Intel Loihi

[Sniperfox47]

17 minutes ago, Nicnac said:

how do you even pronounce that?

It's Lōʻihi after the volcanic volcanic mountain near Hawaii. So if I read it correctly it's along the lines of low-eye-hee.

[NumLock21]

Ibm truenorth

 

 

Intel's Loihi is hardly the first such neuromorphic computing chip to enter the market. The concept, coined by Carver Mead in 1980, was first taken up by universities (as early as 2006 in Georgia Tech), and has since been picked up by companies such as IBM. IBM's own TrueNorth neuromorphic CMOS integrated circuit (described as a many-core network processor on a chip) features a grand total of 4,096 cores. And it powers all of those with just 70 milliwatts of power, or about about 1/10,000th the power density of conventional microprocessors. Each of these cores simulates 256 artificial, programmable silicon "neurons" for a total of just over a million neurons. In turn, each neuron has 256 programmable "synapses" that convey the signals between them, which brings the total number of programmable synapses is just over 268 million. That's still a far-cry for yours truly mankind's average of 84 billion neurons, though

 

https://www.techpowerup.com/237345/intel-introduces-neuromorphic-self-learning-chip-codenamed-loihi

 

 

[Sniperfox47]

33 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

Just want to point out, for anyone who didn't follow TrueNorth when it was announced, that this is actually 16 TrueNorth chips on a control board since they're completely scalable.

 

IBMs demo was a system of 48 of them (on different type of control board) wired together to give roughly the processing power of a rodent brain.

 

Unless they're using a radically different neuromorphic design, Intel's Loihi should also scale incredibly well even across multiple chips.

[Dylanc1500]

4 hours ago, Sniperfox47 said:

Just want to point out, for anyone who didn't follow TrueNorth when it was announced, that this is actually 16 TrueNorth chips on a control board since they're completely scalable.

 

IBMs demo was a system of 48 of them (on different type of control board) wired together to give roughly the processing power of a rodent brain.

 

Unless they're using a radically different neuromorphic design, Intel's Loihi should also scale incredibly well even across multiple chips.

Once again IBM was ahead of the game but nobody knew it because  they aren't Intel, AMD or NVidia.

 

Question is how long till AMD or Intel copy 4-way or 8-way multi-threading and everyone goes WOAH!!!