Intel Jumps Into Neuromorphic Computing With 'Loihi' Test Chip

[Lucian Armasu]

Intel announced its first neuromorphic test chip, called Loihi, that portends to be 1,000x more efficient than CPUs for training typical systems.

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[Lucky_SLS]

This sure would accelerate the 5v5 openAI in the next Dota TI ^_^

 

[beayn]

Incoming Terminator jokes...

 

[clonazepam]

Terminators? Let's keep soldiers and work on making lawyers obsolete first 😉

 

[Vatharian]

Countdown to "Intel abandons the neuromorphic chips projects"...

 

[kyotokid]

...hmmm, 5,120 CPU cores? Who needs GPUs for rendering?

 

[bit_user]

I wonder if this originated in Nervana or Movidius, or perhaps it was a research project at Intel from before either of those acquisitions.

BTW, although Zeroth initially sounded like a hardware engine, it seems to be a software framework that harnesses Qualcomm's DSP, GPU, and CPU for deep learning. I think Huawei will be the first to ship a dedicated deep learning hardware block in a phone SoC.