Interesting. I remember the i860 getting a lot of press during that era (maybe just a bit later) as an alternative architecture for Intel (that also didn't end

Interesting. I remember the i860 getting a lot of press during that era (maybe just a bit later) as an alternative architecture for Intel (that also didn't end up going anywhere). I don't recall hearing anything about this 80170 chip. Back in 1990 I worked for an ASIC company and there was a local startup here in Oregon near Intel called Adaptive Solutions [1] that was working on a NN chip called CNAPS[2] - they were coming to us to fab it. They only lasted about 5 years IIRC before going under. [1] The founder was Dan Hammerstrom now at Portland State University https://www.pdx.edu/profile/dan-hammerstrom https://www.pdx.edu/profile/dan-hammerstrom [2] Back Propagation Implementation on the Adaptive Solutions CNAPS Neurocomputer Chip https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/1990/file/beed13602b9b0e6ecb5b568ff5058f07-Paper.pdf https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/1990/file/beed13602b9b0...