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Publisher's Note: With all the talk about Artificial Intelligence, it's surprising how much addresses new software on old hardware, and how very little addresses advances in the chips that will eventually provide the foundation for tomorrow's breakthroughs. 

In this second issue on AI, Intel veteran James Reinders talks with two engineers doing bleeding-edge work on advances in the chip design, packaging, and related areas of innovation that will represent not just the acceleration of AI functions, but also their quality.

A survey released last week suggests that while only a few percent of F500 CIOs have implemented enterprise AI to date, fully 50%+ plan to do so in the immediate future, and almost all surveyed plan the same within a few years. It's time for all of us to come up to speed on the semiconductor side of this march forward. mra.