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adevine | 9 years ago

It's that what it actually is? Not familiar with the field, so is "neuromorphic chip design" really "we wired a bunch of GPUs together?"

Don't mean to minimize the work involved, just trying to decipher the marketing speak.

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mrstone|9 years ago

They are a chip architecture that communicates similarly to how neurons do - i.e. spiking behaviours. Makes it easy to approximate some neural systems (such as a neuromorphic retina).

DesiLurker|9 years ago

neuromorphic chips try to mimic human brain's neuronal structure for computing, entirely new paradigm. checkout IBM truNorth architecture.

pzone|9 years ago

I think the point is that even GPUs are suboptimal for neural network computation and we need something more specialized.