Intel’s Neuromorphic System Hits 8 Million Neurons, 100 Million Coming by 2020

Intel’s Neuromorphic System Hits 8 Million Neurons, 100 Million Coming by 2020

  • August 3, 2019
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Intel’s Neuromorphic System Hits 8 Million Neurons, 100 Million Coming by 2020

At the DARPA Electronics Resurgence InitiativeSummit today in Detroit, Intel plans to unveil an 8-million-neuron neuromorphic system comprising 64 Loihi research chips—codenamed Pohoiki Beach. Loihi chips are built with an architecture that more closely matches the way the brain works than do chips designed to do deep learning or other forms of AI. For the set of problems that such “spiking neural networks” are particularly good at, Loihi is about 1,000 times as fast as a CPU and 10,000 times as energy efficient.

The new 64-Loihi system represents the equivalent of 8-million neurons, but that’s just a step to a 768-chip, 100-million-neuron system that the company plans for the end of 2019. Intel and its research partners are just beginning to test what massive neural systems like Pohoiki Beach can do, but so far the evidence points to even greater performance and efficiency, says Mike Davies, director of neuromorphic research at Intel.

Source: ieee.org

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