I don't believe they need chips.....they would be using off the shelf tech most likely.
What they need is the code for the off the shelf chips.....that's where the Intel bit comes in. They use the code to make the off the shelf chips do things they don't otherwise do and work in ways they haven't previously worked. Code access is fairly easy to get once you prove you have a legitimate purpose and have certain safeguards in place to protect the information they pass across. Guess it's like a pass to the members room at the MCG.
You need to remember that computers are very simple machines that really only have two choices to make a decision from (on or off)......the only things that make a super computer 'super' is the ability to make lots of on/off decisions at the same time (and quickly). Having the code for the Intel chips just allows programmers to ask the chips to answer questions in a way that suits them (still on/off answers though)
So what's this AI thing you ask......in very simple terms it basically means that when making the on/off decision the computer looks at what the outcome of the decision it made previously was. If it was a positive outcome then it will make that decision again.....if the outcome of that decision then changes to a negative it will make the opposite decision next time, etc. AI (artificial intelligence) is merely the computer looking at what it has done previously and working out what the best option is for the future.....it learns from it's own previously stored data.
What Edgify assisted with was the ability for individual computers to not only use their own data to make a decision, it also allowed computers to ask other computers what their decision should be. Basically a network of computers that all make decisions about the same thing asking each other how their last decision worked out before they make their own decision (hope that makes sense)......think of it like an after game chat in the basketball changerooms talking about plays that were made that day.......people say what they did and how it worked out, people then make decisions based on the outcome of the play for the next weeks game. "Do we make the same play next week or do we change it"?
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