FPGAs for AI? GPUs and CPUs are the future, shrugs drone biz Insitu

FPGAs for AI? GPUs and CPUs are the future, shrugs drone biz Insitu

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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/29/insitu_ai_machine_learning/

Interview "It's just too hard to maintain all of those threads," eye-in-the-sky drone firm Insitu told The Register, explaining its move away from FPGAs to commercial off-the-shelf compute hardware for its AI and machine learning tech.

The firm's chief growth officer, Jon Damush, was answering our questions about the tech underneath the bonnet, so to speak. We know all about the aeronautical hardware but what's the state of play with its real special sauce, its image analysis software?