver/tools team, this battle could be far more interesting.
That said, 2018 or so and beyond is a green field(tm) if Intel stops choking on its own process and exploits its process advantage to build a GPU killer either as a co-processor or by integrating sufficient multiple AVX units into the cores of its CPU roadmap.
All IMO of course.