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Cooper Lake will deliver a 60% increase in AI inferencing and training performance

During a press conference at the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show, Intel gave an update its efforts with respect to its AI and machine learning. The details were a bit hard to come by, but it gave a glimpse at the performance that can be expected from its future Xeon Scalable processor family, codename Cooper Lake. Cooper Lake, which will be available in the first half of 2020, will deliver up to a…
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Microsoft Researchers propose face-swapping AI and face forgery detector

State-of-the-art AI and machine learning algorithms can generate lifelike images of places and objects, but they’re also adept at swapping faces from one person to another — and of spotting sophisticated deepfakes. In a pair of academic papers published by teams at Microsoft Research and Peking University, researchers propose FaceShifter and Face X-Ray, a framework for high-fidelity and…
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Asus debuts new mini PC and hobbyist boards for AI edge computing workloads

Asus hopes to tap into an edge computing market anticipated to be worth $9 billion by 2024. To this end, the Taiwan-based company unveiled a new Mini PC — the PN61T — as well as the Tinker Edge R and Edge T, which were first announced last November. Asus says they’re designed to work in tandem within enterprise environments to enable check-in via facial recognition and automated lighting…
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Ambarella unveils new AI chips for automotive cameras and driver assistance

Chip designer Ambarella has announced two new chips for automotive cameras and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) based on its CVflow architecture for artificial intelligence processing. The Santa Clara, California-based company unveiled the CV22FS and CV2FS automotive camera system-on-chips (SoCs) with CVflow AI processing and ASIL-B compliance to enable safety-critical…
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