Spiking nets are an academic curiosity. They do not work currently, and might never work. Pretty much zero progress since Carver Mead proposed them in the late

Spiking nets are an academic curiosity. They do not work currently, and might never work. Pretty much zero progress since Carver Mead proposed them in the late 80s. Intel Loihi is a joke, it's a useless product pushed by some exec as a pet project. Considering the mess Intel has been lately, I'm not surprised something like that got approved. Algorithms to successfully perform any practical tasks with spiking nets do not exist yet. We have very little clue how a brain uses spikes. As a general rule, you don't want to build hardware to accelerate something that does not work in software. Source: I worked in a lab where we have built memristor based chips to run spiking nets for image classification and other tasks (my role was developing training algorithms).