Microsoft releases CNTK, its open source deep learning toolkit, on GitHub
<a href="https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2013/avx-512-instructions" rel="nofollow">https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2013/avx-512-instruct...</a><p>"...Worry about scaling; worry about vectorization; worry about data locality...." <a href="http://www.hpcwire.com/2016/01/21/conversation-james-reinder.." rel="nofollow">http://www.hpcwire.com/2016/01/21/conversation-james-reinder...</a>.
<a href="http://www.hpcwire.com/2016/01/21/conversation-james-reinders/" rel="nofollow">http://www.hpcwire.com/2016/01/21/conversation-james-reinder...</a><p>Nvidia Chief Scientist for Deep Learning was poached from Intel 
<a href="https://il.linkedin.com/in/boris-ginsburg-2249545?trk=pub-pbmap" rel="nofollow">https://il.linkedin.com/in/boris-ginsburg-2249545?trk=pub-pb...</a><p><a href="http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~wolf/deeplearningmeeting/speaker.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~wolf/deeplearningmeeting/speaker.ht...</a><p>AVX-512 instructions <a href="https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2013/avx-512-instructions" rel="nofollow">https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2013/avx-512-instruct...</a><p>Look for quote: 
"...In a very interesting admission, LeCun told The Next Platform ..." <a href="http://www.nextplatform.com/2015/08/25/a-glimpse-into-the-future-of-deep-learning-hardware/" rel="nofollow">http://www.nextplatform.com/2015/08/25/a-glimpse-into-the-fu...</a><p>Yann LeCun states on Nov 2015 (29:00 min mark) GPU's short lived in Deep Learning / CNN / NN <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7TUU94ir38" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7TUU94ir38</a><p><a href="https://www.altera.com/en_US/pdfs/literature/solution-sheets/efficient_neural_networks.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.altera.com/en_US/pdfs/literature/solution-sheets...</a><p><a href="http://icri-ci.technion.ac.il/events-2/presentation-files-icri-ci-retreat-5-6-may-2015/" rel="nofollow">http://icri-ci.technion.ac.il/events-2/presentation-files-ic...</a><p><a href="http://icri-ci.technion.ac.il/files/2015/05/00-Boris-Ginzburg-1505051.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://icri-ci.technion.ac.il/files/2015/05/00-Boris-Ginzbur...</a>