“Nobody at Intel knows what to make of this thing,"Very soon we’ll start a new series looking at the story of the development of chips dedicated to accelerating machine learning, with an initial post looking at the origins of Google’s first TPU.But Google’s TPU development, starting in 2013, wasn’t the first project to create dedicated neural network chips. Intel, amongst many others, got there first. Decades earlier, in fact.And reporting on Intel’s first effort was columnist, now turned podcas...