Google Worked With Intel on a custom AI Chip For Its Pixel Phones (cnbc.com) 73
A special-purpose chip for artificial intelligence and other tasks in Google's new Pixel smartphones draws on Intel technology. From a report: In addition to a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 chip, the Google Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL both feature a new custom Pixel Visual Core co-processor, which is meant to improve speed and battery life when shooting photos with Google's HDR+ technology, and better handle AI workloads in apps, Google has said. But the company didn't disclose details about its partners on the chip. Then, last week, device repair website iFixit published a teardown of the Pixel 2 XL that showed what the Pixel Visual Core chip actually looks like. The serial number on the chip in a photograph begins with "SR3," like some Intel chips. Google confirmed the connection. "Google built Pixel Visual Core with Intel," the Google spokesperson wrote in an email to CNBC. "Pixel Visual Core is a custom designed processor from Google, built to serve specific computational photography requirements that could not be met by existing chips."
With (Score:1)
Should the title say "With" instead of "Eith"?
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No it was meant to be Eigth. msmash forgot the ‘G.’
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Or maybe it was Eithernet.
Re:With (Score:5, Funny)
Come on, guys, make up your mind, it's either won or the otter.
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For all intensive purposes?
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...I am, if he can't tow the line.
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If you jackasses don't edit anything, quit calling yourselves "editors". "Slashdot monkeys" or "Slashvertisement facilitators" would be more appropriate.
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It's one of those AI generated Slashdot titles, I'm betting.
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I give way more credence to the idea that AI wasn't involved at all, as there is very little intelligence shown :-P
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I give way more credence to the idea that AI wasn't involved at all, as there is very little intelligence shown :-P
But a mere human would have proofread his or her work before posting to a gazillion readers?
Surely?
Artificial Stupidity (Score:2)
We may not yet have solved the AI problem but AS seems to be a solved problem
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We may not yet have solved the AI problem but AS seems to be a solved problem
Well, we're halfway there now! In another twenty years, we'll be halfway there again! It'll be like deja vu all over again.
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Poor Eith Intel! (Score:3)
I can just imagine poor Eith, probably "worked" with a pipe wrench until she literally coughed up the chip Google was seeking.
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Clearly it is Edith.
I never knew she remarried. I wonder if Mr. Intel called her a dingbat and sent her off to the kitchen to get him a beer too.
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*That's* why the Pixel doesn't have a cape!
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"Pipe wench", you mean.
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She probably shouldn't have swallowed the chip in the first place. All those pins, really couldn't have been pleasant going in either direction.
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Good ole Slashdot editors. Just as incompetent as ever.
To be honest, this is a new low. Can't remember seeing a misspelling in a headline, particularly of an extremely common 4 letter word that isn't a homonym with anything.
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Eh, "eith" got us to comment on TFA. Otherwise I wouldn't have been interested. But I was curious what the buzzword-bingo word-salad actually meant.
So, a "win" for TFEs.
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this headline powered by intel(r) pentium(tm)
I rate this comment 4.9999018484672282 stars.
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Aight
Not the Eith... (Score:2)
Google Worked Eith Intel on a custom AI Chip For Its Pixel Phones
What is the rule for capitalizing "For" and "Its" but not "on", "a", "custom"?
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Yah, I noticed The inconsistency. That, my friend, was the frosting on the quake.
Arthur Two Sheds Jackson (Score:5, Funny)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
So a D.igital S.ignal P.rocessor chip. (Score:3)
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. . . but it morphed into being optimized for neural network inference (AI).
Gee, and here I was, thinking that the next NSA Vault 7 dumps would reveal that the chip morphed into being an embedded cell phone spy tool for the NSA, FBI, CIA and the Nuclear Boy Scouts of America.
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Not to be a pedant but Vault 7 was the CIA.
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Well, it is sort of, but it will be a new gizmo, a shoe phone. It goes everywhere with you and you don't have worry about it falling out of your pocket or using a belt clip.
AI Slashdot Headline Generator (Score:2)
Requires more training.
We need AI for Slashdot headlines (Score:2)
An AI would never allow a headline with such a typo. [slashdot.org]
Alternative summary (Score:3)
"Intel pleads with the tech community to please consider them still relevant"
OMG (Score:2)
a company wanted to develop a hardware solution, and went to a hardware developer
HOLY FUCKBALLS!
Movidius chip? (Score:2)
Furby toy has AI (Score:1)