Opportunities for stakeholders
This section provides details of the key stakeholders in the landscape who contribute and determine the success and spread of ML on mobile devices. It explores how they contribute to mobile ML and what innovations are being carried out by each of them to increase the acceptance of mobile ML and make it reach far and wide.
Hardware manufacturers
The hardware is the platform that forms the basis for executing ML mobile applications. ML has specific requirements in terms of processing units and memory in order to run the complex ML algorithms. Until recently hardware limitations was one reason that drove the majority of ML processing to be undertaken in backend servers where there are no limits on processing units or memory. But now, most device manufacturers are making groundbreaking innovations that render hardware suitable for running mobile on-device ML applications:
- Apple has already designed and built a neural engine as part of its iPhone X's main chip set...
