IBM's new do-it-all AI chip: The company says its chip can do both high-precision learning and low-precision inference across the three main flavors of deep learning - [News]

The field of deep learning is still in flux, but experts now recognize that neural nets can maximize computation with minimal energy if a chip uses low-precision math to estimate answers. That's especially useful in mobile and other power-constrained devices. But some tasks, such as training a neural net, still need precision. IBM recently revealed a prototype chip at the IEEE VLSI Symposia that does both equally well.