My understanding is that part of the appeal of this chip is the power consumption. 100mW is sounds pretty stingy to me, but I'm not terribly knowledgeable eithe

My understanding is that part of the appeal of this chip is the power consumption. 100mW is sounds pretty stingy to me, but I'm not terribly knowledgeable either. So I think they're trading off capability for power consumption by implementing a spiking net rather than a convolutional.