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They likely do this in order to avoid competition and comparisons.
by IncRnd 9y ago
They likely do this in order to avoid competition and comparisons.
- aurelian15 9y agoNah. There are legitimate reasons for doing this. Especially when spiking neurons are implemented using analogue circuits (which I could find no indication of in the press release however, but see [1,2,3,4] for examples) spiking neurons offer significant advantages, such as extremely low power consumption, intrinsic dynamics, and asynchronicity (which again, reduces power consumption by not requiring clocks). [1] https://brainscales.kip.uni-heidelberg.de/ https://brainscales.kip.uni-heidelberg.de/ [2] http://www.kip.uni-heidelberg.de/vision/spikey/ http://www.kip.uni-heidelberg.de/vision/spikey/ [3] https://web.stanford.edu/group/brainsinsilicon/neurogrid.html https://web.stanford.edu/group/brainsinsilicon/neurogrid.htm... [4] http://ncs.ethz.ch/ http://ncs.ethz.ch/
- shard 9y agoI was looking for clarification as to whether the neurons are implemented as analog circuits as well, especially with the reference to Dr. Carver Mead in the beginning of the article, who has a long history of working on analog neuron circuits, but I did not see any explicit references to whether the neurons were digital or analog.
- IncRnd 9y agoThank you!
- baq 9y agointel is not a charity. if they do something, they either have a customer lined up or they think there's money on the table in the market, just as it should be. bragging rights are low cash flow.
- IncRnd 9y agoI didn't mention bragging rights. Your comment supports what I wrote.