Intel

Intel makes microprocessors and develops software that helps engineers run machine learning models faster on its CPUs. Its oneAPI Data Analytics Library (oneDAL) can speed up predictions from gradient-boosted decision trees trained on tabular data. Engineers can train a model in XGBoost, LightGBM or CatBoost, then convert a supported model with daal4py, oneDAL’s Python interface. Once converted, models from all three frameworks use the same predict() call on new data. Intel measured faster predictions with this approach in its Xeon CPU benchmarks.

Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore founded Intel in 1968 to build a cheaper semiconductor alternative to magnetic core memory. In 1970, Intel introduced the 1103, a dynamic random-access memory chip. A request from a Japanese calculator maker led Intel into processors. The customer wanted 12 custom logic chips for a line of calculators. Intel’s engineers proposed putting general-purpose logic on a single chip, a design the company introduced in 1971 as the 4004 microprocessor.