Nvidia was one of the first to go after this area and Qualcomm wants "in" too. There will  be a big scrap for what could be a huge market  for all of these companies.

Kevin Jou Senior Vice President & CTO of MediaTek said that Cloud-based computing provided big data which could train a neural network, but on a device, deep learning enables privacy and instantaneous usability of personalised databases. It can speed up picture search and helps find personal data including payments, pictures and everything else which should not be on the cloud.

Ask Jennifer Lawrence how smart it was to have the nude pictures in the iCloud.

Kevin has confirmed that MediaTek is developing the deep learning SDK that will support multi-corps. We have seen that company's Core Pilot 3.0 scheduler can enable the CPU, GPU, DSP and ISP to  work together.

MediaTek's Chairman and CEO Tsai Ming-kai said that the company has serious IoT and automotive aspirations. You need deep learning to teach a car the difference between a human printed on a piece of paper and the actual human on a street. This is a painful process, but when solved will enable self-driving cars that are promised to hit our streets by 2020, just five years from now.