Facebook is working with Intel to improve its upcoming Copper Lake processors. The company is helping Intel add a touch of deep learning to the Copper Lake processors to improve the performance.

Facebook is working with Intel on something called as Bfloat 16. Bfloat 16 is a 16-bit floating point representation that improves the performance by offering the same dynamic range and can be used to accelerate artificial intelligence training models. This acceleration model can be used to improve the performance by optimizing workloads such as speech recognition, image classification, recommendation engines, and machine translation. Intel is expected to release the Copper Lake processors later this year. Companies like Dell, HP, Hyve Solutions, Lenovo, Quanta, Supermicro, Wiwynn, and ZT Systems are expected to showcase servers based on the reference design later this year.

Via: IT News