Stefan Mileschin

Neuromorphic brain-based computer and that is the long and tall of it

Intel released the newest iteration of its neuromorphic hardware, called Loihi which means “long” or “tall” in Hawaiian.

The new release comes with a better processor and some basic computational enhancements, but some fundamental hardware changes that will allow it to run entirely new classes of algorithms.

Intel is also releasing a compiler that it hopes will drive wider adoption.

The chip is based on the human brain. The last generation had 128 individual cores connected by a communication network. Each of those cores has a large number of individual "neurons," or execution units. Each of these neurons can receive input in the form of spikes from any other neuron—a neighbour in the same core, a unit in a different core on the same chip or another chip. The”neuron” integrates the spikes it receives over time and, based on the behaviour it's programmed with, uses that to determine when to send spikes of its own to whatever neurons it's connected with.

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