Intel introduces ultra-efficient AI chips
Intel developed a new neuromorphic hardware to optimize the work of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) community of researchers. The chips can be used in IoT devices and autonomous cars
Pohoiki Beach is a board that combines 8 to 32 chips that are later merged with other boards to create an integral and neuromorphic system that contains 64 chips in total.
The project consists of a constellation of 8 million artificial neurons and is inspired by the architecture of the human brain. Later, Intel hopes to expand the system to 100 million neurons through a program called Pohoiki Springs.
According to Rich Uhlig, director of Intel Labs, the 64-chip computer will be available to the company’s 60 research partners to expand the study and deployment of Artificial Intelligence algorithms for route planning and replacement coding.
Pohoiki Beach is composed of 64 Loihi neuromorphic chips of 14 nanometers (nm) and 128 nuclei. The size of each chip is 60 millimeters and in general, the system consists of more than 2 billion transistors, 130 million synapses, 130,000 artificial neurons and 3 Lakemont cores that manage execution tasks.
In addition, Loihi has a microcode learning engine to train asynchronous neural networks (SNN). Intel is confident that Loihi has a processing capacity that exceeds 1,000 times that of traditional chips or processors.
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